"Private Lessons"
Hu Jian Ming is seventeen and a Chinese student at Bangkok International Academy, an international school for the children of foreign people working in Thailand. This academy is really expensive but Hu An Yuan, Hu’s Father, works for a Chinese oil Company and the Company helped Hu An Yuan to pay for the academy. Hu likes animals. Actually, she loves animals and nature. Her hometown is Wu Xi and it is full of nature. Hu brought, from Wu Xi , Lao Mao, a cat. Hu always talks to Lao Mao. Hu is a good daughter. She is very respectful with her parents. Also, Hu is a very good student. She works very hard in her homework. Moreover, she is really good at English.
Mr. Declan Stanyer was the English teacher at Bangkok International Academy. Mr. Stanyer is from the United States and he studied at Ohio State University. He started teaching last term at this prestigious academy. Mr. Declan Stanyer is bald, a bit fat and very sweaty. He always smells terrible and he always looked at Hu very much and smiled at her.
Hu got a bad result for her English test. She only got a 46 % although she studied very hard. The problem was that she had to get a better grade because she has to get into the International Baccalaureate program. She has to get the IB because her father wants her to be a doctor. Mr. Stanyer talked to Hu and he decided to help her with “private lessons” after school but Hu had to pay him for them. Hu did not have enough money and she did not want to tell her father because he was too busy with his job and his own problems. She had to pay him five hundred Bath. One day, Mr. Stanyer asked Hu if she would like to go to his apartment to be “more comfortable”. This was clearly evidence of sexual assault.
Hu talked to Mr. Riding, the school counselor, and he made a meeting with the principal of the Academy, some teachers and Hu’s father. At the end, Hu realized that she must tell the truth to her father. Her father was very angry about it. He could not believe how the English teacher was so shameless. Hu An Yuan could not believe his daughter was suffering.
Mrs. Verity Truman, the head of Upper School at the Academy, heard about the problem between Hu and Mr. Stanyer and called Wiwat Phalavadhana, an important official.
In the meeting, everybody except Hu An Yuan said that Hu Jian Ming was telling lies. When the principal was about to say that Hu had to leave the school, Mrs. Truman and Mr. Phalavadhana arrived into the meeting and they said that everything Hu had said was true. Mr. Phalavadhana told the principal that there was no record in Ohio State University of a student called Declan Stanyer and he did not have permission to work in Thailand. Mrs. Truman gave some porn magazines to the principal and he said ‘Mr. Stanyer’ but he was not there.
‘Just disappeared! Three weeks now, and no one’s seen him. Of course the police are still interested. But I had no idea! I was away when he was given the job. The head of the Upper School then, Mr. Nyondo, had made the arrangements. And of course, the school will pay back the money Hu spent on the “private lessons”, said Mr. Grisman, the principal of the Bangkok International Academy, the same one who accused Hu of telling lies. TBAT
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