Students look at samples of nutritionally-balanced meals at a school in Bangkok last month. The Office of the Basic Education Commission said that the content about poor-quality meals in its textbook was fictional. (Photo: Varuth Hirunyatheb)
Critics misjudged the content of a Thai-language textbook for grade 5 pupils by claiming it accepted malnutrition among young children, according to the Office of the Basic Education Commission (Obec).
Obec secretary-general Amporn Pinasa said on Sunday that the part of the “Pasa Patee” textbook for fifth-graders in question was in its ninth chapter on the value of life.
In the chapter, a schoolgirl who was an orphan learned that her classmate was frustrated with her parents’ decision not to…
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