The minister is standing his ground. Sukhavich has accused the opposition of trying to stall the country's educational development. But many wonder why Sukhavich would make gays in the classroom an issue at all given the sorry state of Thailand's school system. Classrooms often lack basic equipment. Teachers are poorly trained.
Students learn by rote.
Which brings up the minister's more costly misstep. Sukhavich says that he urgently needs information about the state of provincial schools. If he secretly handed out the money there would be something suspicious in that. But at the meeting Sukhavich said that he would use the survey results to justify asking for a bigger education budget next year. And Sukhavich suggested that he expected the legislators' support.