Cabinet scraps 24-year-old practice of teachers serving as school guards

[snoop1130]

 

The Thai cabinet scrapped an old school practice today, which had been imposed since 1999. It requires at least one teacher to take turns to be posted at their schools as a night guard, to protect property from potential intruders.

 

The decision follows a recent incident in which a female teacher on night guard duty was assaulted by an intruder in Chiang Rai province recently.

 

Government spokesman Chai Wacharonke said Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin told the cabinet meeting in Ranong province today that he feels sorry for the injured teacher, adding that he thinks the cabinet resolution from 1999 is outdated and irrelevant to present circumstances, when surveillance equipment and technology, as well as security companies, are available to do the night guard job instead.

 

Caption: File photo : A man attacks a female teacher in a school in Chiang Rai province.

 

Full story: Thai PBS 2024-01-23

 

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[ukrules]

Yeah, there were plenty of cctv and security companies around in 1999.

 

I had no idea a teacher was expected to fill in as a security guard overnight - were they also expected to work the following day?

 

I've never heard of anything so tarded in my life.

 

[HappyExpat57]

12 hours ago, ukrules said:

Yeah, there were plenty of cctv and security companies around in 1999.

 

I had no idea a teacher was expected to fill in as a security guard overnight - were they also expected to work the following day?

 

I've never heard of anything so tarded in my life.

 

 

I've worked in about eight different schools in Thailand and never heard of this.

[ikke1959]

I knew teachers must do it, but only Thai teachers...and I have never understood it..A teacher seems to be in school 24 hours a day 7 days a week . If they are not teaching there is always something else for them that they have to do. And indeed this is just on of the outdated laws.. There are so many to go for updating

[hotchilli]

13 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Government spokesman Chai Wacharonke said Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin told the cabinet meeting in Ranong province today that he feels sorry for the injured teacher, adding that he thinks the cabinet resolution from 1999 is outdated and irrelevant to present circumstances, when surveillance equipment and technology, as well as security companies, are available to do the night guard job instead.

That costs money, the teachers did it for free....

[hotchilli]

51 minutes ago, HappyExpat57 said:

 

I've worked in about eight different schools in Thailand and never heard of this.

Common practice in my neck of the woods... not just night time but weekends too day/night shifts.

[Pouatchee]

13 hours ago, ukrules said:

Yeah, there were plenty of cctv and security companies around in 1999.

 

I had no idea a teacher was expected to fill in as a security guard overnight - were they also expected to work the following day?

 

I've never heard of anything so tarded in my life.

 

 

absolutely true. i worked at a brand new gvt school once, and the only reason the foreigners did not have to do the night watch was because we would have been helpless in case of emergency. but some thais did want us to partake. and yes... the guards do have to work the next day.

 

the teaching trade is very outdated and underpaid in thailand. should get rid of the dinos at the top first...

[bigt3116]

The schools that I worked in, it was only the male teachers who had this duty.

[herfiehandbag]

2 hours ago, ikke1959 said:

I knew teachers must do it, but only Thai teachers...and I have never understood it..A teacher seems to be in school 24 hours a day 7 days a week . If they are not teaching there is always something else for them that they have to do. And indeed this is just on of the outdated laws.. There are so many to go for updating

Teachers are " exploited" in many such ways. They are supposedly limited to 20 ( I think) teaching hours per week, but these and many other duties are laid on top. A six day 7.00am to 5.00pm week " in school" is by no means uncommon, in term or school holidays.

 

They put up with it because, as a teacher in a Government School they have huge security of tenure, a regular salary, access to favourable car and housing loans, medical care and a pensionable retirement, after, I think, 25 years service.

 

Also of course, when "in school" they are relatively unsupervised and able to devote time to their own activities and businesses.

Edited January 24 by herfiehandbag

[mikebell]

15 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

he thinks the cabinet resolution from 1999 is outdated and irrelevant to present circumstances,

As is the use of army recruits looking after the Generals house and garden.  Will this be abolished too?  I am sure the Senate would have something to say!

[john donson]

i guess you must do something for those bottomless loans they get from banks