Join me, if you will on a Thailand adventure. All you’ll need to bring is an open mind and a somewhat vivid imagination.
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Imagine you are preparing your child for school. If your a parent this will be easy… If not a parent well then this is where the imagination portion if the exercise begins. Imagine they are dressed in a uniform. It’s Tuesday so it’s bright pink shirt day and black pants.
Imagine filling their school bag with used workbooks and donated notebooks from world vision. Imagine you drop them off at school and the school yard is full of students. Imagine they walk into their class room with 20 other students and here is no teacher. They will be unsupervised all day.
Imagine the only formal education they get weekly is an hour long session once weekly from a woman who is not entirely fluent in your child’s language.
Imagine the chaotic hours gone unsupervised.
Imagine your child has a learning disability. Imagine he could succeed with a little extra push.
Imagine the grade 6 competency test on the horizon which your child has little hope of completing.�@
I hope I have stirred your imaginations and your curiosity because for many children in Thailand this is reality. In America education is revered, respected and expected. It is a right for American children to be educated… No child left behind. In thailand there is no regard for education as a whole. There is no emphasis in reading, writing or arithmetic. While in American a child with autism is given special attention, in Thailand, from what I’ve noticed they are not given special anything, but share seats with one another for moral support. Illiteracy begets unemployment; unemployment, poverty and poverty, desperation. So where is the hope in all of this for the nation of Thailand. Well I’ll tell you. In the hands of a lady in purple…
