Story: Pink hair gets girl suspended
She wore pink to honor her father who died of cancer. What she forget to remember, was that there is a time and place to love your family...and school is not that place. The administrators had plans to shave it off, but they realized it might become even more of a distraction. Does everyone remember how hard it was to concentrate in class with all those bright colors everywhere in people's hair? Are we a nation with ADHD? With all of the new dress code policies, schools are making it harder and harder to even attend on a regular basis.
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Good! We need to teach students to follow rules. It was made clear in the student handbook, and she was warned to change it. There are plenty of ways to support cancer awareness besides dying your hair. Whether or not it is a distraction, we cannot allow some students to be excused from policy and not others. I commend the principal for setting this example.
I think this is crazy. As a teacher, pink hair is the least of my worries during the school day. We need to focus on the real problems facing our students, and not harass a 12-year old girl who puts pink streaks in her hair.
Agreed. IS this really the biggest problem in our schools?
Isn't there such a thing as a 'slap on the wrist' anymore?
In my schooling (Im going into grade 12 next year) I have had blue, red, pink, orange, green, teal, black, pink and black, purple, midnight blue and super blonde hair. The only reaction I got from teachers was "Oh that's different". I never once got in trouble and there was never a case of people staring at it and not doing work (I may have been the least popular girl in the school, but blue hair still brings attention).
Rules are rules, but unless this is a very expensive strict prep school or some nun school, teachers and administrators need to let students be human and express themselves (how else do we learn to be independent and grow if our schools go clone happy on us?).
I think Hitler also had this policy.
This is only part of what is going on in schoold. http://www.TeacherCrime.com
She's not harming anybody, and I doubt any student will be distracted any more than half a minute.
Then again, rules are rules and must be followed or enforced.
I think she *should* be punished, but in proportion to her indiscretion ... a concept that is being given up upon in a lot of places these days.
We are moving in the wrong direction here we waste too much time on non issues. There is an article in the AP today about adding GPS tracking ankle bracelets on students skipping school. This should trouble anyone who has read the constitution. For more info go to www.tapesite.com
Oh god, I was just about to dye my hair before I read this post.
I don't get why hair dying is offensive. I don't care if it's a policy- policies are made to help the education process, not nitpick about what students can and cannot look like because some senile principal has a power trip.
The whole thing kind of makes me rage. This student should not, in any way, be punished.
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