Norfolk Schoolboy Put In Isolation For Short Hair Cut

[mikey4444]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-40443089

I know that we will get the normal "school rules" response here on AB, but I think it looks rather neat and tidy.

Compare this with what I looked like at his age !

[Mamyalynne]

Yes it is neat but it is also what most schools would class as extreme.


We can't compare unless you put up a photo ;-)

[Sqad]

He looks like a thug.............should fit in well with many schools, but clearly this was acceptable to you mikey, but not the school authorities.
I support the decision to suspend him.

[mallyh]

I agree with you nice and neat .my granddaughters ex school and grandsons school is like that school, they seem to be more worried about uniform etc than teaching (her class sat an exam and the questioned asked hadn't been taught )also some of the teachers could set an example .

[pixie374]

It's getting ridiculous. Schools need to concentrate more on education and less on superficial judgement.

[mikey4444]

mamy....I looked like a male version of Shirley Temple !

[kvalidir]

People's appearance should be their own affair. We pay taxes to have our children educated not to have teachers highhanded wasting their time implementing pointless rules instead of doing their jobs. It;s a shame most schools don't put as much effort into addressing bullying as they do into picking on people who disobey their often draconian uniform policy which in itself can be a form of bullying- no wonder then that often their pupils learn by example and emulate unpleasant and controlling behaviour.

[pixie374]

Did you have a beard?

[Sqad]

LOL ...LOL....^^^^ you mean mikey, you looked like Shirley Temple with a penis?

[kvalidir]

grrr 'highhandedly' sorry typo :)

[pixie374]

Exactly, kvalidir. Telling people what they should look like and what they should wear is not a healthy start to being an adult.

[murraymints]

it's not blue..pink..purple..rainbow....it's clean...what he'd get if he enlisted..don't see the issue...

[pixie374]

Lol, sqad- say it how you see it :-)

[mikey4444]

Sqad....yes but only a small one !

No Pixie....every time I have ever tried to grow a beard,
I look like I have been run over by a strimmer.

[Mamyalynne]

I can only comment on the school guidelines of those attended by my own children and now my grandchildren - this style would be outside their rules.

If this school did not give clear guidance then the lad and his mother have a grievance - if guidelines were clear then they haven't.

Both daughters were sent home at various times for so called extreme styles/colours.

[mikey4444]

Minty...I was just about to make the same remark....if he had been enlisting, I am sure his haircut would have look similar.

[pixie374]

A school's guidelines should be about behaviour, attitude, respect, courtesy etc. Not haircuts.

[Sqad]

He wasn't enlisting........he was a schoolboy.

[murraymints]

a lot of young boys of a certain era had longer curls..my dad did until he started school....

[pixie374]

Do you think he would learn better with longer hair sqad? How is it even relevant?

[murraymints]

ah..but what's good for Her Maj's forces is good for Educationional institutes too in my opinion...better than unkempt long greasy straggly hair...