American teacher fired because of the incident in Kazakhstan

The Ministry of education and science contacted the police after the incident with the indecent behaviour of the teacher, from USA to one of the schools of Astana, Vice-Minister of education and science of Kazakhstan Elmira Sukhanberdiyeva.

She noted that the teacher no comments were made. But after media reports, Mr. Jackson was fired.

'We received an official response that Mr. Jackson is a doctor of Sciences. Do they have selection and check quite serious. It is not in our country, but when the teacher comes to our babies, it is fully visible on the compliance with labour legislation. No comments on employment law in our state was not. But how was such information, teacher fired', – said Vice-Minister.

According to her, is busy with the police.

'We sent a letter to the interior Ministry, and I think that the organization will do it. I can't blame the man, because guilt has not been proved. Once it is proven, we will say this', – said Elmira Sukhanberdiyeva.

QSI international school of Astana opened in September 2005 and offers education in English for pupils aged 3 to 17 years. Only every fourth student is a citizen of Kazakhstan.

The headquarters of the network of schools located in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Students here are the children of parents who come into the country, usually for short periods to work in the Embassy and foreign companies. Training at school costs an average of about 25 thousand dollars a year.

'QSI is quite a closed school in Kazakhstan. Children spend the whole day at school, every day for eight lessons. Classes are taught in English, all courses are taught by foreign teachers, mainly from the United States. Local educators teach the history of Kazakhstan, Kazakh language and literature', – said the graduate of the QSI Kasim Kailali.

Kasim Kailali one of the first wrote a post on Facebook about a teacher the Stephen Howard Myers, who to Astana taught at the QSI school in China.

'Initially, came the news that an alleged pedophile working in one of the foreign schools of Astana. Two days later, QSI published release, that the hero of this news taught them. I decided to write a post in Facebook because I have a question, why didn't they call the police, and a quick deported him from the country. Although it was required to bring a case against him and start the investigation of the incident' – continued Kasim Kailali.

According to him, the post was split up among the teachers and students of the school QSI. Many teachers came into contact with him. The teachers put forward their suggestions about what happened.

'I asked a few questions. QSI has released an official release that they are all teachers check through the FBI. I never believed it and decided to conduct a survey among the teachers who contacted me. Four of the interviewed teachers said that they did not check through the FBI, and three of the teachers noted that to get the teacher in QSI was the easiest process, unlike other international schools, where they worked before' – said a former student of QSI.

June 11, 2014 Stephen Howard Myers was deprived of a teacher's license by the Department of education of the state of Colorado for attempted fraud in obtaining a teacher's certificate, unethical behavior and illegal sexual contact with two students and one minor. In California local authorities are deprived Myers of all licenses for immoral behavior and illegal actions.

Data about Stephen Howard Myers (aka Stefan Swarup Jackson after the name change) published on the website infostevemyersjackson.org. In the interview chief editor of the site noted that after the publicity of the incident in Kazakhstan they received many complaints from parents and students from QSI in Astana.

In the police Department of Astana said that the access to them from any of the involved parties has not been received.

'Treatment is not received neither from victims, nor from the school. After the publication in the media traveled to the place of juvenile police officers to check a fact. By the time of arrival of employees of juvenile police vetting his (the teacher. – Ed.) have not been in school', said the head of the press service of Astana DP Sophia Konysbekova.