Girl sent home from school due to hair style?

Firstly the kid was picked on - so what her answer? Get a haircut that guarantees she will be picked on even more

Secondly - she looks like a boy. A rather sulky boy at that

Unless her haircut involved a scalping she's not unfit for school.




I'm not saying there are laws in place, but if a parent faces fines and jail time for taking a child out of school without good reason then so should a school.

is so depressing. As if in the "adult world" you can't possibly have a respectable place in society while also having a kind of strange hairstyle

Honestly **** like that feels like something out of a george orwell novel. "Expressing yourself through personal style and individual choices must not be culturally acceptable!!"

It'd be funny if it wasn't so sad.

It might be sad but it's true. The world judges you based on your appearance. It may not be right, butthere's a difference in the social and cultural acceptability of certain hairstyles whether we like it or not. A school would do its pupils a disservice to pretend otherwise.

Maybe they could give the pupils a list of approved hairstyles.

Schools are also about discipline, her mum sent her to that school and should have known the rules. The student broke the rules and was therefore punished.

True, but I think we should examine the issue deeper by seeking to define what it is that makes a rule worth implementing.

From here, it looks as though the school has a rule regarding how people look. Does that not seem absurd to you? We're talking about an institution of learning, and what this "rule" imparts (at a base level) is "if you don't look like we want you to, you're going to get punished". A bit draconian, no?

This "rule" is nothing more than an opinion that has weight behind it on paper only. There's no moral high ground to be gained from it, and it operates under the implication that someone's appearance directly influences their ability to learn (which as we all know, is ridiculous as well as completely illogical).

Obeying rules without questioning them is retarded. I'm not advocating complete defiance of any and all laws, merely that they be questioned if they seek to serve no beneficial purpose for the populace. And that thought extends to the schooling environment as well.

It's not really any different to her turning up in a Nike tracksuit and complaining that she's been sent home. I've always thought schools having uniforms is a bit silly but it's just part of going to school in the UK.

By its' very definition it's different. A school uniform is part of a dress code, a haircut is part of a persons' very identity.

But the schools uniform doesn't apply merely to dress code, it includes hairstyles

Which it shouldn't. Make kids wear a school uniform if you must, but their personal stylings should never be brought under microscope because how children, especially teenagers, express themselves is an important part of them finding out who they are and what kind of person they are. If they don't like who they are, or who their appearance makes others perceive the individual to be, then they can change, but the change must be brought on by themselves instead of someone else in "authority" telling them what they should look like.

Which brings me back to the questioning of rules.

She should hire a lawyer and attempt to sue the school.

But then why is a dress code okay but telling kids to have sensible haircuts isn't?

Maybe they could give the pupils a list of approved hairstyles.