Online Uproar Forces School To Cancel One-By-One Greeting Policy

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Online Uproar Forces School To Cancel One-By-One Greeting Policy

By  Teeranai Charuvastra, Staff Reporter

 

  

Students line up in front of Udonpittayanukoon School in Udon Thani on Monday.

 

UDON THANI — We all know what it’s like to be stuck in traffic for more than an hour in Thailand. But how about being stuck in an hour-long line to enter your own school?

 

Five thousand Udonpittayanukoon School students in Udon Thani found themselves in a chaos when school opened Monday. Under a new order from the director, they were required to line up and properly greet, or waii, their teachers at the gate – one by one. The change resulted in a long line snaking around the school and prompted many students to complain on social media.

 

Full story:  http://www.khaosodenglish.com/news/2017/07/05/online-uproar-forces-school-cancel-waii-greeting-policy/

 

-- © Copyright Khaosod English 2017-07-05

[tifino]

 

well... they just don't make kids like they used to!!

 

 

any kid who didn't partake, would have been wai out of line

[rkidlad]

Where some teachers need that coffee in the morning to get them through the day, other teachers need that wye of validation for their fragile egos. Well done, director. Just stick to collecting those brown envelopes. 

 

Is this school or military camp?

[rwdrwdrwd]

Glad to see the educators demonstrating their critical thinking skills.

[tomacht8]

The school director does not seem to have thought about the effects of his order. It represents the existing level of education very well.

[Bluespunk]

Well at least the kids "will know" who they are...

 

[Bluespunk]

“The act of waii is not only a policy, it’s the identity of Thainess,” school director Sujin Khaokaew said Tuesday.

He added, “School does not only teach academic lessons to students, it must also teach Thai manners, which is the identity of our culture.”

 

Conform

 

Obey

 

Wait in line 

 

Still at least I now know what "Thainess" is. 

[KhaoNiaw]

The kids all wai anyway. Crazy to make them line up and do it one by one.

[Bluespunk]

"School director Sujin admitted the policy led to long lines, but blamed teachers for positioning themselves too close to the gate which blocked the flow of students. Teachers have now been moved to stand and receive the waii inside the school compound, he said.

“Kids these days don’t have much patience,” Sujin said. “So, apart from teaching academic lessons to them, we have to teach them how to be patient.”

 

It's going to be a long, long, long school year, kids.

[johncat1]

This has  been the policy at every school I have worked in or  visited  But the " gate duty "  was only a small group of teachers accompanied by some students But we had our duty 1 time a week. it never caused delays because it ws just the quick greeting wai not the full low stoop wai

Udon Pit is a very large school situated on a very busy road . I cannot understand why there were problems unless the teachers were stopping every student and making them wai every  one of them individualy , instead  of a quick  wai as they were walking which is the normal way 

[ddavidovsky]

Gleichschaltung.

[Moonmoon]

They are just prepping them up for the traffic jams later in life.

[Nigeone]

How will this work when it rains ..wet wais lol 

[YetAnother]

1 hour ago, webfact said:

Under a new order from the director,

and ask this brainless director and after all the irrational excuses, the answer will boil to to :'because i can';

ego problem

[stephen tracy]

"the director defended it as a necessary means to teach youngsters to respect their elders and observe Thai culture." Absolutely right. These kids need attitude adjustment.  They learn their bad behaviour from watching farang movies.

[WhizBang]

I see another member of Thailand's brain trust has been appointed as director of this school.  Way to go sir.  You have just demonstrated Thainess to the world. 

[soalbundy]

2 hours ago, Bluespunk said:

“The act of waii is not only a policy, it’s the identity of Thainess,” school director Sujin Khaokaew said Tuesday.

He added, “School does not only teach academic lessons to students, it must also teach Thai manners, which is the identity of our culture.”

 

Conform

 

Obey

 

Wait in line 

 

Still at least I now know what "Thainess" is. 

after all that waiing i wouldn't have thought that they had any time for academic lessons

[HooHaa]

2 hours ago, tomacht8 said:

The school director does not seem to have thought about the effects of his order. It represents the existing level of education very well.

yes, but now that the order has gone out he can still delay its implementation under section 44.

[Cadbury]

Little wonder the Thai education system is in a state of collapse when it operates along the lines of a military day camp.

 

Read this story from only 6 months ago and be horrified. Not hard to see what's coming. Welcome to the new North Korea.

 

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-12-23/thai-junta-introduces-idealogical-boot-camp-for-kindergarten/8145362

[stephen tracy]

3 minutes ago, Cadbury said:

Little wonder the Thai education system is in a state of collapse when it operates along the lines of a military day camp.

 

Read this story from only 6 months ago and be horrified. Not hard to see what's coming. Welcome to the new North Korea.

 

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-12-23/thai-junta-introduces-idealogical-boot-camp-for-kindergarten/8145362

Scary.  But thanks for brining it to my attention.  I lived in Damascus in 2003 and the school uniform for kids there was also a military style uniform.   I can't understand how the junta can keep getting away with this madness without people doing something about it. I know it's illegal to protest but enough people did, they couldn't stop it from happening. You can't arrest everyone.  The country is being run by a demented lunatic, and what's even more bizarre is foreigners on TV actually rushing to his defence.  I know a number of them have a pathological hatred of Thaksin but that doesn't mean you need to endorse the current maniac.

[Cadbury]

3 hours ago, stephen tracy said:

Scary.  But thanks for brining it to my attention.  I lived in Damascus in 2003 and the school uniform for kids there was also a military style uniform.   I can't understand how the junta can keep getting away with this madness without people doing something about it. I know it's illegal to protest but enough people did, they couldn't stop it from happening. You can't arrest everyone.  The country is being run by a demented lunatic, and what's even more bizarre is foreigners on TV actually rushing to his defence.  I know a number of them have a pathological hatred of Thaksin but that doesn't mean you need to endorse the current maniac.

This is why Prayut is trying to censure the media. He has his fingerprints are all over it. He doesn't want this to get out to the rest of the world. All Thai children will become soldiers. It is the cunning transformation of Thailand into militarisation.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-12-23/thai-junta-introduces-idealogical-boot-camp-for-kindergarten/8145362

 

Everyone should read this and spread it far and wide. Diplomats take note. POTUS take note.

[Lunchbob]

Forced wai protocol

[docshock13]

At least you can't blame the school and director for not preparing the students for the future. These poor kids have a lifetime of wai-ing and ass kissing to the PTB if they want to try and make something of themselves. 

[KhaoNiaw]

6 hours ago, stephen tracy said:

Scary.  But thanks for brining it to my attention.  I lived in Damascus in 2003 and the school uniform for kids there was also a military style uniform.   I can't understand how the junta can keep getting away with this madness without people doing something about it. I know it's illegal to protest but enough people did, they couldn't stop it from happening. You can't arrest everyone.  The country is being run by a demented lunatic, and what's even more bizarre is foreigners on TV actually rushing to his defence.  I know a number of them have a pathological hatred of Thaksin but that doesn't mean you need to endorse the current maniac.

It was just a special program that 180 kids participated in so it's not actually trying to make all kindergarten kids wear uniforms.

You really want people to go out and protest that? At least they're only wearing uniforms and not putting guns in the hands of the kids like lots of American parents seem happy to do.

[SABloke]

"Wai, Not"

 

"I say"

 

"Don't call I-say, my name is Ajarn Say"

[stephen tracy]

1 hour ago, KhaoNiaw said:

It was just a special program that 180 kids participated in so it's not actually trying to make all kindergarten kids wear uniforms.

You really want people to go out and protest that? At least they're only wearing uniforms and not putting guns in the hands of the kids like lots of American parents seem happy to do.

That and a lot more! Yeah!

[Damrongsak]

M-I-C-K-E-Wai  M-O-U-S-E.

 

 

Edited July 5, 2017 by Damrongsak

[Laab Muu]

7 hours ago, stephen tracy said:

I know it's illegal to protest but enough people did, they couldn't stop it from happening. You can't arrest everyone.  

No they can't arrest everybody, but they can start killing people again.

[Stargeezr]

This school has a very stupid staff indeed if not one of them had the brains to say, lets  go into the school

grounds so the line up of the students are not holding up traffic on the street. No brain power shown

by the director, as well.  Must be Thailand!!!

Geezer

[Laab Muu]

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Thai public schools are notorious for adopting rigid army-like disciplines adopted from the time when the country was ruled by a military regime six decades ago. Legacies of that era include mandatory army haircuts for boys and short hair for girls, corporal punishment and emphasis on hierarchy.