Thai Colleges Get A Dressing Down Over Short Skirts

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Colleges get a dressing down over short skirts

By The Nation

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The Office of the Private Education Commission (Opec) has warned private vocational schools they will be shut down for a week if they have students who are inappropriately dressed.

Opec director Charnwit Thapsuwan said yesterday it had received public complaints about students in Bangkok wearing inappropriate uniforms - especially skirts that were "too short".

Opec had notified private vocational colleges to get tough on such students. If there continued to be complaints about any college's students, the institution would be asked to explain and could end up being punished by having all classes suspended for one week, as per regulations, Charnwit said.

Students who overly expose their flesh could become the victims of crime, he said, and urged parents to watch what their children were wearing.

-- The Nation 2010-07-13

[Democrat]

"Quote" "Students who overly expose their flesh could become the victims of crime, he said, and urged parents to watch what their children were wearing."<BR>Is this charnwit's words or  a bit of Thai journalism. Seems someone is trying to encourage people to commit crimes.  The girls skirts in the picture are a lot longer than what is seen on television and the newspapers everyday including Bangkok streets. Funny enough in the north they are a lot longer than in Bangkok, usually below the knees.

[Payboy]

Is it already that time of the year again?

[thaicbr]

You would have thought it would be easier just to make Thailand the HUB of University short skirts:D

[Samuian]

Not again, how often are they going to recycle this "problem"...

[RedNIvar]

I still don't see the problem here.

[x5david]

Agree what is the problem....and what kind of solution is suspending ALL classes for a week over this??? Yes let's punish the entire student body over a few legs....pun intended.

[pedro01]

Subscribed & waiting for the photo's...

[swifty5x5]

Up with skirts down with pants.

[nullx8]

its almost like "new Year or Songkran" ... every year again

[Xangsamhua]

Isn't it just a form of resistance to compulsory uniforms? If the girls were able to select their own clothes each day there'd be no problem would there? I'm not aware of university students' short skirts constituting a social problem in other countries I'm familiar with.

[dom samui]

Nothing about thick bra???

[asiawatcher]

Mindless journalism and a lot to do about nothing - next we will have Burka's and black skirts to the ground - get a life! The world has moved on even if Opec is still in the dark ages.

[glegolo]

Beutiful girls, and beutiful legs. It´s a pity that

some people are so dam_n stupid.

To me, this look great.

Glegolo

[chmiroau]

Personally I dont believe that short skirts are the problem here. If they were then maybe we should encourage the girls, women to wear burkhas, like the Muslims.

[ellengogo]

<P>Government should have done this long time ago.</P>

[engrin]

I need a holiday! Shut us down!

[toybits]

Waiting for doctored photos.... hmmm.

[Lost in LOS]

can we get some more examples so I can see what the problem is

[Tokay]

How about the focus on education for a while and actually teach them something for a change. Don't worry about their clothes.

[GeorgeO]

Is it just pure coincidence that this story breaks at exactly the same time as the one on unwanted teenage pregnancies? Of course, let's blame it all on short skirts, then we can deny that the lack of sex education has anything to do with it...

[Thai at Heart]

Does the civil service have these "crackdowns" in their outlook calendars for yearly repeat or something?

Releasing these stupid stories year after year serves nothing but to show how utterly ineffectual Thai authorities/ministries are at enforcing rules, regs and laws. They can't even get schoolgirls to wear the correct uniform, what hope a rampaging mob?

Why is this the government's business anyway? The colleges have rules about dress codes, enforce them.

Doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting a different result does come to mind.

[Asianrider]

I still don't see the problem here.

Don't fix a problem that doesn't need fixing -

[engrin]

How about the focus on education for a while and actually teach them something for a change. Don't worry about their clothes.

That would be AGAINST school policy.

Learning gives the students headaches.

[mogoso]

Its hot in Thailand, whats wrong with wearing temperature appropriate clothing. Maybe a Burka would appease the skin police.

Besides I like looking at short skirts

[Greenside]

How did they manage to find a picture that doesn't actually illustrate the issue?

I understand that expats are to be polled on suitable alternatives to those dreary but apparently provocative uniforms. Here's my entry:

[4u2mad]

All the other problems with the Thai education system, this is all you can obsess about Mr Nitwit, sorry Charnwit

[venturalaw]

<P>Government should have done this long time ago.</P>

It's been done every year what seems like forever. The attention to this issue is unnecessary and misplaced. Try working on the educational system. Then again, that's been suggested over and over too.

[freedom4life]

No complaints here

[screamingeagle]

Sounds more like crack up tham a crack down!!!