Tenker at unge thaier ikke akkurat er fornøyde med det nye regelverket. Hvem skal vurdere hva som er "upassende". For mange eldre folk er noe så enkelt som å holde hender offentlig "upassende".
Dette er virkelig noen steg i feil retning. Ungdom skal kontrolleres og deres moral stilles spørsmål ved. Uttalelser som at regelverket måtte endres for å tilpasses et mere moderne samfunn og smutthull skulle tettes; hva kan man egentlig si til slikt?
New rules ban students from ‘indecency’ and ‘inappropriate’ displays of affection
The Cabinet has approved the Education Ministry’s new regulations banning students from holding public gatherings, “inappropriate” displays of affection and causing public nuisance.
The new regulations, which will be implemented after being published in the Royal Gazette, is a revamp of the 2005 regulation on students’ conduct that warned students against public displays of affection and causing a public nuisance at night.
The new regulation now also forbids public assembly likely to disturb order or go against morality, inappropriate acts of affection and obscenity in private and public places, and causing a nuisance.
Education Ministry spokesperson Chalam Attatham said the 2005 regulation had to be revised in line with modern society and to close some loopholes.
It aims to better protect students and promote acts that are appropriate and socially responsible. He said that though student behaviour seems to be improving, with fewer cases of them engaging in brawls, “[the new regulations] will give schools and authorities a tool to oversee their students”.
Meanwhile, Montri Sintawichai, director of the Child Protection Foundation, said: “What students need is not punishment, they need help.
“If a student is at risk of or is engaged in acts of sexual intimacy, apart from alerting the school or parents, we will also need good measures to help [them] continue their education and prevent such acts in the future,” he said.
