Students in Thailand have won the right to sport long hair in class after the country’s Supreme Administrative Court (SAC) ruled in their favor last week.

Acting on a 2020 petition by 23 students to repeal a 1975 junta directive to the education ministry to ban long hair on students and cut it if they didn’t follow the order, the SAC ruled that it was unconstitutional for violating individual freedom.

Schools have traditionally associated short hair with discipline and tidiness and this became the basis for requiring