After years of conflict with the authorities, Thai students are finally allowed to wear their hair whatever they choose.
The education ministry’s 50-year-old law that listed hairstyle guidelines for schoolchildren was overturned by Thailand’s Supreme Administrative Court. Girls would have ear-length bobs, and boys would have short hair.
Although many schools no longer use the guidelines, some continued to use the 1975 junta-issues edict as a guideline and would clip the hair of children who disobeyed them.
According to the court, the 1975 regulation was out of step with modern culture and infringed upon individual freedoms.
The court’s ruling this week addressed a petition that 23 public school students submitted in 2020.
