More than two million students are at risk of dropping out of school because of family poverty. To help the family, they quit their studies and start working.
This has emerged from a study by the Ministry of Education and the state fund Equitable Education (EEF) among 430.000 students who dropped out of school.
An EEF spokesperson emphasizes once again that early school leavers often accept low-paid and dangerous work, for example on construction sites. another example is selling flower garlands on the street, some sellers are only 12 years old.
The EEF is trying to improve the situation by increasing the financial contribution for poor students in the 2019-2020 school year. The aim is to prevent 800.000 pupils from dropping out of school to start working. Last year, 510.000 students succeeded.
The EEF has launched a new campaign for this: Chot Mai La Khru (Leave Letters for Teachers). The campaign features letters from students forced to leave school due to poverty. For example, a student of Mathayom 2 writes: “I left school because someone had to help my mother. Although I am not a student, I still want to go back to school to learn something.”
Source: Bangkok Post
At least this applies to BKK and also Pattaya nav photos: more than 95% of those children come from Cambodia and are often even rented out to beggars, who come to TH from there for 4 weeks (max residence time) to raise the cash in this way to splurge.
Which does not alter the fact that early school leaving is certainly a problem in poorer rural areas.
My cousin , dropped out of that school because he had a fight with a teacher
and just liked doing nothing more.
He is also not really smart and then went to work here and there ,
always only a few days until he had enough money,
which then went into cigarettes and lao kao.
Finally he met a nice girl,
who took him in hand.
He is now 17, just had a child with her
and works in agriculture for a minimum wage.
It makes a difference now that he left school ,
I do not think so . He chose it himself and not because he has to!
We have here at school and farang from England, who teaches,
but those kids just can't speak english.
He has told Min that sometimes he thinks he is talking to a wall .