TAG : Stealing From Teachers
Full-time teacher, part-time thief
Light-fingered shenanigans in the teachers' room
In Blogs: Phil Roeland - 1st August 2007
Don’t start thinking that these highly skilled education professionals resort to stealing luxury cars or become successful pickpockets in busy Bangkok. It’s much simpler and a lot less lucrative than that: some ‘teachers’ seem to think there’s nothing wrong with nicking books and teaching materials from the schools they work at. In a few cases teachers have even run off with computers, but let’s focus on the issue of disappearing books because that’s my main reason for writing this article.
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