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Do teachers get drug tested when hired?
Posted: Sun Dec 02, 2012 7:14 pm
by Elwood
I have been teaching for 5 years now and I am thinking about going international. Do schools drug test new hires?
Specifically, American Schools.
Thanks
Posted: Sun Dec 02, 2012 8:43 pm
by durianfan
I think it depends on the country, not necessarily the school. China and Korea for sure do drug tests.
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Posted: Sun Dec 02, 2012 9:25 pm
by PsyGuy
Yes schools do drug tests, either because they are required from a government agency or because the school wants to get rid of some teachers. It's more common in Asia, including Thailand, China, Korea, Taiwan, and Singapore. When a school chooses to do its usually near the end of the year.
Posted: Sun Dec 02, 2012 11:41 pm
by mysharona
Nine years teaching in China and yet to be drug tested.
Posted: Sun Dec 02, 2012 11:48 pm
by sangster2
I have never been drug tested by a school but I know a friend in Germany said it is done there.
Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2012 10:08 am
by Yantantether
'Yes schools do drug tests, either because they are required from a government agency or because the school wants to get rid of some teachers. It's more common in Asia, including Thailand, China, Korea, Taiwan, and Singapore. When a school chooses to do its usually near the end of the year.'
'Nine years teaching in China and yet to be drug tested.'
More sensationalist gossip-mongering nonsense from WhyGuy? It is NOT more common in any of the schools in Thailand either! He's basing this solely from someone who's school was (supposedly) tested and posted this on here. I've never heard this happen anywhere else in Thailand, and it is HIGHLY unlikely (though, never say never).
I really wish he would take a sabbatical - for a decade or two!
Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2012 10:39 am
by senator
10 years in China and Malaysia and never drug tested.
Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2012 12:53 pm
by mathgym
4 years in Thailand, never been drug tested.
Clarification
Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2012 1:26 pm
by PsyGuy
No, I base my posts on actual experiences or from those reported from trusted sources.
BIS (Phuket), in June 2012 drug tested their teachers and terminated 10 of them. You can Google the report/story.
To clarify, its more common in some parts of Asia, but overall its a very uncommon event. You could go your entire career and never get drug trusted, it does however happen (and I PERSONALLY know it happens in HK)
Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2012 1:28 pm
by Glerky
It happened to me in the Middle East and it was the school not the country that did it before I arrived.