Students, protesting military rule, pose in a classroom setting while smeared with red paint to symbolise the blood of protesters slain by the junta. (Supplied)
Students, protesting military rule, pose in a classroom setting while smeared with red paint to symbolise the blood of protesters slain by the junta. (Supplied)

Parents, teachers and students boycott ‘slave education system’

With an entire academic year already lost to the pandemic, the junta says schools will reopen on June 1, but teachers, students and their parents are refusing to attend or enroll in schools administered by generals and policed by soldiers.

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