After years of confusion with the authorities, students in Thailand can now disappoint their hair. to the letter.
On Wednesday, Thailand’s Supreme Administrative Court issued a 50 -year -old instruction by the Ministry of Education, which previously proposed a rules for hairstyles for school students.
In fact, the hairstyle rules have become more comfortable in many schools. However, some still used Junta-ASSUED Directive as a guideline in 1975, and will hold the hair of unacceptable students.
The 1975 guidelines violated the freedom of individuals protected by the Constitution and did not come into contact with society today, the court said.
This week’s decision of the court insisted that the 1975 guidelines were unconstitutional in response to the petition filed by 23 public school students in 2020.
Student activists have long campaigned to be comfortable for hairstyle rules, and infringe on human dignity and personal freedom of the body.
One of them is Panthin Adulthananusak, who recently graduated from college.
“At that time, in the eyes of children like us, it seemed impossible, but we wanted to do something.” “It would be embarrassing for a lifetime if a student in Thai history did not happen to challenge the power of adults that restrained us.”
In response to these campaigns, the Ministry of Education in 2020 allowed students to have longer hairstyles, but some limitations remained. The boy’s hair could not cover the neck of the neck, and the girls with long hair had to tie it.
The regulations were canceled in 2023, and at that time, the Minister of Education, Trinuch Thianthong, said that students, parents and school authorities should negotiate their commonalities for the school’s hairstyle.
But through all these changes, some schools continued to follow the standards specified in the original guidelines in 1975.
The school has traditionally associated with disciplinary action with relation to short hair. This week is a repetitive claim by many social media users. But in recent years, a report on a school that banned storms and stained hair has caused the crying of the public throughout Thailand.
In some areas of this country, teachers are known to cut off their hair during the morning meeting to drive out hairstyle rules. Even though the education authorities warned teachers, such practices continued.
In January, the Ministry of Education repeatedly abolished all students’ limitations on the length of the hair and recognized the importance of promoting diversity and fairness in every aspect of education.
Wednesday, the court decision reaffirming the formal promotion of leaving the hair to the students, saying that the school’s hairstyle rules should consider students’ freedom and dignity.
But Panthin said that the cancellation of the guidance of decades ago is still a hole in which the school can set up his rules. He suggested that if the school is more conservative, the limit can be maintained.
Nevertheless, Panthin said, “I was pleased that I was recognized and fought and there was a practical progress.”
“I hope that this court’s ruling will set a new standard for understanding the basic human rights of the school.”
