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I have long been donating money to worthy causes, but sometimes it just seems too easy to donate money and then forget about what it is that I am doing. It’s as if the money is more important than anything else and I think that’s wrong.

In fact, I have begun donating my time towards worthy causes in addition to donating money. I think it is good to put your money where your mouth is, but it is also important to put your action behind your ideas. If you spend all your time in thought and make other people put things into acting, you are ignoring your own power to help change things. That change comes from doing and that means donating your time.

One of the things you must be vigilant on when you are both a parent and a TEFL teacher is unscrupulous schools. In some locations, it can be tough to find a school that you can afford to send your children to. Public schools can be out of the question for non-local kids and international schools can be prohibitively high.

In this void, there are sometimes school that spring up. When these schools are registered with the local government, they can be a Godsend for parents, but what happens when these schools exist solely to take money from parents and don’t deliver a quality education to the students? It’s a travesty.

In Thailand, foreign students are not allowed to study at public schools and they have to pay higher rates to study in private schools. Education expenses can make it difficult to teach English abroad if you have kids.

Right now there is a developing story on TEFLWatch where accusations are being thrown around about Faith Christian Academy in Thailand. There are those who are saying that the school is not legally registered and is operating illegally. I hope that this isn’t true and would hope that the school would quickly prove to everyone that they are legal. We need quality education for our kids, not carpetbaggers trying to take advantage of a tough situation.