A tectonic change in Thai school system

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A tectonic change. Since 2003, Thai Government has raised mandatory school attendance from grade 6 to grade 9.
That might have had  (and probably is having ) a big impact on helpless uneducated girls that have had gained more of education under that law. And then go even further with schooling.
I beleive, that Thai goverment action has had a great impact. With 9 years of school , the girls are not left to clean the fish at fish tin factories.
My wife was one of them, 6 years of school. Cleaning fish at a Rayong factory. Propelled her through education, Ramkhaeng University, Thai Princess handing her UNI diploma, The Faculty of Economics, 4 years, full time. Can't even remember how many, hundreds and hundreds,  lessons I gave her in maths, mathematical statistics, integrals and differential equations.
The people arond her are her villagers, even camping one night, just to be there.

 When I had my first Thai woman, 1999, if she has a daughter, the kid would now be 25 years old. Hard to imagine that the child (now a young woman) would have taken the bars way.

Sure, there will always be prostitutes from up country, but as many reports say - less and less of them. Nothing like the abundance of the year 2000 or before.
Now, many do not even go with customers, according to web sites.

 

[My Penis is hungry]

It was very hard for that to happen. The struggles within government where conservatives believed the poor deserves to serve the rich, and "people from Isaan too stupid to learn". That's a direct quote from a Minister to me. 

 

Adult education is another milestone that took a lot of time to make happen. Once it was legal, then the doors opened and many people went back to study as you note but for a long time it was illegal! 

 

Crazy.

 

E-Government was illegal and the first person to do it was a young girl in an internet cafe who realised with this new thing called internet, combined with scanners and computers people in villages shouldn't have to travel to province capitals to get paperwork done. 

 

She caused a major drama in government circles by using common sense. To this day I doubt she even knows or is even remembered. 

 

A lot of the change started in the Ministry of Education with Khunying Kasema, and others, but she was particularly good.

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March of the graduates, March 11. 2009. Ramkhanhaeng University, Bangkok. My wife, first up on the left.  She had to travel for the ceremony from Japan, something that she could not miss. Whole her village knew she was a Uni graduate.
That is what I love to see in Thai, not Soi Cowboy or Nana (had seen them well before, participated, I must admit).
Not a big thing for anywhere, but for this site, she told me, hardly any of the girls knew how to put on and wear the mandatory stockings. RIP Khun Sanuk and several other old members, Jigger too, had seen us at the Gulliver Fridays 6pm, way back, 2002.