in thailand art is usually seen as

in thailand art is usually seen as something that belongs to the rich but dek rak pah is a new kind or art school for students from poor farmilies in the northeast kemthong morach the school's founder make
that ordinary schools make students learn their text books and fear authority at his school the small group of students their own rules they also do the cleaning and work in the vegetable garden do they paint and erite but they also are encouraged to gain and to participate in compaigns against large devebpment projects often short of money the students help to by putting on puppet shows and exhibitions of their paintings one of kemthong is to show that children from lsan are just in tell iqent and creative as from rich farmilies in bangkok who so often tend to them his school proves that the only reason lsan children somethings achieve less is that they are not given equal opportunities