The school owners are a little shifty, and cheap when it comes to money being put back into the school. Conditions for the students could and should be much better for the amount of money the parents have to pay. Every classroom should have a TV, but doesn't. The few TVs that are in the rooms were donated by parents. Parents are called on to donate things which the Holley's should be supplying. The Holleys are very good at crying poverty, and about how their school is always in the red. Point of fact though is that anyone who is going to run a buisness for 8 years in the red has got to be cracked in the head or lying. If they are having financial problems why the hell don't they sell their imported foreign cars.
Students are upbeat and positive like highschool students the world over. They could probably survive anywhere, but I think they all harbour resentment of sorts over the amount of money they have to pay for dilapidated buildings and their very limited playing facilities.
The teachers are excellent, and give their best. The administration though sucks to high hell. Present highschool principal has no clue when it comes to administration. Most people think he has his head up his arse. He was a teacher, but got bumped up to being head adminstrator. Rest of the senior staff tried to help him, but he wanted to go it his way. He subsequently alienated the rest of the staff by ignoring the help offered to him, and is now the butt of jokes from the the rest of the student body and staff.
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The pedophile Christopher Paul Neil was a teacher at Gwangju foreign school for a short time. He behaved no different than any other teacher at the school, nor did he dress different from any other teacher at the school. He was generally liked by both the other teachers and the students. Nothing he did gave anyone an indication of the things he was accused of. Gees. He loved to sing at karaokes, talk and drink. Just a normal guy from all outward appearances. One of the pictures on the interpol site was a dead ringer for him, but the others I dunno. He sure has put Gwangju Foreign School on the map, for what it's worth. The newspapers had already checked the school homepage to confirm that he was staff, so there was no point in the school trying to remove his profile. Other media outlets picked up on this and made a mockery of the school for doing so.
Too bad the other schools in Korea where he taught were mum about him. Would have given everyone more insight into what made him tick
Other reports say he was hung out to dry, because Interpol made a big thing about him and the unswirling of his face. Thai police have stated that there are pedophiles out and about who have commited worse things than he has, but that they had to focus on him because of the media attention and publicity. http://64.233.169.104/search?q=cache:HpthnFlM570J:www.parisangel.com/BSYS1000eportfolio/BSYS1000word.docx+gwangju+Foreign+school&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=120&gl=us
The school was inundated with News media chasing the story of Christopher Paul Neil, and It was felt necessary to bolt the doors to keep reporters out.
http://www.daylife.com/photo/0dih6tt6ZYdFR/gwangju
The news articles coming from Gwangju Foreign school were quoted as coming from Mrs Myoung. Now there is no Mrs Myoung working for Gwangju Foreign school.Myoung is the maiden name of Mrs Holley and it was she who was doing all the public relations work with the newspapers. Find that strange that she would not use her real name when being quoted. Another Korean duplicity thing.
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When I was there I read a memo left by a Princeton Asia teacher for the new incoming Princeton Asia teacher. It was disparaging, and tore the Holley's to shreds. How anyone can run a buisness with that kind of reputation, and sleep peacefully at night sure beats me.
Maybe it was a good thing Christopher Neil was there. Subtle psychological payeback time for all the Holleys dishonest shennanigans methinks
I can't believe that the school principal didn't give a comment to the news when they called him. The school where CPN worked in Thailand were very professional, and described his performance, and relationship with the students. The Gwangju principal Mr Lynn didn't offer any constructive info at all. He came across like a f-----g moron.
Current school principal Mr Lyn leaves a lot to be desired. He has no experience in a public school environment and yet is running an International school. Holleys are too cheap to recruit a capable and competent administrator, so they take short cuts, and hire someone already there whom they think might be suitable. Down side is that someone whom has never been in a proper school setting and whom is appointed as the principal will have no dea whatsoever about the day to day operations of a school.
Unfortunately for Gwangju Foreign school Mr Lyn isn't willing to accept another persons point of view. His way is the only way(very dogmatic). Running a school with that kind of an attitude is heading for disaster with oneself and with every other staff member.
It's also an indication of his general incompetence, and a lack of maturity
CPN(Christopher Paul Neil) was very much at home in Asia. He could blend in easily, on his own and not cause any discomfort among the local ethnic people. Most westerners stick out like a sore thumb in the company of Asians, and are unwilling to adjust to the local culture.
You very rarely see a westener sitting alone in a Korean restaurant in Gwangju. You might see it in Seoul or at Haeundai in Pusan if your lucky. CPN could order in Korean as well, and that would have warmed the waiters or waitresses to him. Customers would have picked up on it as well, and relaxed.
Interesting to read the comments about him from the seminary he attended. They are all biased, and not spontaneous. They have been tailored to suit the crimes of which he has been accused, and that's too bad. I sense a certain amount of fear in the comments as well. Sadly they are trying to distance themselves from him, and not acknowledge his more human side. They are afraid of Guilt by association I guess.
There seems to be a run on Canadian dysfunctionals in Asia. Another Canadian was arrested in Thailand for procuring young boys for overseas sickos on tour in Asia.
No reflection on the canadians I guess, because the majority of teachers in Asia are Canadian. The Canadian government actually encourages graduates to go to Korea to work. The U.S. Government on the other hand discourages it's citizens from doing the same thing.
He taught in Gyeongido in a public school for at least a year, before travelling to Thailand. Internet reports of him there from people who knew him show him as being outgoing and popular. The internet grapevine reports that his coworkers actually gave him a farewell party when he left.
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