webfact Posted June 25, 2021 Share Posted June 25, 2021 Daily News reported that comment was widespread on Facebook after a post on Udonthani Update by the relative of a 15 year old student. The M4 (fourth year of secondary school) student needed emergency surgery when doctors found her spine bent after she complained of great pain. An appeal for group A blood was made though this was stood down after the family received the required donation. The poster said that doctors thought the spine problem was caused by carrying a heavy school bag. This prompted many people online to comment on that issue. -- © Copyright Thai Visa News 2021-06-25 - Whatever you're going through, the Samaritans are here for you - Follow Thaivisa on LINE for breaking COVID-19 updates 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post AlexRich Posted June 25, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted June 25, 2021 I don’t think a heavy school bag leads to that level of deformity. I suspect a medical reason underpins it, otherwise you’d expect Thai children to resemble a gang of Quasimodo’s. ???? 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post EVENKEEL Posted June 25, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted June 25, 2021 The heavy bags are terrible. I pay decent money at an English program school. I sent an email to the principal stating lockers for students was needed. No response. No reason to drag books around that aren't needed. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Moonlover Posted June 25, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted June 25, 2021 7 minutes ago, AlexRich said: I don’t think a heavy school bag leads to that level of deformity. I suspect a medical reason underpins it, otherwise you’d expect Thai children to resemble a gang of Quasimodo’s. ???? I agree. A lateral displacement like that, if cause by carrying a heavy load would displace the shoulders and they clearly are not. This is a medical condition called scollosis which most commonly occurs during puberty. 7 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Monday Posted June 25, 2021 Share Posted June 25, 2021 That looks like scoliosis but do students in Thailand still have textbooks?? I did at school and until 6 or 7 years ago at work. Now everything is on an iPad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richard_smith237 Posted June 25, 2021 Share Posted June 25, 2021 1 hour ago, webfact said: The poster said that doctors thought the sine problem was caused by carrying a heavy school bag. I’d be very worried about the quality of the Doctors if they are making such daft assumptions... .... unless of course the pupil has been required to carry an excessive weight in a back-pack all day every day for the past decade while no other student has. The half-witted conclusions seemingly well educated people make here in Thailand is often astonishing. (perhaps not just limited to Thailand, but I am here and this is what I see, here). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foreverlomsak Posted June 25, 2021 Share Posted June 25, 2021 38 minutes ago, Captain Monday said: That looks like scoliosis but do students in Thailand still have textbooks?? I did at school and until 6 or 7 years ago at work. Now everything is on an iPad. My daughter has moved to a new high school, she had so many text books that I nearly failed to lift / carry them, the pack must have been 18 in high and most books approx. A4 size. Exercise books was an additional pack. They gave her a timetable which shows the period times, the room numbers, the teachers names, but no subject names, so she needs to carry all the books all the time, at least for a couple of weeks. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crusader Posted June 25, 2021 Share Posted June 25, 2021 I just do not understand why some schools insist on students carrying all therir books home every day. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asquith Production Posted June 25, 2021 Share Posted June 25, 2021 16 minutes ago, Crusader said: I just do not understand why some schools insist on students carrying all therir books home every day. Because the school would have to buy expensive lockers/storage. Its cheaper to store the books at home 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MasterBaker Posted June 25, 2021 Share Posted June 25, 2021 ever heard about backpacks? 1 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EVENKEEL Posted June 25, 2021 Share Posted June 25, 2021 1 hour ago, Asquith Production said: Because the school would have to buy expensive lockers/storage. Its cheaper to store the books at home It's stupid the books have to be taken home every day. Lockers or cubby holes for books is needed. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moonlover Posted June 25, 2021 Share Posted June 25, 2021 1 hour ago, MasterBaker said: ever heard about backpacks? Every kid that passes my house on the way to and from school has a Backpack. And that's a lot of kids! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moonlover Posted June 25, 2021 Share Posted June 25, 2021 2 hours ago, richard_smith237 said: I’d be very worried about the quality of the Doctors if they are making such daft assumptions... .... unless of course the pupil has been required to carry an excessive weight in a back-pack all day every day for the past decade while no other student has. The half-witted conclusions seemingly well educated people make here in Thailand is often astonishing. (perhaps not just limited to Thailand, but I am here and this is what I see, here). I very much doubt whether that was the doctor's diagnosis. Netizens can be very imaginative people, as we should all know by now. And the press here aren't much better. ???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hotchilli Posted June 25, 2021 Share Posted June 25, 2021 4 hours ago, webfact said: The poster said that doctors thought the spine problem was caused by carrying a heavy school bag I'd find another hospital for the operation. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bangkok Barry Posted June 25, 2021 Share Posted June 25, 2021 When I was at school we had something called a desk where we kept our books overnight. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EVENKEEL Posted June 25, 2021 Share Posted June 25, 2021 23 minutes ago, Bangkok Barry said: When I was at school we had something called a desk where we kept our books overnight. Too many students for that. I had the same, desk I mean. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreasyFingers Posted June 25, 2021 Share Posted June 25, 2021 1 hour ago, Bangkok Barry said: When I was at school we had something called a desk where we kept our books overnight. You obviously did not go through the Wyndham system in Australia during the first years. The science books alone weighed 15 kilos and we did not have backpacks, just the usual school case of those days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bangkok Barry Posted June 25, 2021 Share Posted June 25, 2021 1 hour ago, GreasyFingers said: You obviously did not go through the Wyndham system in Australia during the first years. The science books alone weighed 15 kilos and we did not have backpacks, just the usual school case of those days. I didn't, no. I was schooled in London in the days when we didn't need to carry 15 kilos of books. Most books we needed were kept by the teacher and handed out for the lesson, as far as I remember. But they were free, and AFAIK in Thailand families have to buy their own books so leaving them in someone else's care wouldn't be trusted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ubonjoe Posted June 25, 2021 Share Posted June 25, 2021 A off topic post meant to deflect the topic has been removed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingstonkid Posted June 25, 2021 Share Posted June 25, 2021 5 hours ago, MasterBaker said: ever heard about backpacks? 5555 You definitely do not know anyone with kids in a Thai school. The backpacks are the problem. The kids have so many books and <deleted> that they have to carry that the bags weigh almost as much as some of the kids. I see a lot of the parents getting smart and buying the pull along bags they are a much better idea. When my daughter went to school and I went to school in grade 1 we did not need to take our books back and forth. We had desks that we could store them in and or tables at the back that we could pile them. When you see grandma straining to carry the bag and mom not being able to you know it has gone to far. Lockers are not necessary. What is necessry is for the schools to have home room teachers lock the classrooms when they are not in use. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Nojohndoe Posted June 25, 2021 Share Posted June 25, 2021 While I know that the weight and volume of books that some school kids have to lug back and forth can be beyond comfortable it is not that they are carrying them for such long duration as to cause spinal deformities . How much more time slumped in any position for hours and hours out of school time do so many now spend hours and hours fixated on a mobile phone? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pacovl46 Posted June 25, 2021 Share Posted June 25, 2021 It’s called ankylosing spondylitis. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
earlinclaifornia Posted June 26, 2021 Share Posted June 26, 2021 On 6/25/2021 at 12:20 PM, EVENKEEL said: The heavy bags are terrible. I pay decent money at an English program school. I sent an email to the principal stating lockers for students was needed. No response. No reason to drag books around that aren't needed. The bags are so heavy even as an adult I am shocked at how heavy my 4th grade girls is. Like you say, lockers for this books, etc. need to be made available so as to right this travesty. In the USA this solution has been in effect now for years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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