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PUBLISHED: 5 Mar 2025 at 18: 06
A contentious 50-year-old Education Ministry rule that heavily restricted student hair styling was removed by the Supreme Administrative Court.  ,
The judge’s decision is final, as it was made public on Wednesday. It puts an extremely contentious problem that had caused arguments between teachers, students, and parents.
The court ruled in favor of the repeal of a 1975 rules that the government had immediately implemented because it violated the constitution’s protections for personal freedom and was out of contact with a rapidly changing society.  ,
According to the court, the protection of the law had a negative effect on individuals and was in contravention of the rules of the Child Protection Act 2003.
The ministry-supervised school regulations for male and female students in tolerable hairstyles are the regulation’s guidelines. Kids were required to cut their hair small and had no access to hair or beards. Women were not permitted to grow their hair below their lips or apply any makeup at all.
Its goal was to train them to get great people for the country as a whole, good boys and girls for their parents and teachers.
The rule was based on a 1972 military dictatorship ruling get governing hairstyles considered appropriate for students.
The prosecutor argued that the government rules in dispute and the defense regime’s order may be regarded as being in the best interests of the students.
23 individuals who petitioned the Administrative Court in 2020 to have the 1975 rules reversed are seen by the judge’s last ruling as a success.
Since 2024, the government has allowed for some flexibility in scholar hairstyles and even clothing codes. The government will then leave the decision to regulate wigs up to individual schools, according to the court ruling. Some universities leave it to the parents to determine, while others entrust it to the school board or a meeting of teachers and parents.
Although the judge’s decision officially buried the issue, Bad Student’s comments on their social media accounts were not entirely positive. Advertisements claimed that educators who had long haired pupils were still in use in schools.
On the X consideration of Bad Student, C-disc wrote,” Those old-style instructors may continue to violate the rights of the body of children as long as there is no consequence.”
The Office of the Administrative Court’s Facebook page stated in a comment that” Thai training is extremely focused on clothing rather than on , giving students abilities to use in the future and preparing them for the demands of the global business.”
A loosely organized student activist party called” Bad Student” demands more freedom in schools and schools. It began as a fresh organization calling for the military regime to be overthrown and a subsequent government under General Prayut Chan-o-cha, who presided over the 2014 military coup and eventually became prime minister.