Thread: Education Ministry inspired by Obama's policies

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GUIDELINES FOR PRE-SCHOOLERS

Education Ministry inspired by Obama's policies
SIRIKUL BUNNAG


Kasama: Educating parents the key



Barack Obama's education policies have inspired the Education Ministry to change its own policies in the early childhood sector.

Changes inspired by the US president-elect's platform will be introduced as guidelines in national education development for the 2009 academic year.

The Office of the Basic Education Commission (Obec) secretary-general Kasama Voravarn na Ayutthaya said Mr Obama's education policy matched Obec's plan to prepare pre-schoolers for entering kindergarten.

She urged directors of education zones to study Mr Obama's "Zero to Five" policy from his website and adopt it as a development guideline.

"Mr Obama's policy focuses on educating parents on how to properly raise their children. This is what we are still missing," she said.

Khunying Kasama said Obec wants to see all schools and education zones follow the policy, particularly with regards to educating parents on how to prevent their children from getting addicted to online games, and lapsing into bad behaviour.

A parents' group should be set up in each education zone to develop education standards, she said.

Meanwhile, the commission has set aside 426 million baht to buy personal computers for 1,290 small schools nationwide and another 33 million baht to buy 5,000 laptop computers for 100 schools next year under the "One Laptop Per Child" pilot project.

If the project proves to be successful, the commission would ask for more money to buy another 490,000 laptop computers for students in 2010 and 510,000 more laptop computers in 2011, she said.

Education Minister Srimuang Charoensiri said he wanted Obec, which received two-thirds of the ministry's budget this fiscal year, to use the money more prudently.

Part of the commission's budget should go into solving the shortage of teachers, particularly at remote schools, the minister said.

What a fucking load of horse shit. As expected of the MOE, they couldn't clean their own asses with a fucking tank full of water.

How is this going to help? I mean sure -- spend bucketloads of money on making infants and babies "smarter" then when they get to Mathayom, what the fuck happens then? Goddamn brick wall it is.

If the MOE wanted to improve things, first, maybe just MAYBE they should hire a fuckwit who is at least QUALIFIED to run things, and then perhaps... just PERHAPS they should consider getting kids OFF computers, rather than pouring money into buying MORE of them.


Goddamn.

Most of that article was okay, but how, pray tell, does a 'one laptop per child' policy help parents wean their children off computer games?

Strange.

Typically Thai. A new idea one day and forgotten two months latter.

It's tiring even thinking about it.

I've always suspected that Khunying Kassama and her Khunying Bouffant Brigade make important policy decisions by taping up index cards with ideas on the wall and throwing darts at them.

Works for me!

fuck all of them big hairs.

Originally Posted by WilliamBlake

Most of that article was okay, but how, pray tell, does a 'one laptop per child' policy help parents wean their children off computer games?

Strange.

Projects Willie, gangster politicians need projects. What could they skim off the price of a million laptops?