Female adolescent sexuality is highly policed at upland Thai schools, particularly for students who teachers identify as ‘beautiful’. While Northern Thai cultural ideals of masculinity glorify the ‘wandering’ of male youth, girls are told that it is especially important that they postpone sexual activity until after completion of their schooling. For Karen students, this ideal may clash with personal and family decision making in a cultural context where early marriage has historically been relatively common. Using a case study of expulsion following suspected student sexual activity, this article argues that rather than teachers approaching certain students as at risk of early departure from schooling, their personhood comes to be seen as a risk to the disruption of other students’ progress and to the moral community of the school.

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美丽是克伦女孩的风险：泰国高地学校的开除和早婚

在泰国高地学校，女性青少年的性行为受到高度管制，特别是对于老师认为“漂亮”的学生。虽然泰国北部男子气概的文化理想美化了男性青年的“流浪”，但女孩们被告知，将性活动推迟到完成学业后尤为重要。对于卡伦学生来说，在历史上早婚相对普遍的文化背景下，这种理想可能会与个人和家庭决策发生冲突。本文通过对疑似学生发生性行为后被开除的案例研究，认为教师并非以有提前退学风险的方式对待某些学生，而是将他们的人格视为干扰其他学生进步的风险，并学校的道德社区。