Locals step up to help after Phitsanulok school suffers staff crisis!

 

Picture: Thai Rath

 

A small school in Phitsanulok in northern Thailand has lost nearly all its teaching staff because of compulsory retirement.

 

But fortunately some locals are responding to calls for temporary teachers so that the students don't miss out on lessons.

 

Pracha Samakhee school in Tha Chang sub-district found itself in a spot when four if its five teaching staff had to stop work this week - the end of September when civil servants reach the end of their careers at 60.

 

This left only the school director Preecha Tunapong who has been desperately putting out adverts for volunteers to work for 5,000 baht a month in the meantime.

 

So far the children have a soldier to teach code of conduct lessons and there is even a monk doing art classes.

 

Hopefully the children will have some other replacements after the upcoming school holidays.

 

Source: Thai Rath

 

-- © Copyright Thai Visa News 2017-09-27

49 minutes ago, webfact said:

A small school in Phitsanulok in northern Thailand has lost nearly all its teaching staff because of compulsory retirement.

Maybe this was something they had the knowldge of 1 year ago too. Why wait do do something until it´s to late. Guess it´s time to sack the director too.

 

49 minutes ago, webfact said:

Pracha Samakhee school in Tha Chang sub-district found itself in a spot when four if its five teaching staff had to stop work this week - the end of September when civil servants reach the end of their careers at 60.

Guess they are not included in the old people get back to work scheme. Must be a big miss by the authorities.

 

50 minutes ago, webfact said:

This left only the school director Preecha Tunapong who has been desperately putting out adverts for volunteers to work for 5,000 baht a month in the meantime.

Why in the world would they have to work for a lower salury? Now it almost sounds like the retirement object is flying out the window. Here it sounds like the school don´t want to pay the people working. It´s already a fact that uneducated teachers have the same knowledge as the educated ones in Thailand. Therefore they should have the same salury.

"Compulsory Retirement", that must have come as a bit of a surprise!

The heart of the problem - a small school.

Limited funding ...

So nobody knew 1, 2, 3 years ago that a large percentage of the teachers were retiring together in 2017? 

No plan was put into place? No attempts made to secure new/young teachers for 2017? 

Mai bpen rai... 

 

These things just happen, we can't blame the school,  after all who on earth could have foreseen people turning 60 exactly  12 months after their 59th birthday.

 

 

1 hour ago, djayz said:

So nobody knew 1, 2, 3 years ago that a large percentage of the teachers were retiring together in 2017? 

No plan was put into place? No attempts made to secure new/young teachers for 2017? 

Mai bpen rai... 

 

There was plan for Chinese notebooks...

2 hours ago, trogers said:

There was plan for Chinese notebooks...

And there was a plan for learning more Chinese, because the ASEAN language of communication is English.