News Forum - Back to school in Phuket as governor’s order allows return to onsite learning

[Thaiger]

One of these provinces is doing its own thing… Despite central government recommending schools move to home learning until January 31, schools in Phuket have been told they can re-open. The Ministry of Education had advised Thailand’s schools to suspend in-classroom learning due to the rapidly-spreading Omicron variant, but Phuket governor Narong Woonciew has issued an order allowing schools on the southern island to re-open. A copy of the order was posted on the Facebook page of the Phuket Information Centre yesterday, stating that schools on the island can resume onsite learning for students of all ages. According to the […]

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[Ttalk]

Good news for the students.  Everything I have read from various countries shows that online learning is having an adverse effect on learning and mental health.  IQ's are down, depression and suicide are up.  That's a bad combination.

[Jason]

While this is a welcome change, I don't know that the education of children is the real reason. Omicron will take more people out of the workforce. If workers have to stay home to supervise and home school their children, that's even more detrimental to the workforce. So this might just be a move to try to guarantee a workforce to staff all those hotels. You can't operate one without staff.....