PUBLISHED : 22 Jan 2024 at 04:30
The Office of the Basic Education Commission (Obec) is seeking cabinet approval for its request to allow the rehiring of school janitors to ease teachers’ burdens and allow them to focus on the core responsibilities of teaching.
Obec secretary-general Sub Lt Thanu Wongchinda was speaking in the wake of an assault on a primary school teacher at Bang Pong Klua School in Chiang Rai’s Muang district on Saturday.
Sub Lt Thanu said the attack highlighted the vulnerability of teachers and underscored the necessity of Obec’s proposal to rehire more than 14,000 school janitors nationwide.
Under a 1999 cabinet resolution, he said, government offices, including schools, are required to provide security measures…
