REUTERS/Jorge SilvaWearing white ribbons, publicly hacking off their hair and making “Hunger Games” salutes - Thailand’s high school students are doing their best to shake up the country’s rigid education system. As university students stage weeks of high-profile campus protests for democracy, their younger brethren are advancing their own rebellion to Thailand’s establishment. “There’s a viral saying that ‘our first dictatorship is school’,” 17-year old Peka Loetparisanyu told Reuters at her apartment. “This means that a lot of our rights have been violated.”The movement sweeping through Thai high schools has been dubbed “Bad Student” by its leaders. Traditionalism runs through Thailand’s education system.

Source: Standard Digital September 25, 2020 05:51 UTC