Education chief vows instant dismissal if DSI finds school director, assistant teacher guilty of che
The education-office chief of an allegedly corrupt school director and an assistant teacher in Nakhon Ratchasima yesterday vowed to dismiss them from their posts if the Department of Special Investigation found them guilty of cheating in the latest assist
Wicha Manadee, director of Nakhon Ratchasima Primary Educational Service Area Office 2, said he was awaiting the results of the DSI’s investigation, which are due to be issued tomorrow, as the report would establish whether the two subordinates were guilty.
The two being investigated are Amphorn Thawannakul, director of Sema-uppatham School in Chakkarat district – and also a member of the subcommittee of the education area’s Office of the Teacher Civil Service and Educational Personnel Commission – and Suchao Yatheelo, an assistant teacher working at Kong Rot Rat Samakkhi School in Huai Thalaeng district.
“If they are found guilty and the subcommittee agrees with the decision, I will order them to be dismissed from their positions immediately,” he said.
Amphorn had allegedly sold answers to Suchao, who achieved abnormally high scores in the assistant-teacher exam.
DSI officials on Friday raided Amphorn’s house in Muang district and found answers for the test-paper questions in all of the exam subjects.
They also found evidence showing suspicious money transfers in his bank accounts before and during the day that applicants had taken the exam.
The DSI had summoned the two to give testimony before concluding the investigation and announcing the results.
Wicha said he was ready to provide the DSI with more information about the case if requested to do so.
He insisted that his office had not been involved in the alleged cheating, and that it had been carried out solely on Amphorn’s own initiative.