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I think it is really alarming that most parents at our school think that it is the teachers' job exclusively to teach kids good manners. for example, if the teacher and the parent are talking, and two metres away the 5-year-old kid kicks a classmate who then starts crying, the parent wouldn't say a thing. they just insist on proper wais. the kids bring violent movies and cartoons to school every day (we have twenty minutes movie time before going to nap). there was an incident a few weeks ago, a Prathom 2 kid kicked a cleaning lady, it turned out the reason was "she is just a maid", and he had seen his dad do the same with their cleaning lady at home.
it is interesting to note that our Muslim Thai kids (about 30% of all students) are the most polite, disciplined, kind and responsible, they know how to share and they truly respect teachers and each other.

I must admit, when I went to the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York city, not to stay there of course, to expensive, but my mate who has a film distributor business and is a film buff, he wanted to go into the same bar as Al Pacino in scent of a woman, any way I must admit they were very courteous, specially when my mate, was playing the part of drunken, Lieutenant Colonel Frank Slade from the movie.