‘Zero dropouts’ billed as new school mantra

Bee Inthanon, 11, a fifth-grade student of Sin Rae Siam School in Ratchaburi’s Suan Phueng district, knows all about hardship. For him, studying is a luxury — second to putting bread on the table. He and his brother live with their grandparents in a small wooden shack in a property where Bee’s grandfather works. After school, or on his days off, Bee assists his grandmother as a cattle herder. Her salary was cut from 9,000 baht to 3,000 baht a month due to the pandemic. “Poor people have to endure hardship. We live hand to mouth because of a lack of money. Those rich people can live comfortably…

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