Interior Ministry will hold discussions with Education Ministry about the possibility of reintroducing civics classes to the school curricula, to instil an awareness of unity, duty, ethics and brotherhood among Thai students, in the hope of reducing violent inter-school rivalries.

 

Interior Minister Anutin Charnvirakul floated the idea following the shooting near the Scared Heart Convent School in Khlong Toei last Saturday, in which a school teacher was killed and one vocational student was seriously injured. The shooting is thought to have been the result of rivalry between two vocational colleges in Bangkok.

 

Anutin said that civics courses were taught in the past, but were scrapped in recent years for no apparent reason, adding that he sees the need for the courses to be revived to teach the ethics and duties of Thai citizens.

 

Caption: Deputy Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul

 

Full story: Thai PBS 2023-11-13

 

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31 minutes ago, snoop1130 said:

teach the ethics and duties of Thai citizens.

Corruption 101 will be the 1st unit tought within the course.

6 minutes ago, dinsdale said:

Corruption 101 will be the 1st unit tought within the course.

 

Probably not.  Ethics and duties are only for the little people, and they are not supposed to be corrupt.  The kids of the wealthy in their expensive private schools won't be taught this fascist nonsense.

7 minutes ago, Foxx said:

 

Probably not.  Ethics and duties are only for the little people, and they are not supposed to be corrupt.  The kids of the wealthy in their expensive private schools won't be taught this fascist nonsense.

Would you like to borrow a little bit of sense of humour from me?

Anutin's hairline 

 

is starting to follow a disturbing precedent:

 

  

So does 💩

 

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Anutin floats

 

Another "floater".

 

 

Inter-voke school violence and rivalries are actually stoked by the powers that be. These gangs have served as a para-military force in previous "conflicts" between the "government" and the uppity plebes.

 

 

"Civics" are already taught in Thai schools, it's called "prostration".

 

 

Is this another attempt to define 'Thainess'?