SUVARNABHUMI AIRPORT - Students quit schools over noise
Minister meets with local residents suffering from the thunder of take-offs and landings
A primary-school student was driven to quit school after his parents had had enough of the ear-deafening noise caused by 14 flights an hour arriving at and departing from Suvarnabhumi Airport, affecting the boy's health and concentration.
The father of Natthanon Veeraphitkasem, a Prathom-2 student at Sathit Bang Na School in Samut Prakan's Bang Phli district, submitted a resignation letter to the school headmistress last month, saying, "The noise of the aircraft is unbearably loud."
"We predict more students will leave the school by the end of the year, as some parents are now considering the move," said Nadrudee Chitrangsan, an assistant to the school headmistress.
Sathit Bang Na is located near Suvarnabhumi Airport, and the 1,086 students, including kindergarten and primary- and secondary-school students, are being driven to distraction, because none of the 54 classrooms are soundproof.
"The school environment has been designed as a 'resort school' in which the classrooms are in a natural environment, so none of them has air-conditioners, either," she said.
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