The ESL industry that brings so many expatriates to Bangkok every year with hopes of procuring an honest job teaching has become quite the dark and shady business, like everything else in Thai culture the ESL industry is following suit, the standards are dropping at an obscene rate, employers picking up anyone with a white face and a pulse and slapping them infront of Thai students who genuinely believe that this well dressed foreigner has some kind of qualifications to be there. It has been a trend lately in Bangkok especially that flood of fake degrees from the likes of Khao San Road have allowed anyone to break into this industry because most employers who are Thai do not have the resources to seperate facts from fiction and in the end it is the children who are shortchanged when they are given defunct ESL instructors.

Recently there has been an explosion of recruiting agencies popping up all over Bangkok that are netting as many farangs as possible and throwing them in every which direction to collect a quick comission. Even more disturbing is that the bar has been lowered and now native speakers of English are not the sought after. Some very dodgy companies have even introduced English teachers from countries such as Iran, and the Phillipines most of them being the last resort for companies to fill these vacancies and make a quick buck, as with everything else in Thailand money overtakes all other priorities and someone has to lose, in this instance it is the Thai children that will be taking the heaviest loss.