Thai Schools Will Face Shutdown Over Student Brawls

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The problem with the 'lock 'em up' school of thought here is that it's not as though anything was done to prevent this or to help the kids who have resorted to gangs. There's no money for it. Most kids at schools like this are lower middle class at best. If they have family issues, if they are in trouble, if they are being bullied or abused- there's really no one to help them and no money to motivate anything to happen. It's easy to blame the parents, but it's likely that they have very little money or free time, and living in the city they don't have as many extended family members to help with supervision of children.

It's easy to blame the schools, but shutting them down will not control the gangs. It's just an extortion attempt to try to get the apparently already very overworked teachers to take care of a problem that the parents have no money for, and that the government will spend no money on. Properly speaking, this problem- once it has moved out of the schools proper- is the domain of the police and social workers. In Thailand, it is to laugh.