Remembering Amazing Thailand

Every week two teachers were assigned at the entrance of the school to greet the coming pupils and the parents or guardians who sent them off and sometimes help little tots get off the car. Basically, we just greet them good morning and although it seemed unnecessary since our school was in the heart of the campus but it is a Thai tradition that is strictly practiced in all schools whether it is a private or public school, international or Thai school.

What I didn’t like about it was that I had to start doing it at 6 am because some pupils arrived early or their parents sent them early because they had to go to work too. And I didn’t like it when we greet them good morning and they turned a deaf ear to us as if we were just a monument that they saw every day and they didn’t even notice we were there.

There were a couple of toddlers we had to pull away from the car every single day because they clang tightly to their mother and didn’t want to let go. Poor kids, they didn’t want to be separated from their parents at such a young age but they just had to stay at school because no one could look after them at home and their parents were busy at work.

I wish that when I get to be a mother I wouldn’t have to send my kids to school while they are very young. I want to be their first teacher.

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