DELINQUENCY
Govt vetoes idea to send violent kids to the South
The cabinet has shot down an Education Ministry suggestion to discipline violent students by sending them to the troubled South to do community work.
Deputy government spokesman Marut Massayavanich told a post-cabinet news conference yesterday the government had no such plan.
He said the idea of sending violent students to the southern provinces to do community work was not included in the ministry's proposals to deal with teenage violence that were presented to the cabinet.
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- Writer: Lamphai Intathep
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