EducationalHazards

[GWR]

25 March 2007 Government to tackle sex, drugs, and depravities in student dorms
The Deputy Minister of Social Development and Human Security says that his ministry will use its remaining 7 month work duration to eradicate vice in student dormitories.

Deputy Minister of Social Development and Human Security, MD Poldech Pinprateep (พลเดช ปิ่นประทีป), said that a large number of students lived in dormitories near their universities. MD Poldech indicated that these establishments posed high risks for narcotics, premarital sex, gambling, and other vices.

The Deputy Minister said that the government and the Ministry of Social Development and Human Security will therefore be tackling student dormitory vice in the last 7 months of its working timeframe. Dormitory owners, entertainment venues, local administrative organizations, and students will be asked to cooperate with government officials in upholding moral virtues.

MD Poldech added that the local community around university campuses would also be cleansed of all vice
Reporter : RTI-Reporter06

http://thainews.prd.go.th/newsenglish/previewnews.php?news_id=255003250001

[ncr]

Sounds quite Orwellian to me.

Nice headline though.... :rolleyes:

[ncr]

By forum member stevesuphan:

Teachers looking for a free lunch ruin quality of education for kids (http://nationmultimedia.com/2007/03/31/opinion/opinion_30030726.php) - The Nation, 31 March 2007

[GWR]

Burned teenager in coma
Police told how students ordered boy to roll on fire
Published on September 20, 2007

The foster parents of a teenager who suffered bad burns to his body after rolling over a bonfire in a private vocational college hazing have filed a complaint with police.

Suthin Tosing said her son Niphon, 16, was still in a coma from the weekend incident.

His torso was badly burned and he had suffered a head injury after head-butting the sand beach on the orders of around 40 senior students of the unnamed Bangkok college.

Hazing is a ritualised ceremony, often conducted by college students in North America.

Suthin said the college refused to take responsibility because the senior students organised the hazing on their own, but it gave her all their names. She included them in her complaint filed yesterday with Crime Suppression Division police officers.

The mother filed her complaint with the CSD after Nonthaburi police, whose jurisdiction covers the college, refused to receive it, explaining Thab Sakae police in Prachuap Khiri Khan had primary jurisdiction over the case.

Suthin said she was told about what happened by the owners of a resort in the province where the hazing took place.

She said there were around 70 male students attending the hazing - not eight or nine as told to her by some seniors who took Niphon to a local hospital after his condition turned serious.

In the same hazing, two other students suffered severe burns to their bodies and faces after rolling over a bonfire when ordered by their seniors. The two boys said they went to the resort with the group just to have fun and were not prepared to disobey the orders of their seniors. All three students were later transferred to Chol Prathan Hospital in Nonthaburi when the group returned to Bangkok.

The Education Ministry has ordered an investigation.

The Nation
http://www.nationmultimedia.com/2007/09/20/national/national_30049592.php

[Wisarut]

For the case of Hazing, thsoe instructors in vocational schools stated clearly that:

Senior men and alumni (or ven dropout senior) have FULL right over the life of thsoe freshmen ...

Parents had NO right to intervern even though the senior have push thsoe Frenshmen ot jump form the top of coconut tree ... with heads hitting on the ground ... or even force those frehsmen to roll on the bonfire with red hot charcoal .... or the case of clubbing thsoe weak freshmen with steel crowbars, balcksmith hammer, baseball bat with nails on the bat ... :eek:

[GWR]

One of these students was being interviewed on TITV this evening. He pulled up his shirt to show some pretty nasty-looking burns.
Note in the following account that one policeman claimed that this second victim was no longer a student at the school. Sounds like he was trying to do the school's owners a favor!:

STUDENT HAZING
Second victim goes to police
College told to treat complaints properly; brain surgery for first
Published on September 21, 2007

The family of the second youth who suffered burns to his body in a hazing ceremony filed a complaint with police yesterday against senior students from Thai Wijitsilp college.

Tawan Sujichai, 17, went with his mother Wannakorn Sakha-mula to see police at the Crime Suppression Division.

He said the hazing was for a group of students who caught bus number 90 to and from the private vocational college.

Tawan said senior students asked the freshmen to meet at Bang Sue train station last Friday and board a bus to a weekend ceremony at a resort in Prachuap Khiri Khan's Thap Sakae district.

He said he went because he wanted to join the group, he met with three other freshmen, seven second-year students, plus third-year students and graduates.

Tawan said four freshmen including himself were told to roll over a spot where a fire that was nearly out had been covered with sand.


"At the time I felt burning sores all over my body. The burns on my chest were because the seniors pressed a burned fork or spoon onto my skin. All of us freshmen had this mark.

"After that we were told to take a shower and go to sleep, at about 11pm. At the time I saw Niphon Tosing [the 16-year-old student who suffered a head injury and is now in coma] and he looked normal," he said.

He said Niphon was sick the next day and had such a severe headache he couldn't eat, so he was sent to hospital. After, the rest of the students were sent home and explained that the hazing ceremony was a tradition they passed on. But the seniors did not tell them what happened to Niphon. Tawan said his mother later saw the burns on his body, so he told her about the hazing. On hearing the news, they decided to file a compliant with the police.

Wannakorn said she was told by college officials there was no policy to respond to this hazing. Unhappy with the college's reply and its alleged decision to allow students "to take a break until this blew over", she opted to go to the police.

Wannakorn said she felt the school had shown no responsibility, so she decided Tawan should study elsewhere.

Case investigator, Pol Sub Lt Narongchai Ekkachan, yesterday looked up Niphon's academic records and found that Niphon was no longer a student at the college, as he had failed to submit a student application for the 2007 first semester. But the victim's foster mother Suthin Tosing said Niphon's "dropping out" of classes may be a misunderstanding, the officer said.

Police would summon 10 senior students to testify on the matter and hear the charges filed against them, he said.

Narongchai said the college told police the accused senior students had been suspended from first semester exams and a fact-finding committee set to look into the matter. Students found guilty would be dismissed.

Police could not take action against the school for this case because Niphon was not listed as a student and the school had previously prohibited any hazing ceremonies, he said.

Meanwhile, Niphon - still in a coma at Chol Prathan Hospital in Nonthaburi - underwent brain surgery yesterday. He was said to be in a critical condition and at risk of ending up permanently disabled.

The youth's family insisted that the college still had not contacted them about the matter. They have vowed to press criminal charges against the students involved. Suthin said her foster son had just dropped classes and was still a student at the college.

Meanwhile, Education Minister Wijit Srisa-an said the Office of the Private Education Commission has been assigned to assist the injured students.

He urged the college to assist the injured and stop such problems reoccurring. Wijit said the school must order appropriate punishment.

"They can't just fire them without a probe. The school can't just brush off their responsibility because the wrongdoers were their students," he said.

The school should find a solution for both parties, with help from the local area office, so they don't lose educational opportunities, he said.

The hazing case follows another incident - a recent video clip of a Mathayom 2 student being attacked by senior students. Wijit expressed fears that if school violence was left unsolved it could lead to an escalation of problems and school shootings occurring.

The Nation

http://www.nationmultimedia.com/2007/09/21/national/national_30049715.php

[mdechgan]

Bangkok has had a long history of vocational school violence. Especially with the infamous uthain, pathumwan rivalry. These kids love their school and violence more than their own parents.

Kids nowadays have way too much time. What ever happened to reading a book, watching tv, playing guitar?

The schools and parents should be liable and responsible. If not legaly then socially and morally.

[Wisarut]

Bangkok has had a long history of vocational school violence. Especially with the infamous uthain, pathumwan rivalry. These kids love their school and violence more than their own parents.

Kids nowadays have way too much time. What ever happened to reading a book, watching tv, playing guitar?

The schools and parents should be liable and responsible. If not legaly then socially and morally.

Well, they are lacking role models as well as the one who are willign listen to them ... The need person who have such kind of quality which Neither Parents nor teachers could provide such things ... they they turn into sex and violence ... even beocme a quick route from juvenile deliquences into full blow felons or even rapists, murderer, thugs and dacoits ready to rape and pillage the whole villages and cities as they please ... even though they are just at their teens ...
:eek: