Thai Education Standards 'In Free Fall'

[lannarebirth]

I'm always surprised when some posters never draw any correlation between these two things. "The Thai education system has been in freefall for 30 years" and "The Democrats haven't won an election in 30 years". Then they blame the "elites".

Because the 'elites', whoever they are, are not aligned to any particular party.

Correct. They own all of them so no matter who is in charge of this moronocracy, they still pull the strings.

Not correct. The "elites" don't send their children to public schools and never have. If you want to blame anything blame Thailand's zoning laws (or lack therof). Here in Chiang Mai I'm watching 10 M baht homes being buit to the Thai equvalent of "the projects". The places Thai governments house poor people. Due to Thai culture, no Thai who just spent 10M baht on a house is going to allow their child to go to the same school as these kids who come from the projects. Hence they'll send them to private schools and the government schools will only get worse.

[attrayant]

I have taken the liberty of bolding a sentence in your contribution...

Is it permissible to turn an adjective into a verb?

Verbing weirds language.

[ccarbaugh]

Just today, I had a Thai PhD, (Assistant Director of a college,) get genuinely angry at me simply because I put her in a position where she was required to think!

[Reasonableman]

Just today, I had a Thai PhD, (Assistant Director of a college,) get genuinely angry at me simply because I put her in a position where she was required to think!

So it was actually a valuable learning experience for you. ;-)