'New breed' teachers take over in Pattani
A crop of "new breed" teachers have taken up their posts at schools in Pattani, replacing those who requested to move out of the southern province's violence-prone areas.
They came from the “new breed teacher” project of the Southern Border Provinces Administration Centre, which aims to upgrade education in the five-province area, Pattani Governor Pramuk Lamul said yesterday.
The situation in Pattani is getting better under tightened security measures, Pramuk said,
Due to recent attacks on teachers, about 1,300 schools in Pattani, Narathiwat and Yala have suspended classes due to safety concerns.
Especially hard hit was Ban Tha Kam Cham School in Pattani’s Nong Chik district, where gunmen killed the school’s headmistress last month, prompting three teachers to leave for other schools.
Pramuk welcomed the “new breed” teachers. “The centre has already provided our province enough teachers,” he said.
In Narathiwat, 118 teachers have requested to move to safer schools in the province; 80 others have requested to move out of Narathiwat. Soldiers have been teaching classes in some schools that have been left without enough teachers.
Teachers have also asked to move out of schools in Yala.
