Rural Kanchanaburi students struggle with lessons

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The Covid situation has affected nearly all walks of life in Thailand and throughout the world. In a rural location in Kanchanaburi, western Thailand students can be seen several kilometres outside of their villages. They stare at smartphones in their hands. They’re not making Tik Tok videos and they’re not playing games. They are in their online classes. The students struggle with a lack of Wi-Fi in their village so they have to take a motorbike ride out to places where they can get a signal. Even a local community leader acknowledged that Wi-Fi can be an issue and expressed […]

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9 hours ago, whitesnake said:

CHANOCHA'S GOVERNMENT simply DO NOT care!! A country full of uneducated 'drongos' is great for them as it suppresses any desire or ability to think independently! Free-thinkers are the only ones who can reject this dictatorship. The sooner Thaksin and Yingluck (the sexy one!!) return the better.  

Well I understand your sentiment and I agree with you that Thaksin is possibly the only PM with intelligence this country has had since 1932.  However with respect to much needed educational reforms it was a shame that whilst helping much of the poor by providing them with the 30 baht healthcare system, he did nothing with respect to putting in a modern era educational system fit for the 21st century rather than what exists currently. Perhaps he would have done given more time. Time of course he was not given in 2006 by the gun toting generals.