Parents can't tell which school charges are allowed or why uniform subsidy receipts are kept or rejected
A parent of a Mathayom 1 student was told to buy the 500 baht uniform at an outside shop and bring the receipt, then learned the school would keep the money for activities; she estimated 250,000 baht across 500 students and asked where to complain. A parent in Phitsanulok describes a mandatory 300 baht commemorative shirt, with non-buyers reportedly deducted from a pending equipment-fee refund.
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Camera and vision
Notice Reader: photo of the letter, plain Thai out
The parent photographs a paper notice. Claude vision reads handwriting and print, and lists amounts, deadlines and who gets the money.
Build with Claude vision, Thai OCR, PWA
Data and maps
Rule Match: each charge checked against the ministry's public fee rules
The tool reads a school notice and matches each line to the Ministry of Education's public announcements on fees, and marks it allowed, optional or not allowed, citing the rule. The 500 baht uniform and the 300 baht shirt each get a clear verdict.
Build with Claude, public Ministry of Education fee announcements, Next.js
Web portal
Meeting Sheet: a printed tick sheet to take to the parent meeting
The parent enters the charges and the tool prints a one page sheet for the parent meeting: each charge, the question to ask, and a tick for allowed, optional or unclear. The parent can stand up with paper instead of guessing what to say.
Build with Next.js, Claude, PDF generator
Voice and phone
Ask the Office: an agent phones the school office to ask the question you are shy to ask
The parent picks the question ('is the 300 baht shirt mandatory, what happens if I don't buy it?'). The agent phones the school office in polite Thai, asks it, and records the answer with the time. It removes the fear of being the parent who complained.
Build with Twilio Voice, Gemini Live or OpenAI Realtime, Thai TTS, Claude
Automation and APIs
Receipt Vault: photo to a folder, read, filed and checked
Receipts photographed into a shared folder are read by Claude vision and filed by school year. Missing tax ID fields are flagged right away so the uniform subsidy receipt is not rejected later.
Build with Claude vision, Google Drive, n8n or a small script
What people reported
Parent of a Mathayom 1 student at a district school: told to buy the 500 baht uniform outside and bring the receipt, school then said it would keep the money for student activities; estimated 250,000 baht for 500 students; asks where to complain.
pantip.comParent in Phitsanulok describes a mandatory 300 baht commemorative shirt for a fun run, with non-buyers reportedly deducted from a pending equipment-fee refund, and earlier unsold keychains charged to class funds.
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