祝 卒業式 バンコク日本人学校/ Congratulation! Graduation ceremony in Thai-Japanese Association School

生徒数約３０００名、日本人学校として世界最大規模のバンコク日本人学校（泰日協会学校）で、小学６年生３００名弱、中学３年生約１５０名が本日めでたく卒業式を迎えた。
バンコクに桜はないが、日本人の間ではタイ桜とも呼ばれるチョンプーパンティップ等の街路樹が綺麗に咲くこの時期に、日本より少しだけ早い卒業式。
卒業式で、立派に育った子供の姿を見て、少し目頭が熱くなるとともに、ここまで育てていただいた先生や学校関係者の皆様に感謝の気持ちで一杯になった。状況の見え難いデモ等の度に、生徒の安全を第一として臨時休校などと行いつつも、必要な行事や学業の進展も考えないといけないという並々ならない先生方の苦労は本当に大変だったと思う。
小学部の卒業生は、そのまま中学部に入学する子も多いが、これを機に日本に戻って日本の中学に進学する子や親の転勤で別の国に転出する子など中学の入学先は結構バラエティ豊か。中学部の卒業生の進学先は、もっとバラエティ豊かに日本各地やタイ、それに世界中に広がっているのだろう。
バンコク日本人学校は日本の年度と同じく４月開始、３月終了だが、４月中旬にタイ正月を迎えその頃が一番暑いタイの気候も考慮して、もともと春休みが長いのだが、今日卒業した小学６年生は４月２０日過ぎの中学入学まで、宿題のない長い長い春休みを謳歌することになる。
我が家の子供も、今日が最後になるかもしれない友達も含め何人かの友達同士で誘い合わせて早速春休みを謳歌にしに出かけていった。まあ今日ぐらいは少し多めに見てあげよう。

Today, a graduation ceremony has been held at a Thai-Japanese Association School, which has more than 3,000 student and it is the largest Japanese school outside Japan, nearly 300 students in a elementary school (6th grader) and around 150 students in a junior high (9th grader) have graduated from the school.
In this season, many tree flowers on the road are blooming colorfully including Chompoo-puntip, which is called Thai Cherry blossom by Japanese in Bangkok instead of Cherry blossom in Japan.
I was slightly moved to tears when I watched my son attending the ceremony with his polite attitude
and I would like to express my heartfelt gratitude to all school teachers and relating persons in the school. I suppose the effort by staff of school has not been unusual to determine their policy for operating school including temporal school close by anti-government demonstration rally and so on.
Many students graduated from elementary school will enter to junior high in the school but some students will enter a school in japan or other country with their parents. Destination of students graduated from junior high would be more diversified from all over the Japan as well as in Thailand and other countries.
The calendar of the Thai-Japanese Association School begins April and ends March, which is same as school in Japan, but a spring vacation (March to April) is much longer than school in Japan reflecting hot season in Thai and Thai new year in middle of April. So graduates from elementary can enjoy their long long spring vacation without homework from today to after 20 April, which will be a entrance ceremony of Junior high school.
My son has already gone to shopping with some his classmates, some of them could be last occasion to play with, just after the ceremony. So today is special day and I should let him to play.

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