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Following the recent sad story about a small autistic girl being bullied by older girls, the child’s mother has spoken to the media. She said that people had offered her family 30-50,000 baht to drop charges. This money would be useful but they are not accepting it. They want the law to run its course….
A group of students bullied an autistic and much younger child at their school in Phayao province, a video clip has revealed. The clip, which had caused uproar on social media and been shared more than 70,000 times before being deleted, has brought the problem of bullying at school into the spotlight. A survey by…
Heated debates about a teacher’s incorrect marking of a girl’s homework may sound like people are making a mountain of a molehill. Human errors, after all, are not unprecedented. But these debates, which spread like wildlife on social media, are not at all fruitless. They have at the very least nudged all sides to pay…
If Joy picked 12 mangoes and Joe picked eight more mangoes more than she did, how many mangoes did Joe pick? Conventional wisdom would suggest the answer is “20”, but for one first-grade math teacher somewhere in Thailand, the correct calculation is four. A woman posting on Facebook on Tuesday as Phuan Pennapa wanted to…
A Thai mother in Ang Thong has gone to the media for justice after she claimed that her 11 year old grade five daughter had been assaulted 28 times in front of 100 other students. Her crime? She had done nothing. But her three year sibling had failed to throw a chicken essence bottle in…
A Thai university student – identified only as Neung – has told the media how she took part in a sting operation at a short time hotel to expose a professor. The professor at a leading university was only giving good grades to attractive women if they slept with him. The student and her friends…
In Bangkok, public teacher exams were held at Triam Udom Suksa School in Pathum Wan district. There were more than 1,700 participants. According to Deputy Education Minister Udom Kachintorn who inspected the testing venue, the exams went smoothly with no reports of cheating. Interviews will be conducted on September 1st and results will be announced…
The Saturday School project is now back – to educate children, inspire its volunteers and benefit the public. Under the project, children can attend various extracurricular activities. “Our lives should not revolve only around school classes. After going to school from Monday to Friday, let’s learn about the real world and related skills on Saturdays,”…
A Thai teacher of physical education was effectively allowed to continue raping his students after an initial complaint. A student complained three years ago that she was forced to the floor by the teacher. But the claims of the girl were not properly investigated or acted upon. The teacher was just fined two days wages…
A mother has cried foul after her young son was humiliated by a teacher who put a note on his shirt that he owed Bt700 for the school fee. The names of the mother, her son and the school are being withheld. The mother posted a photo of her son wearing the school uniform shirt…