Schools in Narathiwat are shuttered until next week
All schools in 13 districts of Narathiwat will continue suspending their classes until next week following brutal killings of three teachers in the province on Monday.
Sanguan Indrarak, president of Narathiwat Teachers' Federation, said that all classes in 300 schools in 13 districts in the province will be cancelled this week and will be resumed on June 18."We decided to cancel all classes for now as our morality and spirit have completely been down following the separate killings of our three teachers on Monday," Sanguan said. He was speaking after attending an urgent meeting of senior teachers and educational administrators and chaired Khunying Kasama Worawan, secretary general of the Basic Education Commission. Two Buddhist teachers were shot inside the library of Ban Sakoh School in Si Sakhon district in front of their students. In a separate attack, a male teacher was shot dead in a shop in Rangae district. He was hit six times by AK-47 fire in the head and body. After the attacks, all schools in the province cancelled their classes. What the teachers and students wanted at the soonest was the strengthening of security including more deployment of soldiers to each school. And we need 24-hour protection for schools that are located in risky areas," he said. The Nation
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