PUBLISHED: 23 Apr 2024 at 17 :47
Teachers and students will share the same restrooms in all schools run by the Office of the Basic Education Commission ( Obec), in a significant policy change.
On a social media platform run by the Education Ministry, users have immediately expressed their disapproval of the shift.
In a information posted on the agency’s Facebook accounts, Obec secretary-general Thanu Wongchinda announced that there will no longer be separate toilets for teachers and students.
The speech came with hashtages, two of them saying #fromnowoneverythingmustbeequal and #studentsandteacherscansharetoilet.
Toilets may be separated just by sex, males and females, the official said.
Education Minister Permpoon Chidchob’s plan included a change that was component of a campaign to clean the bathrooms in schools. The secretary “has assigned the BEC to improve school toilet globally so that students and teachers may share and they must be clean,” the minister said. the Facebook information stated.
The secretary had recently surprised people by expressing his admiration for the North Korean educational program. and the strict skill imposed on children it.
Obec will begin improving toilets second at its 9,700 smaller schools with no more than 80 students, and afterwards at larger schools. But, the shared bathroom coverage may be introduced at all universities this quarter, the official said.
A survey according to Obec, more than half of kids showed they desired cleaner bathrooms at universities. ” Toilet for teachers are god. One post made during the review was that” restrooms for kids are hell.”
Ekkachai Keesukhaphan, a former Obec table chair, criticised the plan, saying the committee is addressing the issue in the incorrect manner.
Mr Ekkachai told Matichon Online that all toilet at schools, both for teachers and students, needed to be more hygiene, but students should also have value for their educators. He warned that if there was no barrier between teachers and students, Thai culture might experience.
The committee functions as an assistant to the payment.
Comments posted following the agency’s statement said students ‘ toilets were ugly because the children made no effort to maintain them fresh or to support the school staff, who were overworked.
” Private toilets for the exclusive use of executives should be available for use by teachers, students and other staff because also,” one commenter wrote.