White braids banned....
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The Head Teacher (Head....ironic as well) needs to be reprimanded by the local educational department. Utterly stupid in the extreme, the head clearly didn't ban the black and mixed race child from having their heads in braids as they would have been branded a racist so takes it out on another thinking they could get away with it.
Equal rights; the clue's in the title!
I can understand the school wanting to have standards on what is acceptable, but if you allow black kids to have braids then it must be acceptable, ergo, the whites kids should be able to have then as well. Would be nice if our press had better things to worry themselves about, but the British public's appetite for irrelevancy seems to know no bounds
I can understand the school wanting to have standards on what is acceptable, but if you allow black kids to have braids then it must be acceptable, ergo, the whites kids should be able to have then as well. Would be nice if our press had better things to worry themselves about, but the British public's appetite for irrelevancy seems to know no bounds
They've dug themselves into a right hole with this one. Couldn't care less about the girl's "right" to wear her hair like that but it's pure stupidity on the school's part to class it as "extreme".
I presume there's another reason why they have put their foot down (serial trouble maker maybe?). I'm not sure this is pro-black racism anyway.
I presume there's another reason why they have put their foot down (serial trouble maker maybe?). I'm not sure this is pro-black racism anyway.
It just sounds like another child trying to push the bounds of the school dress code, Kids will always try to push the envelope of what they can get away with, its just more and more they end up running to the newspapers claiming some kind of discrimnination.
There are differences in society and the scool obviously trys to accommodate them by allowing coloured girls wear their hair in brades.
I assume if there are boys at her school that they have to wear their hair short, so how would this girl like it if to avoid sexual discrimination they asked the girls to cut their hair short as well.
My view is the school has a dress code, if you don’t want to abide by that dress code go to another school, if there is not an alternative then tough get over it, treat it as a life lesson
>> Edited by cotty on Friday 18th March 16:25
There are differences in society and the scool obviously trys to accommodate them by allowing coloured girls wear their hair in brades.
I assume if there are boys at her school that they have to wear their hair short, so how would this girl like it if to avoid sexual discrimination they asked the girls to cut their hair short as well.
My view is the school has a dress code, if you don’t want to abide by that dress code go to another school, if there is not an alternative then tough get over it, treat it as a life lesson
>> Edited by cotty on Friday 18th March 16:25
Okay - I am a govenor of a middle school. I would go nuts if this action had been taken by our head. They are either banned or not banned. In no way should it dipend on the person being white or black.
Wonder what would happen if two friends, one black, the other white with tight culing hair, grew afros?
One of the things that gets me about this though is that the hair do looks quite neat and tidy to me, far better than some of the bed heads I see in the morning!
Wonder what would happen if two friends, one black, the other white with tight culing hair, grew afros?
One of the things that gets me about this though is that the hair do looks quite neat and tidy to me, far better than some of the bed heads I see in the morning!
brainsaw said:
I assume if there are boys at her school that they have to wear their hair short
I thought schools stopped rules like this in the 60s! .. I had long hair at school no problem.
.. They wouldn't let me wear a skirt tho.
I was born in 1971 and all the schools I went to required boys to wear their hair at the very least neat and tidy and certainly not long
All teachers should have to spend a little time working as bricklayers labourers say every couple of years. This would at least introduce them to the concept of being thrown in the compo when they used their arse to talk with.
Freind of mines 11 year old daughter won national Karate championship a few years ago. Headteacher wants press and big song and dance at assembly etc.
At breaktime that day 2 4th year boys decide to see how good Karate really is and smack the little girl in the mouth. 1st reaction is to cry as you would expect. Anyway these 2 brave young men then proceed to start kicking her. A this point she realises she is in trouble and fights back. Her final kick had 1 brave youths head hitting the concrete before his body did.
And the Headmaster
Oh he called the police and insisted she was charged. Fortunately the Police Inspector was fluent at making headmasters scared.
Freind of mines 11 year old daughter won national Karate championship a few years ago. Headteacher wants press and big song and dance at assembly etc.
At breaktime that day 2 4th year boys decide to see how good Karate really is and smack the little girl in the mouth. 1st reaction is to cry as you would expect. Anyway these 2 brave young men then proceed to start kicking her. A this point she realises she is in trouble and fights back. Her final kick had 1 brave youths head hitting the concrete before his body did.
And the Headmaster
Oh he called the police and insisted she was charged. Fortunately the Police Inspector was fluent at making headmasters scared.
agent006 said:
Would someone care to explain why a pupil's hairstyle is teh business of the school? They are in loco=parentis during the day, but they do not "own" the pupil therefore have absolutely no right to influence their physical appearence no matter what colour skin.
Because if the school can't set limits. it becomes a 'cult of the personality' everything eventually goes out the window, and learning becomes the last thing on a kids mind.
At the age of 17 I shaved the sides of my head - actually it looked really silly, but I thought it was cool. The head of 6th form telephoned my parents to tell them, saying that she had seen me coming out of the hairdressers!! That was pure BS - I did it myself with a Bic disposable in the 6th form toilets at break time. Mum and dad were mortified that the stupid old bat had contacted them - mum was livid about their 'standing' in the local community!
Dr Strangelove said:
Because if the school can't set limits. it becomes a 'cult of the personality' everything eventually goes out the window, and learning becomes the last thing on a kids mind.
I can understand that for uniforms, as you can take off a uniform when you get home. I don't however, see how someone's haircut affects their educational ability. According to that school's rules i'd have been expelled for having a shaved head. Doesn't figure with my 13GCSEs, 3 a levels and impending 1st does it?
You cannot have one rule for one and a different rule for others (unless your in parliament of course) What does this teach the rest of the kids about rules etc? Nothing apart from that their head teacher is inconsistent. If it was mohicans, radically dyed or shaved then I could see the reason, but not when pupils at the same school have the same hairstyle.
It's preposterous that in these days of supposed racial equality we find ourselves discriminated against by the over PC nanny brigade.
It's preposterous that in these days of supposed racial equality we find ourselves discriminated against by the over PC nanny brigade.
OK, nobody owns a hairstyle. What if they went the other way around and said that all those black (African/American--whichever name you prefer)women who dye their hair blond, red, etc and use relaxer are being racist for imitating white people? Girls all over the place here have worn their hair like that for years. Some did it while I was in highschool (which was >10 years ago). There were girls on my highschool basketball team (black and white) who braided each other's hair in matching hairstyles, like the photo, on game days. I mean, come on people.
Banning a hairstyle, and making that girl feel like she's the one who's done wrong is the stupidest thing I've ever seen. "extreme" hairstyle. It's not even unusual. For any race.
Clearly she hasn't done it in mockery of anyone. I thought that incorporating different cultures was to be applauded.
Why don't we just say you can't wear plaid unless you're Scottish, or you can't eat Chinese food unless you're actually Chinese, too.
This administrator needs to be removed.
Banning a hairstyle, and making that girl feel like she's the one who's done wrong is the stupidest thing I've ever seen. "extreme" hairstyle. It's not even unusual. For any race.
Clearly she hasn't done it in mockery of anyone. I thought that incorporating different cultures was to be applauded.
Why don't we just say you can't wear plaid unless you're Scottish, or you can't eat Chinese food unless you're actually Chinese, too.
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rude-boy said:
Okay - I am a govenor of a middle school. I would go nuts if this action had been taken by our head. They are either banned or not banned. In no way should it dipend on the person being white or black.
Wonder what would happen if two friends, one black, the other white with tight culing hair, grew afros?
One of the things that gets me about this though is that the hair do looks quite neat and tidy to me, far better than some of the bed heads I see in the morning!
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