Thai OVEC scrambles to solve problem of youth fights

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OVEC scrambles to solve problem of youth fights



BANGKOK, 4 July 2016 (NNT) – The Vocation Education Commission (OVEC) will be implementing administrative measures to solve the problem of youths' infighting, in response to the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO)'s directive of using Section 44 to pursue immediate action against misbehaving students.

OVEC secretary-general Chaiyapruek Serirak has disclosed that all public and private vocational schools have been working to find solutions to the problem of student brawls, in response to the NCPO's directive of using Section 44 to take immediate action against misbehaving students.

OVEC is considering a new solution that involves the school administrative system, he said.

According to the plan, if a school is found to have threatening and potentially violent students, the institute would not be allowed to receive new students in its upcoming term, says the OVEC secretary-general.


-- NNT 2016-07-04

[BigBadGeordie]

The solution is simple, set up a committee (plus several sub-committees) to report back in, say, 6 months. This appears to be the answer to all the other problems Thailand is facing.

[cornishcarlos]

How about the police just do the job they signed up for ?

Nah, that wouldn't be fair on them I guess....

What a joke

[EricBerg]

Especially for the youth it is important that they get rewarded when they do well and punished if they misbehave. School administrations have shown they cannot solve the problem. If authorities now threaten schools with punishment if their students misbehave can be compared to punishing any company if an employee commits a crime. Does Tesco Lotus get a fine when an employee is caught drunk-driving in his free time?

[gandalf12]

They are always scrambling. Are they just waking up from a Rip Van Winkle sleep? Must be something in the water if they cant see what is happening without having to "scramble".

Now if they have potentially violent students they cant take any more students in. How does this solve the problem? It makes the innocent suffer as a result for a lack of action by others. Also why do schools have to be told to act? Are the people running them blind and deaf or is it the concept that nothing gets done unless someone in a higher position tells them to do something. With that attitude there is a long, long way to go before Thailand can enter the real world.

[tuanku]

Vocational education is the primary destination of poorly educated and immature, late developing boys, i.e. most of the male offspring of the Thai working classes. In some secondary schools the academic stream is up to 90% girls while the vocational stream is similarly weighted with boys. It is not surprising, then that thugs end up in vocational schools. It is perhaps surprising that the vocational school system has not yet learned to deal with the tribalism from which these inter-school battles arise, or perhaps they actually rather approve of it as a small scale version of the Nationalism which the country as a whole subscribes to.