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I just got this advertising post from Media Kids just now and showed it to some of the foreign teachers here at this school. We could not believe that such an ageny could even see and operate here with this superiour attidude.
Media Kids
Media kids is the one and only agency that takes the trouble to the places, we train for free and really must look after Thai people who do live in a most primate and strange culture compared to we English society. We cannot be held responsible for ill bred American westerners like yourself who have really have absolutely no manners and do not deal frankly and honestly and expect us to spoonfeed them with every bloody requirement which Thailand has. We are English people and we have the uppermost and highest standards in the world compared to all Americans. We really do try our hardest to be a professional and caring agency to these people and do appreciate and nurture to the best of our ability every person who entrusts themselves to us.
I do hope that you will take the time to look at our website and give us at least a chance – after all there are always two sides to every story.
Regards
Lynnette
Human Resources
Media Kids
Do your homework before working in Thailand as a teacher. There are many opportunities to work at respected agencies that treat their staff with respect and value them as an important asset to their organization.
That being said, I was not mistreated by Media Kids.. but I was not respected or looked after either. Fend for yourself attitude is essential.
Check out ajarn.com if you need a job.
From my experience with Mediakids, they are about average for Thailand, as far as recruiters go. They pay a good salary these days, do a fairly good job of visas and work permits, ok for accomodations (vary greatly dep on school location). Most of the teachers that compained about Mediakids were not aware that they were in a different culture with different customs. Newsflash complainers, you are not in the U.S, England, Australia, etc. anymore. I can’t think of any instance that MK “ripped” anybody off, but they have had some dissagreements with teachers. The teachers that were patient, continued to do their job, respected Thai culture, etc. usually came to some kind of agreement (p.s. if you dont like Thai culture, dont come or get out of Thailand). Those that bitched and moaned about everything or yelled and screamed or were just crap teachers, usually got fired (as you would anywhere in the world). I speak from 3 years of experience with the company. I find it VERY hard to beleive that MK worked anybody out of 50,000 baht. Clarification please Kpisguy. How is this a “classic MK man.”? Scandalous…NO, Great…NO, bad reputation…amongst a few.
I agree with Cameron, “Attitutde is essential” and MK is not known to mistreat their teachers, but also not known to take excellent care of them either. Find me a recruiter anywhere in the world that takes excellent care of their teachers and I will be on the plane tomorrow.
I have just completed a 4 month contract with Media Kids and was treated very fairly and they processed my work permit in less than three weeks. The only problem I had was getting hired by the company, they would not answer my e-mails. Since then they have a new Human Resources Director who is very good and corresponding. George.
As expected, when complainers are asked to clarify or give details of thier situation, they seem to get quiet or dissapear altogether. Keep running from yourselves. Your problems and bad attitude will always catch up to you.
I haven’t worked in Thailand for almost 1 year now but I like to keep tabs on the the teaching world in general. I am continually amazed that people seem to think that they can move to a country half way around the world; a country that probably has a completely different history, culture, religion, etc. and expect things to be the same.
As this pertains to Mediakids. Once again, a good company if you are a newbie and dont want to go through the strenuous and arduous task of organizing visas, accom, work permits, etc. yourself (most schools are clueless and the rules constantly change). They pay a good salary and in my 3 years experience always pay on time. Can you find find better jobs than they offer? Of course! Does everyone have the time, knowledge, desire, tenacity, sheer qualifications to get those good jobs? Nope!
DA, ever think that other cultures don’t view “a lie” the same way that you do?
Do your homework. Make the move with an open mind and willingness to learn and maybe even change. Accept the fact the you cannot control everything.
I have to give credit where credit is due. When I was down and out with dengue and had to take two weeks off work and spent three days in the hospital, Media Kids had the decency to not dock me for missed work, had the patience with me to allow for time to recover when I wanted to go AWOL, they always paid on time and put me in a very decent living space and at a great school. While I see the potential to branch off at some point, I would not hesitate to sign on with Media Kids again for a full year or more when I am ready to teach again in Thailand. While I was a newbie to the teaching world, I am pretty well versed in Thai culture. Proper behaviour is the essence of enjoying the Kingdom of Siam, and one of the reasons I love being there so much. Hats off to my consultant and the new HR manager, I have no complaints and offer my sincerest thanks.
MK, like most Thai agents, are so so. Actually not so bad compared to some. I had a major problem with them but that was mostly due to staff at the school trying to cheat me out of money! The main problem with them is they do nothing in terms of support for curriculum – but again neither does anyone else! The Thai TEFL market is a case of the lowest possible standard wins as there is no respect for intellectual property rights. Thailand won’t see improvements in English standards until they kick out all the cowboys (and all the corrupt thieving school directors.)
So I rate them as average. But their client schools are rubbish. I have worked for terrible agents BUT with good client schools which works much better!
I feel pretty neutral towards them right now.
You do pretty much have to fend for yourself 95% of the time but there were a few times when MK did bail me out of a few tough situations.
After I finished my first contract with them I went to another school which was offering a higher salary (MK told me about this school) but after a week or two I just couldn’t take it so MK
re-hired me to work for them again with a small school in Isaan and I have no major complaints about this school at all.
So, in a way, they did really help me out and I am grateful to them for that but, in all fairness, it was mutually beneficial.
The guy who I replaced at this school quit after a few weeks because he couldn’t adjust so he left Thailand and went home so MK needed someone to fill the spot….I didn’t like my job so they offered to me.
Again, I do feel like they helped me out in that instance but it wasn’t completely altrusitic. I’m not complaining either, just trying to be objective.
There was another time where I was in Khon Kaen and lost my atm card (stupid of me) and didn’t have enough money to get home and it was a weekend. I got a hold of MK and, after some time, they were able to access my account and wire the money to me. So, they really came through for me that time and didn’t really have much to gain from it.
The way I would describe MK is that they are a good way to get your foot in the door. If you want to work in Thailand they can get you a job for 4 months which isn’t a long time. It’s not like you are locked a in a year contract.
So, I’d say just go with them for a semester and see how you like. If you are happy with them you can probably re-new (unless you’re like a totally irresponsible alcoholic) and if you find a better job or a job in a city you want to work in you can do that after 4 months…..so, they’re not that bad.
Some people have had good experiences with them and some have had bad experiences with them.
My major problem with them right now is them pressuring me to enroll in a TEFL Course which I found out has been blacklisted and is self-accredited….MK charged me $500 for this course and I am still waiting to see if they will give me the refund I am entitled to.
When all is said and done you truly must rely on ones-self. I read with intrest the comments and can see the good and the bad. I have had on the most part a very good relationship with MK. I agree with Brandon that they are at first a foot in the door, just give it a go and see where it leads.
I taught in Thailand Oct 2005 through February 2006 with Media Kids and have to say that I couldn’t have done it without the company. They hooked me up with everything I needed to do and it was through them that I met many other foreignors who made my teaching experience most memorable.
There were many hiccups along the way, don’t get me wrong. When my contract ended I was not paid the full bonus for completing my contract as I had expected. I argued with MK back and forth for a while and got frustrated and gave up. But really, it wasn’t worth the argument. All of the fantastic and wonderful things I experienced far outweighed the issues with the contract.
Even just knowing the experience and knowledge the company has made the decison to go to the foreign country much easier.
I would ABSOLUTELY reccomend Media Kids to my friends and family who wish to teach in Thailand. Media Kids helped take a lot of the pressure off.
MK is okay, not good not bad, however they have a couple of very rotten fish in their pool of schools. I used to work at one of the schools. Envy, jealousy, serious interference in teacher’s personal life, posting outside one’s house to see where you’re going and some serious backstabbing are everyday routine. I’m happy that I got out of that hell hole. I won’t name the school.
However, I am still waiting for the reimbursement from MK. When I started working for MK they deducted a work permit deposit from my first salary and I kind of have been waiting for the last 4 months to get my money back. Well kind of… I wrote dozens of emails, tried to call them a million times but no one’s home!
@Brandon: Which tefl was blacklisted? the one in ban phe?
If you need a good school but can’t find one, try Teach-to-travel.com. They have really good schools and are very teacher-oriented. They will help you get a non-immigrant visa too if you need help. They only employ good teachers with good references though.
Which area would you recommend to work in if you are going to be placed with MediaKids?
Watch out for what you write on the internet – the letter on the top of the page was not something that I wrote but something that someone copied and put my name to – coward!!!!!!
I am not English for starters and would never write such appalling English
Mediakids although I no longer work with them is still one of the best placement companies in Thailand
Lynne Vince-Jillings
I worked for Media Kids for a full semester, a semester that almost killed me.
http://www.mediakids-edu.com/
I am 27 years old, in excellent health, and graduated with a Masters degree 2 years ago from a prestigious private university. I was sent to Media Kids by my TEFL Certification company Oxford Seminars. Media Kids requested that I come to Thailand at the beginning of April and that they would have a place for me to stay near the school that I had been chosen for, approximately 1 hour North of Bangkok.
I arrived around April 4th expecting someone to meet me at the airport. After numerous calls it was clear that someone had ‘forgotten.’ I checked into a hotel near the BTS Skytrain and waited, and waited. I called Media Kids twice per day asking about the apartment near the school I was signed up for and the only message I received was ‘come find our office’. Being unsure about this new country that I found myself in I was hesitant to set off in search of an office without any help.
After 10 days (!!!) on April 14th their foreign recruiter Eric, the person who had promised I would ‘have a place to stay upon arrival’ talked to me and told me that the school I was placed at had canceled, but that they already had another school for me and if I just waited in Bangkok a few more days his Apartment scout would get me a place to stay.
Another entire week passes with me calling twice a day only to be told, ‘the apartment scouts are doing their best’. Eric is a really nice Canadian guy and I really want to believe that his people were lying to him. Finally, 3 days before I am supposed to begin teaching I am called and told to get in a taxi and they will give the taxi directions. The taxi takes me an hour North East to a sad looking office building down an alley. I get out and for 10 minutes search in and out of different offices (the office does NOT say Media Kids on the Window) and finally through luck of the draw step inside the Media Kids office.
I am feeling very alone and confused. Why did it take 20 days to find me a place to stay? Eric and his staff are all at lunch when I arrive so I wait around half an hour. When Eric arrives he tells me his assistant will take me to the apartment, 1 hour south of Bangkok in Samut Sakhon.
On the way to Samut Sakhon I try to converse in a friendly manner with Eric’s assistant Pi to discover why it has taken so long to find an apartment. He doesn’t seem to want to speak with me and outright ignores me! He continues speaking in Thai with his friend whom he brought along while I sit in the back. After about 90 minutes of this I begin to feel like I am being kidnapped and wonder where they are taking me. They refuse to answer any of my questions or even respond to me so I say, “You either tell me what is going on or I am calling the Tourist Police and am going to jump out of the car and run for it.”
He looks back at me annoyed, and finally, speaking English VERY WELL tells me we will arrive in Samut Sakhon in about 20 minutes and he is sorry about the traffic. I feel foolish so I don’t speak until we arrive at the school. (http://www.sksc.ac.th/kingsk/i.....ndex.html)
We arrive at a school with Thai children wearing school uniforms. The fields and buildings look very worn and I ask him, “Are these High School students? They look like Middle Schoolers.” Pi confirms that they are High School students then he goes to meet with the Director of the school. The clothes I am wearing are dirty and wrinkled from the long trip and I am NOT ready to meet with the Director, but we meet with him anyway.
We all three get back into the car and I assume we are going to the Apartment. After 20 DAYS (!!!) of waiting I assume we are going to the apartment. INSTEAD Pi pulls out a list of places and we begin going from building to building. For some reason, each place we go to is either closed or full. I am dumbfounded. It has been 20 days and they have not even bothered to call in advance to see if the apartments we are visiting have Vacancies, then Pi runs out of places to visit. There are none left on the list. We return to the school and Director tells us about two places he recommends (I later find out this is a method the schools use to keep tabs on the teachers.). One is a Filthy run down apartment building that resembles Low-Income Project Housing and the other is a converted Office Building, and neither have hot water.
Now I am not a picky person, but I still want and need the basics afforded me by my contract and promised to me before I arrived in the country. A clean apartment with AC and Hot Water. I’m not asking for High Speed DSL or Marble Floors, just AC and Hot Water! It is 40C/100F during the day.
I tell Pi that none of the places he has shown me are acceptable and I cannot BELIEVE that in 20 DAYS they have not found the CONTRACTUALLY OBLIGATED type of apartment. He looks annoyed and I am more angry than I can ever remember being. He tells me that it’s either one of these two places or nothing. I cannot believe what is happening. Media Kids has jerked me around for 20 days, I’ve spent a fortune on a hotel in Bangkok and now I find out that he is refusing to find me an apartment with AC and Hot Water.
I accept the Apartment with AC because it’s the same apartment the Director lives in and the building manager tells me I won’t be able to move in for another week! That is COMPLETELY unacceptable because I start working at the school in 3 days! I thought he was going to take me straight to the apartment, drop me off, and then leave. Instead….it’s this crazy circus! I literally am so angry I think I am going crazy. Spots are dancing in front of my eyes. I have never been treated so unprofessionally and I have no idea how to handle it. (Two weeks after living in the town I find enormous houses for rent at the same price they are charging us for our tiny apartments and later learn that our placement is part of a housing scam)
I call Eric and once again he placates me. “Well, you’ve been staying in the hotel 20 days. What’s another 3?” I force logic to cool my anger and just tell Pi to take me to the BTS somewhere. He actually looks put-out and calls Eric to see if he has to do it. Like I am inconveniencing him by asking him to drop me somewhere along the enormously long BTS. He actually has the balls to ask Eric if he can just LEAVE ME in Samut Sakhon! I hear Eric on the other side of the phone tell him forcefully, “*sigh* PI! Just take him wherever he wants to go. We need to at least do that for him!” It makes me feel like Eric is not in control of the situation at all. That he is just doing his best to make me happy despite everything. (Later I find out that Media Kids simply refused to pay for the apartment early despite Eric telling them over and over that he promised me. The owner of the company told Eric, “YOU promised him, not Media Kids.” Eric tried to explain to the owner that he promised me as a recruiter for Media Kids and that meant that Media Kids promised me.)
I go see a movie at one of Bangkok’s 5 Star cinemas. The comfortable leather couches and ice cold AC cool my frayed nerves and unwind my tension. I return to my hotel and then move into the apartment 3 days later. At this point I am completely out of money. I have spent 23 days at a Bangkok hotel living off of my savings when I expected to be picked up at the airport and taken straight to my hotel. I ask for an advance of half my salary and am DENIED. (WHAT!? After all this? There must be some mistake.) I call Eric and he has to arrange for me to have a personal meeting with the 2nd in command of the company to get my Salary Advance. Finally I get a $120 advance on my $1,000 salary.
Fast forward 3 months; one foreign teacher has quit and the school and Media Kids are at each other’s throats about some sort of contract negotiation. The school is taking it out on the Foreign Teachers. We are not aloud to go inside the Teacher’s Lounge or other places on campus NO FOREIGNERS ALOUD. (That’s right, SEGREGATION.) The computer lab teacher turns the Internet Off when we arrive or ‘suddenly’ has a meeting and we have to leave so she can lock the door.
Some of the teachers are really nice and really care about their students but, there are two female Department Leaders that are at each other throats, one comes into the English department regularly to yell at the other in Thai. During one afternoon period 10 students get into a brawl. I lock the door and watch as a female student picks up a 2×4 and begins hitting boys. Knives are pulled…it is insane.
The foreign teachers suddenly and mysteriously all start getting sick. Trouble breathing swelling joints, muscle pain. The Irish Foreign teacher calls Media Kids and asks what is going on? Why we are all getting sick. He looks STUNNED by what they are saying to him. He puts it on speaker phone and I hear, “Why do you make up stories? Why are you such a liar?” We look at each other in disbelief. I am coughing so much my muscles are sore just from the coughing and he is having an allergic reaction so badly he cannot wear rings or a watch. The Irish teacher shakes his head and says, “I didn’t hear that last part?” The Media Kids staff member repeats himself, “I SAID. WHY-ARE-YOU-SUCH-A-LIAR?” The Irish teacher just shakes his head and says, “I’ll call you back.” He then turns to me and says, “What are we going to do about this? My doctor says something here is making me sick and our company Insurance should cover this, but it doesn’t look like they’re going to cooperate.”
Neither of us has the money to cover the expenses, that’s why we both signed up for the Media Kids Insurance. There is nothing we can do, we just keep working. Thursday evening of that week I cannot breathe, my throat is closing up and I am afraid I am going to die. I call one of the young Thai teachers and she has her sister take me to the hospital. The Thai doctor listens to my chest and tells me that my lungs have filled to 30% with fluid and that if I had gone to sleep I might not have woken up. He puts me on a breathing machine for 3 hours that mixes oxygen with medicine. The doctor tells me that there is an illegal toxic waste dump that has just been uncovered at a construction site Samut Sakhon. Heavy Metals such as Mercury are seeping into the rivers and evaporating into the air causing hundreds of cases of reactions ranging from headaches and exhaustion to severe allergic reactions such as myself and the Irish teacher’s. He also says it has been in all the Thai papers but that it is banned in the English press because it would hurt Thailand’s image as a tourist destination.
It is near the end of the month and the bill amounts to 1/3 of my paycheck. The Thai teacher’s sister loans me the money. I am too weak to return to my apartment, so I sleep on her floor. She gives me a blanket and a pillow it is a warm comfortable night. I call Media Kids in the morning and tell them I have been in the hospital the previous night and will not be able to make it to work in time. The Media Kids staff person accepts the message and hangs up. After 20 minutes I am then called by a staff member accusing me of lying about being in the Hospital and that I am just taking Friday off. I respond, “I have a hospital bill with a time and date to prove where I was. Both myself and the Irish teacher are very ill from a toxic waste site that YOU ARE aware of because it is in all the Thai Newspapers. What are you trying to pull here?” Suddenly the Media Kids staff member changes his tone and agrees complete and asks me to fax the receipts for insurance purposes.
Later in the day while I am resting I receive a call from an older British woman. “I regret to inform you that your services are no longer needed at this company.” I am surprised. I respond, “So you’re telling me that because I took ONE SICK DAY of which I have 10 per semester after having never arrived late even ONE time to a SINGLE class Media Kids is throwing in the towel?” She is very surprised…”Well, no, I don’t make any decisions. They just hired me to call people and gave me a list. I don’t know any details.” I respond, “Ok, well I have a contract and unless I am in breach of that contract Media Kids is responsible to complete the contract with me.” She says, “Ok, but…contracts aren’t worth anything in Thailand. They don’t ever honor contracts. It’s just a piece of paper they use to control you…I’m really sorry about all this. I think the company has really screwed you.” Again I am really surprised! “Thank you for being honest with me…”
I get a call from my Media Kids supervisor. She tells me I can stay in the apartment for one week and that the company will pay the electric bill. I pack my bags and am getting ready to head for the airport. As I am leaving the Building Owner comes out and starts yelling at me in Thai. I call my supervisor and a different staff member picks up. It’s the staff member who told myself and the Irishman that we are liars. He tells me, “Your supervisor is no longer with the company. I can hear the building owner, hand him the phone.” The building owner wants to know who is going to pay for the last utility bill? The Media Kids staff member says, “Give him $500. He says you owe him money for the electric.” I respond, “No, my supervisor said Media Kids was going to take care of that.” The Media Staff member begins speaking rapidly in Thai to someone then says, “Why are you such a liar? Why do you constantly lie? Just give him $500 and then get out of my country.” Again I am dumbfounded with anger and I am in DISBELIEF about how they are treating me. I say into the phone, “I am leaving. I am not giving him any money and if he tries to touch me he will regret it.” I have trained in martial arts my entire life and anger is surging through me in such a force as I have never known. The building manager stares at me and backs away to the door of his office. I am literally shaking with rage. All the Thai people nearby who can see me are staring at me with wide eyes and I can only imagine what I look like. I get into the taxi and leave for the airport…
Ha, bless them. I saw this page before I came out, and did my 4 months in a rural Esan school.
The fend for yourself attitude was certainly there, which I don’t mind generally, except they would often turn up with 5 minutes notice demanding papers and then generally dick you about all day and screw things up… so you had to go with a teacher the next day anyway.
However, their reputation has gone to shit in literally the last term. Whether it is financial problems, or their ‘take anyone with any degree’ attitude, they have fucked over a lot of people.
The current policy is teachers must sign a contract to stay with MK before they even talk to the school about staying on another term. Good, bad, animal or vegetable… you have to wait until your contract is already finished to find out where you are going. Selfish to say the least, and pandering to the schools.
Not only that, despite being a completely unregistered company, they like to pretend legitimacy in irritating ways. For instance, despite employing plenty of white guys with some tenuous link to teaching (but no degree or TEFL) due to Red Shirt problems last term… they are now adamant all teachers have to have/pay a TCT. Even if they’re not making money on it (they’re stating 4k, whereas my current school offered it and said they were 2k), it’s such obvious crap that just puts decent teachers off. Especially as you have to fit your schedule around a few limited finger painting classes in one of 4 places. No school privately hiring gives a crap about them, and in fact the only advert I’ve seen mentioning it was my old school… who thought I was a crap teacher because I spent my lessons getting the children to talk English, rather than just handing out word search/sentence correction (I shit you not).
And now, as the final nail in the coffin for them, they’ve now strung on plenty of people I know for the whole break, and now a week before they were due to start again they have been dropped. One had already gone home, and only flew back out because of this ‘job’ and her Visa lapses soon. The current theory is she was over qualified so would be paid a lot more then a fresh one next term.
As a way out here to learn how to go independently, go for it. And to get that initial experience that allows you to pitch yourself better to a proper job, yep. But always remember you are a consumable resource to them.
media kids was wonderful..they did everything ..atm card payment always on time always there to help with problems along the way! not only are they a great company but they are great friends as well..they made my move to thailand the easiest move i have ever made! the paperwork they did for me was sky high and the visa runs with porsche were the best! media kids is the best!
Having just returned from Thailand, I feel I must place a more recent update on MediaKids.
As a company they are a little bit ‘challenging’ to get hold of and to get references from once you finish a contract.
However, as another person has said on here, they do pay on time, and they do take a lot of the pressure concerning paperwork for visas and work permits etc off.
My main issue with them was that although they frequently came to observe lessons, and also take photographs in my classes, they never provided any kind of official feedback as to the standard of my teaching, and also only observed my ‘good’ classes of 20 students rather than the ones with 60 challenging kids… so although I think I did a reasonable job, I dont have any kind of professional review to tell me! I would have loved feedback on my ‘challenging’ classes as it was very difficult to judge what some of the students were getting out of them, I had several with autism etc and it would have helped to know that the effort I put in was actually worth it to the school
All in all, I think they are good as a first job in Thailand, they pay around 30,000 baht a month. There are many companies that pay more though, but they dont always help with the paperwork, so maybe use MediaKids as a starting point and then find you own job after that.
Also, another problem I had was that they paid absolutly no regard to where I had asked to be placed (and placed me very late in relation to other members of our teaching group.. I only found out where I was going 5 days before). Then they put me about as far as possible away from there which caused a problem as my partner (at the time) ended up being over 12 hours away.
So use them as an agent for your first job, but unless you are really happy with your placement, consider finding your own job after your first semester.
Happy teaching!!!
Chok Dee!
Sorry but MK is not what is was when I was going to work with them in 2008. There is now a fellow named Pai who is constantly too “busy” to answer many questions. Thais are generally not doing much. I have lived in the country for years doing MANY jobs and this is the plain truth. The person that had this position in 08 was GREAT. Always answered questions, provided pics etc. Also now they hit you with a 150.00 Thai Culture class fee. This is the perfect link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....re=related
Everyone should watch this. Thai culture is great but their GDP is based on tourism and really that is what the country is best for. Travel around with money you have made in the EU or US and enjoy.
Please understand that unless you LIKE living like a pauper 30 to 35k Baht per month is nothing. SUre for a Thai this is great, especially as you get far out in Issarn (god forbid I was stuck there). My visit to Sakon Nakhon for a week alone was close to hell.
Google them. They don’t even have a working website anymore and the first few words is cash advance.
Hi all, I must say…. I started my teaching career in Thailand with Media Kids. I was placed in a government school in Nakorn Pathom where I ended up working two and a half years. Must say…the money wasn’t all that great but the experience made up for it all. I bought a motorcycle and went all over the place. I now teach with a top international school in Myanmar and I must say….I do miss the times I had there in N.P. I personally feel sorry for the people who experienced bad encounters, but I do think Media Kids is the way to go for new comers. I met many teachers during my stay there and started calling them fly-bys…he he. They worked a few days and were drunk 40% of the time. They were usually the ones who made the company bad but then again…. Judge for yourself!! Long story short… Media Kids was supportive and thanks to the opportunity, I gained the experience I needed to do what I do now… Love it!!!!!!
I felt Media Kids of Thailand treated me, and my fellow teachers as well as they could. I was not disappointed with their service. Our rep in Chaiyaphum, Jaeb, did a great job in terms of being available for communicating and assistance. Overall, I felt they were a great placement program for teaching. If you happen to be new to Thailand, keep an open mind. Business processes are not like they are in western countries, be prepared for vagueries and arrive with your patience intact. I found Media Kids to be organized and helpful, in terms of Thai agencies. I don’t regret using them for my first placement.