Student hairstyles are top trending on Twitter today (Thursday), with a “scrap hairstyles” hashtag going viral after the “Bad Student” anti-establishment group posted a picture and strict rules related to student hairstyles at a school in the southern province of Phatthalung.

 

The rules state that the hair of male students must be cut evenly short, with hair on the front not exceeding three cm in length. Female students must have their hair cut evenly up to the earlobes, for junior high school students, and 4cm below the earlobes for senior high school students.

 

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The hashtag, which was featured in more than 150,000 tweets on Thursday, comes as schools in Thailand are preparing resume on-site classes next week.

 

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This is a very interesting story that has me thinking deeply about the implications.

Yes, of course.

Anti-Establishment, indeed. 

 

 

Quite the fashion. 

A post with a photo of a young girl has been reported and removed as inappropriate. 

“The new hairstyle rules of the Ministry of Education state that, in principle, students can wear their hair short or long, but it must be neat and appropriate”

Hmm, both of which are fairly subjective terms…

Edited May 12, 20224 yr by Bluespunk
Changed views to terms

12 hours ago, zzaa09 said:

Yes, of course.

Anti-Establishment, indeed. 

 

 

Quite the fashion. 

Just waiting for the first public "scalping" of a free thinking student.

Haircuts I see coming out of the schools in London seem to be right out of the book 'How to have your hair cut stupidly'

10 hours ago, Bluespunk said:

“The new hairstyle rules of the Ministry of Education state that, in principle, students can wear their hair short or long, but it must be neat and appropriate”

Hmm, both of which are fairly subjective terms…

Would you prefer specific measurements? 

10 hours ago, Bluespunk said:

“The new hairstyle rules of the Ministry of Education state that, in principle, students can wear their hair short or long, but it must be neat and appropriate”

Hmm, both of which are fairly subjective terms…

Thailand seems to excel when it comes to 'rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty'.

Uniforms - check

Hairstyle - check

Prostration - check

Corporal punishment - check

Crappy food - check

Ratty textbooks - check

Marginally qualified teachers in debt to their eyeballs, twice over - check

Filipino "English" teachers - check

30+ classroom size - check

MoE Bloated Budget - check

 

 

Learning - Meh

 

 

1 hour ago, RichardColeman said:

Haircuts I see coming out of the schools in London seem to be right out of the book 'How to have your hair cut stupidly'

Yet in Thailand the utterly most absurd haircut is those of the forces and the RTP.

2 hours ago, bbko said:

Would you prefer specific measurements? 

No, I’d prefer the students (and to a certain extent with younger children their families) being able to decide on the length of their own hair. 

3 hours ago, mtls2005 said:

Uniforms - check

Hairstyle - check

Prostration - check

Corporal punishment - check

Crappy food - check

Ratty textbooks - check

Marginally qualified teachers in debt to their eyeballs, twice over - check

Filipino "English" teachers - check

30+ classroom size - check

MoE Bloated Budget - check

 

 

Learning - Meh

 

 

You missed Violent, money lending to students, and Abusive teachers, and no critical thinking.

They run these schools just like the military. IMO. No Questions, hair cuts and military style uniforms, stand to attention at the flag . So sad. I am for basic uniforms but ............

Just now, brianthainess said:

They run these schools just like the military. IMO. No Questions, hair cuts and military style uniforms, stand to attention at the flag . So sad. I am for basic uniforms but ............

I quite like some of the uniforms .........

 

Just another method of creating a conformist, subservient, acquiescant population that never questions authority and 'knows their place' in society. 

3 hours ago, JonnyF said:

Just another method of creating a conformist, subservient, acquiescant population that never questions authority and 'knows their place' in society. 

That is why farang men love Thai ladies so much !!!

On 5/12/2022 at 6:09 PM, Thailand said:

This is a very interesting story that has me thinking deeply about the implications.

I witnessed the hysteria about long hair in America in the 1960's. The cops harassed people just for their hair.

People have too much time on their hands so after worshipping their phone for 8-12hrs they find something else to whine about.

Pathetic.

Methinks the Thai youth of today will be the ones to wake the country up and kick its masters to the curb. They are not as apathetic as generations gone by. It starts with hair 5cm below the earlobes. Mark my words! ????

On 5/13/2022 at 11:50 AM, BritManToo said:

I quite like some of the uniforms .........

 

Was the kid thinking about cheating???!!!!

On 5/13/2022 at 7:23 AM, hotchilli said:

Just waiting for the first public "scalping" of a free thinking student.

Free-thinking?  Or just obeying a different group?

On 5/14/2022 at 12:06 PM, Callmeishmael said:

Was the kid thinking about cheating???!!!!

He looks to be awake, so presumably, yes.

On 5/13/2022 at 11:58 AM, JonnyF said:

Just another method of creating a conformist, subservient, acquiescant population that never questions authority and 'knows their place' in society. 

I'm not so sure.  Outside of appearance and culture, Thai schools are actually pretty lax, behaviour-wise, with few consequences seen for rule breaking.  Much like the police and courts.  I think that the strict uniform, religion and respect aspects of the curriculum might be the only things keeping the students from anarchy.

 

Be careful what you wish for, because you certainly won't be getting the critical and independent thinking to replace what there is now anytime soon.

On 5/13/2022 at 11:58 AM, JonnyF said:

Just another method of creating a conformist, subservient, acquiescant population that never questions authority and 'knows their place' in society. 

If only  we had it in the  west too

1 hour ago, The Hammer2021 said:

If only  we had it in the  west too

Funnily enough, in the US and the UK, class systems are pretty ingrained.  Neither country has much social mobility.  At least in Thailand rich and poor alike can be corrupt.  In the West, only the wealthy elite can afford to be corrupt.

Hair.

 

Now there's a memory. 

Back in the 70's if anyone turned up at school with hair like that he got a running slap on the back of the neck along with the shout: 'baldneck'.  As for me, I took a few and gave a few!

8 hours ago, BangkokReady said:

Free-thinking?  Or just obeying a different group?

It's a tough choice I agree...

But the kids of this nation need to see a real progressive free speaking democratic party that they can vote for in the future.

But for a new party to get into power and get an honest educated minister into each position, cut out the graft and corruption is a big ask.

I feel corruption in all it's forms is so endemic that it's doomed for decades more to come.

On 5/13/2022 at 9:23 AM, mtls2005 said:

Uniforms - check

Hairstyle - check

Prostration - check

Corporal punishment - check

Crappy food - check

Ratty textbooks - check

Marginally qualified teachers in debt to their eyeballs, twice over - check

Filipino "English" teachers - check

30+ classroom size - check

MoE Bloated Budget - check

 

 

Learning - Meh

 

 

Spot on.

Typical Thai military style:

what is outside of childrens head is more important than what should be inside .... in the brain ! (measurement in cm not possible 555)