Starting in February 2013, we bought you 13 serialized installments of a teacher’s report from inside TBI Bekasi. This was the first ever teacher to finsh a contract with the school’s owner-manager-terrorizer, Binsar Simorangkir. The fact that it took almost 5 years before one ex-pat managed to stay at TBI Bekasi Suncity for a full…
Teaching Standards I am aware that on my personal site I have written about the courses that I have taught at TBI Bekasi. I do stand by my testimonial there as it relates to courses taught. The standard of teaching at TBI Bekasi is quite high. The local Indonesian teachers are well-qualified and experienced and…
Teacher A mentioned previously that Binsar is rumoured to practise black magic and several people do believe that quite strongly. He says he’s a Christian but he doesn’t go to church instead he drops his children at the church and waits outside. I wonder why? What’s he got to hide from God? Kind of reminds…
Binsar is a Batak Indonesian. Part of the culture is to be very up-front, but even still he is incredibly up front even for a Batak. I think he just says whatever he thinks so he doesn’t control what he says. That’s partly why he’s told me things about Ted’s lack of documents, the other…
Tomorrow we will begin a three-part series on the character of Binsar Simorangkir, including his reputation for storing the FB IDs of students, including very young girls and boys, in his mobile phone. You will recall that multiple sources have told us that Binsar was indeed arrested over allegations of sexual interference with a student…
To Binsar Simorangkir, You are a disgusting, despicable man. I befriended you, your wife and your children and became very close with you and you just used me and took advantage of me and made my life hell. You threatened me, you lied to me and you betrayed me. You still call yourself…
The ability to make accurate predictions is important in the sciences as a means of testing different theories. The people who believed in a ‘Flat Earth’ were proven wrong when Magellan circumnavigated the globe. The same applies in other fields. Keynesian economists seem to have had a better time of it in the current…
I was teaching Business English the other day to a Pre-Intermediate class and I came across a reading passage on ‘The Quality Circle’. This is a common term which is thrown around in business books these days and no doubt it is already last decade’s news on the corporate training circuit. But like most of…
Towards the end of last year ‘Michelle’ loved to crow that he had ‘no new material’ and were ‘getting very boring and repetitive’. She also got her stooge Minerva to pester us with smses and Facebook comments complaining about the ‘boring repetetiveness of it all’. It was ridiculously transparent of course. Once you know not…
Take a look again at the TBI Bekasi income sheet and you will see that including Rp 257.000.000 of ‘non-TBI courses’ on a TBI income sheet is not the only piece of roguery which Binsar is up to. Michelle hinted absurdly that this may not be illegal because we don’t have the franchise agreement! Well…
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