The young student is lucky to be alive and the school has only now issued a warning to pupils! These are always mine fields for those in charge, and this incidence highlights just how incredibly difficult it is to anticipate all possibilities. A 15‑year‑old can’t be expected to carry legal or moral responsibility here. Thai law treats minors as having limited capacity, so the burden shifts to the adults in charge. This is your classic vicarious responsibility: the school has a duty to maintain safe premises and supervise students during school hours. Compounding this further, if a roof is old enough to collapse under a child’s weight, and accessible enough for a student to get onto it in the first place, that’s a failure of maintenance, supervision, or policy and not the boy’s fault. While some may argue that the boy should not have climbed onto the roof in the first place, ultimately the responsibility has to sit squarely with the school.
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