In my rural area, a lot of farm work, cutting sugarcane, and harvesting cassava, is done by immigrant workers. The employers say they cannot get Thai labour because they are too lazy. ( more than likely, they will not pay them enough) I know a dairy farm, they have two Lao workers, very good, they are too, they have 2 kids, one7-8 other one 3 ish, they get 9000 baht/month each, free accommodation/electric, and a bag 15kg rice/month. They are not alone, there are thousands more like them around the country, as they are helping the Thai economy they children should get free education, at least up to secondary school age, as most/all come from Lao, Burma, Cambodia. These being Buddhist countries, they should fit straight into the Thai school systems. Most of the problem goes back years, to the Vietnam war, when refugees were living on the Thai border in camps, the Thai government did support them, then, as you would suspect, no children went to Thai school, and since then it has been the same. I cannot see it changing. This has come up before, but all governments are the same; they will not change. Is it Thailand for the Thais only ??, unless they want some laboring work done.
