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  1. They were only on the first (North American second) floor, but they didn't jump out of the window. I certainly would have to escape flames. I presume the smoke must have got them. Thai language papers say that several girls realised the building was on fire and tried to warn their friends, but their friends wouldn't believe them and refused to get out of bed.

     

    Pasathai - locking girls in dorms is standard, even in colleges. When I taught up north decades ago, the womens' dorms on campus were locked at 9pm. Anyone coming in after that had to ring the buzzer and asked to be let in. Still, I'm sure those inside could have opened the doors in an emergency. But at the teachers college, it was different. An American exchange student there told me the girls were locked it and could not get out. It worried her quite a bit.

     

     

     

    thai logic, many locked doors, one person with key at night

  2. we looked at Pensmith School located in Bangkok, for our daughters years ago, all the floors had locking metal bar doors that were locked at night, a real problem if there was a fire. I don't know if its the same now, or if this is common at other schools in Thailand, but It would be a good thing for some brave reporter to look into.

  3. A Thai-America commented on this, saying his son had been picked on by a bully in anuban (nursery school). His son and two other 4 year old finally ganged up on the bully. The friend is a USMC veteran, and he gave his kid hell. He said "team work" is in the Thai mentality, and he's not having that with his son. He says you fight your own fights. (The Marines taught him that.)

     

     

    a squad of one then ?

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