Girl sent home from school due to hair style?

I think certain schools over react over inappropriate wear and hair colour because at the end of the day if it does not affect the person in any shape or form then why should it affect the school.

no way, why do they make you do that?!

Mine literally just implemented a rule this term where if you're late, you have to be in half an hour earlier the next day for a detention. If you miss that, you get an hour detention. If you miss that, you get a two hour detention with the head. And if you miss that, you get excluded

military-like schools smh

lol i just started a boarding school. We have a 3 strike system, if we are late 3 times in a term we loose our "sixth form privileges"- free periods

maaate I couldn't beat that, you poor thing

Do you enjoy boarding school?

well so far its quite fun tbh its only been 2 days.. foods decent and unlimited . All my schoolmates are there so its quite fun! but the teachers are also there as well so that can be helpful for stuff like my personal statement! Yeah and we don't have a bedtime! they shut off the wifi at 11pm though...

She is a teenager. Why shouldn't she express herself? Schools are not work-places for children. They are places of education and her hairstyle doesn't affect her willingness and ability to learn. Schools spend far too long disciplining children for not being in uniform that it impacts the teaching time. This is not the fault of children who want to express themselves but instead is because controlling headteachers think they have rights over the appearance of the students. It is not your body. It is not your hair. They are not your clothes. Therefore it is not your decision.

That sounds like heaven

Is it a mixed upper sixth? 11pm is too early to stop using the internet

Shut up. The West is full of privileged entitled spoilt brats and its because of attitudes like this. I have no issue with someone expressing themselves but they also need to appreciate authority and rules. If she was in college or university and chose to drop out to express herself and do her own thing then fair enough but whilst in school she either plays by the rules or she goes. Its as simple as that. I was obedient all through school because I respected authority. I was the same in college but in university, although I stuck it out, I put up with the way things were and then I did my own thing. Its learning to respect the way things are and knowing the right times to do your own thing. Now I've graduated ain't nobody out there who can tell me what to do cause I'm going to be me and Im going to do my own thing and anyone who tries to tell me otherwise can shove it. I'm a God and people gonna lay witness to my greatness and all the haters are gonna love me when I'm rich. Trust me. Ive even had people who've already hated on me sucking up to me already cause im making money. Bunch of losers if you ask me.

We do not need to 'respect authority' because someone is older or has power over you that you did not give them.

We do not need to blindly follow rules which we had no choice over if no-one gets hurt when we break them. Just because she is a child doesn't mean she isn't a person.

WTF??...

*Looks at her mum*

No wonder.

Good. The next generation of kids lack discipline in my opinion. They need bootcamp like treatment otherwise the future doesn't look promising.

"At the end of the day the school is there to help prepare students for the world of work and for the students to comply so one day they can be successful."

Ah yes, the good ol' one-two of Compliance and Obedience. God forbid anyone think for themselves.

This is a very simple situation. Does her hairstyle affect her learning? No? Then what's the big ****ing deal?

If she wants to look like a leopard then let her, it's not going to affect anybody else other than her when she gets the inevitable judgements of her peers levelled at her. At which point she'll learn a very valuable lesson: people can and will be judgey as **** for no apparent reason sometimes, and this'll probably continue until you die.
And seeing as sk00l is all about learning, and this is a lesson far better suited to understanding social interaction than anything taught in PSHE (due to the emotional weight it carries with it considering it's personal), I don't see what the issue is here.

"But the school said... it's in the rules..."

Blow me.