A respected school in Thailand’s Chanthaburi province has clarified its position after being accused on the ‘Bad Student’ Facebook page of sending students with low behavioural scores to a military camp for training. The faculty insisted that shut supervision during this system ensured no violence occurred, and the exercise aimed to enhance students’ self-discipline.
According to the director of Benchamarachuthit School in Chanthaburi, the behavioural improvement camp was held on March 2 to 3 to help students observe the school’s disciplinary rules. Prior to this, the school had set a timeframe (February 1 to 17) for over 300 students with behavioural scores under 60 to take part in community service actions to increase their scores. By the end of those actions, about 150 students nonetheless had scores beneath 60. The school then held a gathering with the student’s parents to hunt permission for 120 of the one hundred fifty students to attend the behavioural enchancment camp.
Most of the collaborating college students have been from grades 9, 10, 11, and 12. The faculty assigned the Deputy Director of Human Resources Management, the venture coordinator, and pupil affairs lecturers to oversee and monitor the camp activities intently, ensuring no violent incidents occurred during the two-day, one-night programme. The security of the students was emphasised as a high priority in the course of the activities, the director said.
Consequently, after the completion of the programme (more than three months ago), no complaints have been obtained, and as of June 6, all grade 9 and 12 college students successfully graduated, receiving their education certificates with none obstacles for enrolment in larger schooling institutions.
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