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Payment for tuition is coming due in a few days for the 2 daughters of my Thai girlfriend, Chili and Wasabi, aged 13 and 12.

While they have a village school only 500 meters from home, the instruction is suboptimal, so we placed them in a quasi-private school nearby. Image
But that tuition bill!

On the other hand, that dutiful mother; what's first and foremost...the essence of femininity, woman, and above all...mother.

My responsibilities are clear, rounding out the other essential: masculinity, manliness, responsibility, and duty.

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We chose that school because it's somewhat like a "charter school" in the US, having a private element.

Moreover, The Khukhan School has a rich history of exemplary instruction in the English language—something I consider essential gold-weight for these two angel-girls. Image
Here's a delightful short post from a Peace Corps volunteer who taught English at The Khukhan School in 1967:

< In August 1967, after two summers of intensive instruction in Thai, cross-cultural studies and training in Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) at
Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, Illinois, I arrived by train in the northeastern provincial capital of Sisaket as a United States Peace Corps Volunteer. I was greeted by Mongkhon Suwanaphongse, the headmaster of the lower secondary school in the nearby district (amphoe)
of Khukhan. With that greeting, I was off on one of the most wonderful human experiences that a newly minted college graduate—or anyone of any age, for that matter—could hope for. For almost the next two years, I lived and worked in Khukhan and taught English at the Khukhan
School. I'll share some of those times through photographs with the hope that many of those I had come to know, love and respect in Khukhan and elsewhere in Thailand might see them and remember those times.

The mission as defined by the Ministry of Education in Bangkok was no
less than to revolutionize the way English was being taught, to switch the basic texts from the British English oriented Oxford series to the American English oriented South East Asia Regional English Project, the so-called SEAREP texts, and to foster greater student
participation based on an aural-oral approach that stressed listening and speaking skills over rote repetition, memorization and reading. /> Image
Here's an English-narrated short video done by students as an introduction to the school.

So, what does something like that cost for two girls?

It's 7,500 Thai baht each. $215, so $430 total.

...OH, I FORGOT TO MENTION...

That's for the entire academic school year, NOT per month!
I keep tellin' ya, "geoarbitrage."

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