Education Ministry Proposes Rewards System for Positive Youth Behavior

Thailand’s Education Ministry is developing a proposed Social Credit system intended to reward good behavior among young people. The initiative forms part of the third phase of the National Moral Promotion Action Plan and would convert good deeds into measurable behavioural capital. Positive conduct could eventually be tied to practical benefits involving education, employment and access to government services. The plan is being developed alongside ethics programmes for children under 13, with several ministries studying age-appropriate approaches. Officials said the objective is to encourage lasting positive values, although detailed scoring, monitoring and implementation procedures have not yet been announced.

I guess holding the parents accountable for somchai's behavior is out of the question 🙃

2 minutes ago, howlee101 said:

I guess holding the parents accountable for somchai's behavior is out of the question 🙃

Wait you mean actually taking responsibility?

Just now, blaze master said:

Wait you mean actually taking responsibility?

Heaven forbid 🤪

At this stage, the proposal sounds less like a practical policy than a wishful prayer dressed up in bureaucratic language. Dream on. Although, come to think of it, this sounds more like a very bad dream. Or perhaps I was the one who had been dreaming all along.

We are running up against an old philosophical problem here: what is reality, and who gets to shape it? What exactly is a dream? Can dreams really be made to come true, and can fiction be turned into reality?

Rudolf Steiner might have called this moral imagination: the ability to imagine a better reality and then find practical ways of bringing it about. But that begins with the freely thinking individual—not with a ministry defining goodness, awarding points and attaching bureaucratic rewards to approved behaviour. A dream may inspire reality; a scoring system may merely turn somebody else’s dream into Somchai’s obligation.

Is the world now too spoilt for children to grow up normally—or have adults simply become too frightened to let them grow up freely?

7 hours ago, howlee101 said:

I guess holding the parents accountable for somchai's behavior is out of the question 🙃

yea, like in many western countries, you're mistaken if you think this is a thai problem, just look at the metal detectors at school gates in the US

9 hours ago, it is what it is said:

yea, like in many western countries, you're mistaken if you think this is a thai problem, just look at the metal detectors at school gates in the US

not disagreeing nor disputing your comment. I was commenting on the OP. Maybe you can compile a story about the problems of schools in western countries and I would submit the same comment.