
Somporn Thapanachai is Deputy Business Editor, Bangkok Post. She certainly does not agree with supporting a school student to join the competition to become a singer. The firm True started recruiting its candidates for the latest 7th season of AF with the new age requirement set at 15 years, instead of the usual 18 for its earlier six seasons. True's executives reasoned that the new age was in line with international trends and also to lengthen the working period in the showbiz industry. True kept its online audition open till May 31. Then the recruitment team travelled to all regions of Thailand in June. Finally, 100 contestants entered the AF house on June 27 to be trained for the first concert on stage on July 3 - the day the majority of them knew their dream quest would end, as the 12 finalists were announced. The youths who did not make it to stay on in the show were likely to resume their studies in school, catching up with classmates as they'd missed school for a week. But for those 12 finalists, their chances of going back to school this year will diminish each week they stay longer in the AF house. This season, eight contestants are aged between 15 and 17 years, and are studying at the high school level. If one of them stays on to become the winner, it means he or she will have to stay in the house for 12 weeks; that is, they will be missing school for 12 weeks. It seems certain this winner will have to drop studies for a year as there is no half-year "admission" for students to high school. If the winner is a university student, dropping out for a semester would have been possible. She suggested that the organizer should have adjusted the timing of the show accordingly so that it would have coincided with the school holidays. She said that there is no argument either about the company's efforts and its success in developing new talent for the Thai entertainment industry - but there should be a better way to sustain the business without jeopardizing the contestants' education.
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