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Being a Thai parent is "tiring" when every school term comes with large expenses.
Free education for 15 years first materialized in Thailand after this matter was provided in the 1997 constitution. But more than 20 years have passed, Thai parents still have to shell out large sums of money every academic semester. Until the question arises whether free education really exists or not.
BBC Thai spoke with a mother of three children from Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya Province Those who reflected on the problem that even though they received support for their children's tuition from the state But she still has to pay for her child's school uniform and lunch. This is considered a small amount of money for a housewife who earns only 300 baht per day.
The manager of the Fund for Educational Equality explains the big picture to understand. Why isn't Thai education completely free? And why is the government doing the same per capita subsidy throughout the country? This will make the inequality between children studying in large and small schools even greater.
While the project leader of the sharing center Mirror Foundation which has made a mobile unit to distribute second-hand school uniforms to parents in various communities, expressing concern that Lower middle class families may be promoted to the lower middle class immediately. Because they are still unable to recover much from the COVID-19 crisis and are being aggravated by rising costs. It is no different from what parents who are in poverty are facing.
“I still don't have money to buy a dress for my child.” In the midst of the rain that is about to fall A number of parents are choosing school uniforms for their children, and the main thing is that they don't have to spend a single penny. Because it's a second-hand school uniform from the Shared Tor Center project. Mirror Foundation