MY THAILAND FENCEPOST FLUENCY PROJECT

Let me tell you why I'M not teaching in Korea at the moment. You see, I've started a project here in Thailand called 'The Fluent Fence Post' project. I have gathered about 50 fence posts together (about the same size as my classes of Thai students) to see if I can get them to the same level of fluency as that of my Thai seniors.

Here is what I've found so far:

Fence posts don't cheat on homework. Just like my Thai students, my fence posts won't do homework in the first place even when they're told to do it hundreds of times. So it's all good.

Fence posts don't bring dicitionaries, pens, pencils, notebooks, et. al to class even after being asked hundreds of times. This is fine....neither do my Thai students.

Fence posts are a LOT quieter in the classroom, so all the posts are able to hear what any individual post says. However, fence posts won't even try to speak or practice English,I'm discovering. Again, this is not a problem, as neither do my Thai students.

My fence posts should achieve the same level of fluency as my Thai students after only one year. Considering my Thai students aren't fluent after TEN years studying English, this should easily be achieved.

I predict no one will care, ultimately, that my fence posts will not become fluent. Not to worry, however. My Thai students' parents don't care one iota that their kids have been in English classes 6, 7, 8, and even TEN years and still can't even use pronouns!

Who needs Korea when one can engage in such an exciting project?

I'll keep you updated on progress from time to time.

RhenoThai