{"id":75748,"date":"2020-09-26T00:05:24","date_gmt":"2020-09-25T21:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/our-first-dictatorship-is-school-thai-students-revolt\/"},"modified":"2020-09-26T00:05:24","modified_gmt":"2020-09-25T21:05:24","slug":"our-first-dictatorship-is-school-thai-students-revolt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/our-first-dictatorship-is-school-thai-students-revolt\/","title":{"rendered":"#\u2018Our first dictatorship is school\u2019: Thai students revolt"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#\u2018Our first dictatorship is school\u2019: Thai students revolt<\/strong>”
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\n BANGKOK \u2013 Wearing white ribbons, publicly hacking off their hair and making \u201cHunger Game<\/a>s\u201d salutes \u2013 Thailand\u2019s high school students are doing their best to shake up the country\u2019s rigid education system.<\/p>\n

As university students stage weeks of high-profile campus protests for democracy, their younger brethren are advancing their own rebellion to Thailand\u2019s establishment.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a viral saying that \u2018our first dictatorship is school\u2019,\u201d 17-year old Peka Loetparisanyu told Reuters at her apartment.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey are trying instill in us that we are only the little people in an authoritarian society,\u201d Loetparisanyu said. \u201cThis means that a lot of our rights have been violated.\u201d<\/p>\n

The movement sweeping through Thai high schools has been dubbed \u201cBad Student\u201d by its leaders. Its namesake is a book written by university student activist Netiwit Chotiphatphaisal about his experiences in high school titled \u201cA Bad Student in an Excellent Education System.\u201d<\/p>\n

As well as supporting the broader aims of the anti-government protests, the high school movement is targeted at gaining self-expression for students via the abolition of rules they deem as archiac.<\/p>\n

Traditionalism runs through Thailand\u2019s education system. The royal anthem is played at morning assemblies, uniform and deportment rules are strict and students are expected to be unquestioning of authority.<\/p>\n

Critics say the school system is aimed at compliance more than education. Global scores compiled by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) for 2018 show Thailand far behind top performer Singapore and also lagging neighbouring Malaysia in reading, maths and science<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Still, conservatives were furious last month when some students wore white ribbons and raised three-finger \u201cHunger Games\u201d salutes during the morning anthem recital to support the pro-democracy movement. The salute has been a symbol of calls for democracy since Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha first took power in a 2014 coup. The white ribbons represent the purity of the students.<\/p>\n

Education Minister Nataphol Teepsuwan earlier this year bowed to demands by students to relax the rules that prescribe specific hair length and styles for male and female students.<\/p>\n

But Nataphol said more discussion was needed on calls to abolish uniforms and other major changes.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think the students are my opponents,\u201d he told Reuters. \u201cI feel that by listening to them, I\u2019m giving them an opportunity to voice their concern safely.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fifteen-year-old Benjamaporn Nivas became one of the first faces of the \u2018Bad Student\u2019 movement when she sat in public places with a sign around her neck inviting passersby to cut her hair as symbolic \u2018punishment\u2019 for infringing the haircut rule.<\/p>\n

She\u2019s now set her sights on further reform.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey should revoke all the outdated rules, not just that one,\u201d she told Reuters. \u201cThose rules shouldn\u2019t exist in the first place. They violate our human rights.\u201d\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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