A recommendation by the World Bank in 2018, for the merger of small schools in Thailand to reduce education inequality, may have struck the right chord with those in charge of education – but definitely not with a seventh grader in Ratchaburi, a province not far from Bangkok.
“I think studying in a small school within my community is like studying in my comfort zone. Otherwise, I would have to travel to another school located downtown,” said Waen Noeur-an, a seventh-grader at Phothawatthanasenee school, a junior high school in Ratchaburi.
She graduated from the school about a year ago and was invited to seminar on small schools in Bangkok to share her experience and thoughts. Speaking to Thai PBS World, she said her life at Wat Kok Thong has been best memory.
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