All right, they've just thrown another spanner in the works, and created another brouhaha that has more people grinding their teeth and bombarding the social media than when the single person law was proposed a week or so ago.
It's been one absurdity after another, but isn't it convenient when the 2 trillion baht infrastructure budget was being pushed through Cabinet, and the speed train contract was being cinched.
Get the people heated up about some minor debate, and by the time that dies down, the things-that-matter will have become a done deal.
It all started when news came out that the Office of the Basic Education Commission had deemed that removing Thai classical dance would help Thai pupils increase their maths and science skills, which had previously been on a downward spiral.
Naturally, within a matter of two days, the Ministry of Education had come out to deny that there was ever such a proposal to abolish Thai classical dance from the school curriculum.
Isn't it ironic that there is a Thai saying that goes, "Bad dancers blame the pipes and drums".
The fine officials at OBEC cannot find a way to get children to improve their maths and science skills, and are blaming dance classes for getting in the way.
Whatever happened to those tablets that were supposed to work wonders, then? Don't let me get started about the school system. Since my school days, there have been dozens of revisions to the system, all of which were supposed to improve children's learning abilities and modernise the content to suit the changing world.
Somehow, they have only served to make the kids lag behind, rather than keep abreast of the global changes.
On the other hand, isn't that convenient for leaders who would prefer a lot of "bodies" to support them rather than "brains"? The less they question in class, the less they are inclined to question outside class. It's a conspiracy, and Thai classical dance is the scapegoat.
To be absolutely shameless, I didn't do too badly in school.
Maths was not one of my favourite subjects, but I managed, and I even quite liked geometry. The fact that the sum of the three angles of a triangle is always 180 degrees is rather comforting, and makes life a lot easier than studying irregular verbs where there are always exceptions to the rules.
And yet I have always preferred the irregular things in life. I attribute that to my right-brain dominance, which throws logic out the window.
My favourite television show _ back when television was still black and white, with only two stations which began daily broadcasting in the late afternoon _ was the Thai classical dance programme Nak Sadang Roon Yao (Young Performers). I would wait in front of the TV watching the image of the goddess Mekhala carrying her sparkling glass orb that sent out ripples of light while the Thai song Ton Worachet played until broadcast time.
My parents eventually got a private dance tutor to train my sister and me at home, and my dance training continued, on and off, throughout my school and university years.
At school we would have to wear the regulation red chong kraben cloth wrapped into loose pantaloons, tied up with a silver belt. The school also offered special dance and music lessons on Saturdays, which most of my group of friends attended since it also gave a chance to chit-chat during the weekend as well.
I must have learned the basic dance primer Mae Bot dozens of times. All dance students have to start with this since it compiles all the basic poses into one dance sequence. But since each new class had dance newcomers, it was necessary to start from the beginning. But I didn't mind.
I took Thai classical dance as a free elective at university, and joined the Thai classical dance club, as well. We rehearsed a lot, and performed at various university events as well as on television.
I don't think dancing had any negative impact on my studies. In fact, it has helped me become a more well-rounded person, with an appreciation for the beautiful and creative things in life, and a deep respect for colleagues and teachers, which is an integral part of the dance tradition.
I have yet to see young kids feel the same way about their science teachers.
So I do hope it is just a rumour or nasty misunderstanding about removing classical dance from the school curriculum.
I still maintain my conspiracy theory, though. Do you know why?
It's because it gives credit to the people-in-power for having the shrewdness and machinations to plot and plan.
But if it isn't a conspiracy, then I'm afraid we have been brainless enough to have elected a brainless lot to lead the country.
And that's a really scary thought.
Usnisa Sukhsvasti is the Features Editor of the Bangkok Post.