Kid came home from school with a letter yesterday ........ government school closed until end of month to prevent COVID spread.

They'd only been back 2 weeks.

i cant remember when my boy lst ent to school. He s on work from home for the forseeable it seems.

only 7 out of 35 students in his class log in for the classes. 

Adults often don't follow the covid rules, it's very unlikely that kids will.  Schools probably won't go back to normal for a long time.  Definitely in Bangkok, but probably in major cities as well.  It only takes one case.

 

Having teachers vaccinated is meaningless as it doesn't stop spread from them or from other kids.  I can't see schools returning fully until most people are vaccinated and if the kids catch it they aren't going to kill their parents or grandparents.  Could be that they'll keep closing them until the kids are vaccinated as well.

12 minutes ago, nikmar said:

only 7 out of 35 students in his class log in for the classes.

 

And only one is actually taking part.

I didn't know any schools were open... 

 

We were back in session for 1 week in June - and have been online learning for the last 2 weeks.

 

Do you know if there was any covid? at school? in CM?

AFAIK none of the schoolkids in Chiang Rai got back to school after the last holidays. My Thai quasi-grand-daughter has been in the house since the holidays ended.

I know a school supervisor. He told me they're just writing off the first half of this school year. All students will pass with a minimum unless they want to take some online tests. They hope to get back to SOME kind of actual teaching after October break.

Same in our little province of Nongbualamphu. My son told me on Sunday 'no school tomorrow'. Sure enough, school closed for two weeks. Local swimming pool locked shut yesterday. Maybe Thailand is under lockdown and no-one has told us! Not even Johnson could pull that one.............. 

Two weeks!

Friend of mine in the UK said local schools opened and off his kids went.

That afternoon announcement all local schools closed again.

At least your kids got 14 times the education his did!

Your own children at home round the clock. Horrors! Or do they belong to others? 555

 

Seriously tho...sounds absolutely dreadful.

It's pretty sad what they are doing to this current generation. 
What skill do kids need nowadays in order to wait at the feet of the wealthy class.
"You'll own nothing and you'll be happy."
The WEF crowd will need to kill dinosaurs like us off.  I'm not waltzing into that dystopian paradigm willingly.  As far as killing us off? They seem to be on that.  "Take the asymptomatic farang and lock him into the packed, high-density field hospital.  He shouldn't come out except feet first with a toe tag."
But the kids?  Totally sucks mate.  Although there is no such thing as "home schooling" here, if it was my kid I'd be looking at the home-schooling program material in the US and working with my kid on my own.  But fully depending on the school system long term?  Children may not be taught STEM, but they will be taught SERVE in the upcoming neo-feudalism.  I'd be teaching my kid how to think on their own as opposed to simply accepting what they are told.  Someone needs to carry on and be a total PITA for the status quo. <laughs>

^{Know your place serf! <whack whack whack!>}

11 hours ago, J Town said:

I know a school supervisor. He told me they're just writing off the first half of this school year. All students will pass with a minimum unless they want to take some online tests. They hope to get back to SOME kind of actual teaching after October break.

I think thats optimistic.  

Bummer....

16 hours ago, BangkokReady said:

 

And only one is actually taking part.

And doesn't really understand and never will because kids are forbidden to ask questions to their teachers.

3 hours ago, MrJ2U said:

I think thats optimistic.  

In other words there's a big gap in the kids knowledge development, and as it gets down to lower level classes this has even bigger longer-term negative impact because the big gaps are foundations. 

One disaster after the other with no end in sight.

 

This is one horrible, <deleted> up world we live in now. I absolutely hate it.

10 hours ago, MrJ2U said:

I think thats optimistic.  

He thinks that's optimistic as well.

7 hours ago, scorecard said:

In other words there's a big gap in the kids knowledge development,

My kid watches Youtube all day.

It's really expanding his English vocab, much more than the Thai government school ever did.

36 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

My kid watches Youtube all day.

It's really expanding his English vocab, much more than the Thai government school ever did.

Good point,  my son puts boundaries on what his kids watch and total hours per day.

 

He and his wife did some scanning of Youtube and made a long list of Youtube vids that might be interesting for their kids, but kids also encouraged to search out other subjects.

 

Bottom line, all 3 kids (16, 10, 6 yo) now watch youtube rather than cartoons etc. 

 

Sixteen year old (speaks advanced English) always worried about her maths marks has found numerous sites which have helped a lot to improve her maths abilities.  

3 hours ago, J Town said:

He thinks that's optimistic as well.

Optimists.

Should be no problem for TV members. THey probably get smarter and more streetwise when the TV members teach themselves (homeschooling) . Well according to all the comments on TV anyway.

 

It’s not so bad, we’ll, certainly not as bad as people are saying that the children aren’t going to school. After all, what do the children actually learn at school? They only learn, just the same as we all did, to conform and learn enough to pass a test at the end of the year. They aren’t taught how to open a business, run a business, manage a family, etc. I know that I didn’t really start learning anything useful until I left school and got out in to the real world and experience it. As for Thai schools, even more so and having my son at hole is great for us as a family anyway.

6 hours ago, SomchaiCNX said:

Should be no problem for TV members. THey probably get smarter and more streetwise when the TV members teach themselves (homeschooling) . Well according to all the comments on TV anyway.

 

I'm struggling to see that a large number of TV farang would be highly successful at home teaching regardless of their own education levels.

 

Home teaching is not easy, many folks aren't really suitable. 

4 hours ago, Falcon said:

It’s not so bad, we’ll, certainly not as bad as people are saying that the children aren’t going to school. After all, what do the children actually learn at school? They only learn, just the same as we all did, to conform and learn enough to pass a test at the end of the year. They aren’t taught how to open a business, run a business, manage a family, etc. I know that I didn’t really start learning anything useful until I left school and got out in to the real world and experience it. As for Thai schools, even more so and having my son at hole is great for us as a family anyway.

In fact at all levels they are taught (by the Thai ed. system/methodology) what the answer is but not taught why it's the correct answer. 

Teach children to learn.

Teach them to find the answer.

 

On 7/7/2021 at 11:00 AM, 1FinickyOne said:

I didn't know any schools were open... 

 

We were back in session for 1 week in June - and have been online learning for the last 2 weeks.

 

Do you know if there was any covid? at school? in CM?

Yep, Mae Jo, but they've closed all Kindies and primary schools 'till the end of the month.

7 minutes ago, Albaby said:

Yep, Mae Jo, but they've closed all Kindies and primary schools 'till the end of the month.

is that yep to schools being open or to there being covid? 

4 minutes ago, 1FinickyOne said:

is that yep to schools being open or to there being covid? 

Sorry, Covid in Mae Jo Schools.

Most of everything can be taught online however it is that most parents are clueless themselves nor teaching their kids anything. There is dozens of sites like https://brilliant.org/ around nowadays too.

 

Anyway, I really do not see how they make all this work as well, how are normale families that take care of their kids supposed to work if schools keep closing down too. I almost start to think I have make plans leaving TH before it's too late, seems this country/continent is gonna be on fire and it never really helps to then be the white foreigner standing out in any crowd, I guess. They would hand us to the Chinese as easy as they did with the Japanese in WW2.

On 7/7/2021 at 9:27 AM, J Town said:

I know a school supervisor. He told me they're just writing off the first half of this school year. All students will pass with a minimum unless they want to take some online tests.

A recent survey has just been released that assessed the children's frontal, temporal and parietal lobes of the brain.    Experts are at a loss as to why,  with almost no schooling for two years,   98% of all children exhibited a marked increase in size for those areas of the brain.    

I hardly ever went to school.    No wonder I'm so smart ...............