Political turmoil is not only affecting people, private and state agencies and schools, but also tutorial schools near the redshirt protest site.
Arisara Tanapakit, deputy director of Enconcept EAcademy, a popular English language tutorial school said a branch at Siam Discovery had already closed.
Arisara ,who better known as an English language tutor named Kru P Nan, said she had to cancel all courses at the Siam Discovery branch for the security of students and because of the shopping complex's renovation plans. All have had to move to other branches. And although the branch has closed, she must still pay a rental of around hundreds of thousand baht a month.
A chemistry tutorial school, Pure Chem Centre, has been told by parents it should suspend classes as they were afraid violence near the rally site would harm their children travelling to school.
Uraiwan Sivakul or Ajarn Ou, director and chemistry tutor of the school, said she received lots of emails, phone calls and letters from parents whose children had registered to take courses with her and were concerned for their children's security. They had urged her to suspend classes.
However, the majority of students want Ajarn Ou to continue. They are afraid they will not be tutored for the whole chemistry course before taking tests for scores in the university central admissions system, she said.
Ajarn Ou said she was ready to pay back students who had already paid for courses but could not come to classes.
Kru P Nan provides selflearning videos of her postponed classes for students at every branch.
However, the famous Kru Lilly tutorial school at Siam Centre remains open despite feeling the effects of the protest.
Kitnanoch Rojanasupya, better known as Kru Lilly, a Thai language tutor, disclosed that parents were worried about their children's security, many keeping them home to study even though it upset the children.
The redshirt road blocks have also disrupted students travelling to tutorial schools, including two inside Wannasorn Building near Phya Thai intersection. Irregular BTS Skytrain timetables are another problem and many students have avoided using the BTS.
Fang, 18, expressed unhappiness over the protests that caused BTS' closure. They meant she had to leave home early in order to arrive on time and avoid traffic jams.
Mew, 17 and K, 16, said the redshirt protest had affected their school lives.
"Sometimes, when I couldn't come to study here due to the redshirt rally, I had to make up classes for my tutorial school course," said K. They wanted the red shirts to end their protest soon.
Pranee Khamnuansakunee said her daughter missed new course classes in the Siam area for three days because she could not get to them. Pranee added that parents had to keep checking updated news about the protest and avoid blocked areas. She was worried the protest would last for a long time and mysterious killers would lurk in the Wannasorn Building, as they had appeared in several places before.
The situation at Siam Discovery is lonely and silent as several tutorial school have closed owing to the red shirt blockade of Rajprasong intersection. Wannasorn building, however, is full of students studying continuously after transferring from other tutorial school branches.
With concern for student security, soldiers continue to guard the building while lots of parents are seen accompanying their children there. Among them is Supaksiri Ranjuandee, 42, a housewife, who came from Prachuabkhirikhan province to stay in Bangkok to guard her daughter and is among parents who accompany their children to the building.