Unfortunately, what you've describe happens at virtually every state school in the country, The students being taught well comes a distant second to money making, and this is encouraged from the top down, as is cheating as far as I can see...
It's simple really, the other countries want their kids to learn English, Thailands Gov. doesn't want them to, an educated populace are far more likely to rise up, as they see how they're being treated by their rulers...
I thought Terry Pratchett solved this one years ago...
"The world is a disc, sitting on the backs of four Elephants who stand on the back of great At'uin the mighty star turtle"...
I don't know what happens to the broke and homeless in Finland, hopefully he has some friends or family somewhere there. I'm sure that you wouldn't survive a night on the streets in a Finnish winter...
This is where the world banks, WEF etc. want to take it, which will complete the process of making wage slaves of the remaining population by 2030. Time to wake up to it folks...
Put that into percentage lost of national population and it might look a little different. Russia was the biggest loser in WW2 as far as people killed goes on the allied side at least...
My luk sal daughter got her Thai ID card at the age of 8 last year, the school wanted a copy to claim some money for her from the gov. No one seemed to think it odd about her age at the Provincial capital's Tessaban when we took her in for it...
Now leave Bangkok and you'll find a lot of smaller towns and villages where most of the population lives, the power generally goes off whenever there's any kind of rain or wind for anything up to 12 hours or more at a time...