Thailand Education Ministry Launches 3 Steps to Cut School Costs

The parents will save thousands of THB... but not... Thai education is free is always announced, so please stop than with charging more money for unnecessaryand things. Boyscout should no be in school, but on a Saturday where parents and kids can decide if they want to participate or not, instead of doing it in school. Time could be used better. Most kids have already their uniforms, and no embroidering will not let parents save a lot of money. reuse the old uniforms instead...and give 1 set free would be much better.

Textbooks should be included in the free education program. No need to buy them.

The costs are not the reason of the fall out. The biggest reason is often the lack of willing to study by the students. No parental guidance and the always pass law.

I see in my soi too. A boy from a poor family is more not in school than in school. Reason he has to help his grandmother as she can't do everything anymore, and sometimes there is nobody available to bring him to and pick him up from school. He is uneducated and nobody cares, we have seen on TV several similar cases. That are real reasons of fall out. The government has no clue what is going on in the country

I am fortunate to have been a part of an excellent free public school system.

Uniforms were non existent, text books were free and reused from one year to the next , boy / girl scouts were a personal choice and no Uniforms were needed, meals were affordable and healthy.

School supplies consisted of note books and pens. That was it.

The result was a free thinking , educated group of graduates.

I just don't understand the system here , unless its aim is to produce what I see as tiny soldiers. Obedience that bows to authority.

FIRST THING , lose the Uniforms completely. Just my take on the situation.

5 hours ago, Georgealbert said:

Full ceremonial Boy Scout and Girl Guide uniforms will no longer be compulsory, with students permitted to wear only a neckerchief and cap alongside school uniforms or PE kits

Why do they have this regulation? Did Baden-Powell come to Thailand?

50 minutes ago, CMFarang said:

FIRST THING , lose the Uniforms completely. Just my take on the situation.

No, keep them. The kids look so neat & tidy, better than a lot of kids in UK.

The usual argument is that it levels up the economic situation of the poorer families, and prevents richer kids wearing fashion and bling.

I was so proud to wear my school uniform.

1 hour ago, CMFarang said:

FIRST THING , lose the Uniforms completely. Just my take on the situation.

Disagree. They are called a Uniform for a reason.

Hand-me-down uniforms? How humiliating for the child, broadcasting that their family is poor.

Anybody else here read that “aligning curricula with labour market needs” to “produce more than 1 million highly skilled workers” and using AI rather than human teachers sounds like brainwashing for future corporate drones?

I don’t think uniforms produce a uniform populace. The posh schools all have uniforms. It’s the quality of a critical education. To have a critical education, a students needs critical teachers. I’ve seen very few who ask questions and encourage students to ask questions.

I always thought Boy and Girl Scouts were mostly to compare notes for sex education. IMV, these are paramilitaries and breed fascism. (I quit the Cub Scouts.)

Plenty of money for free uniforms, free learning materials, free tuition and free lunches by cutting the bureaucrats who were paid handsome salaries to write this report.

And cutting the military.