Seems like too many schools have arbitrary rules just for the sake of having rules.
>17 Jun 2011: [School’s refusal to let boy wear cornrow braids is ruled racial discrimination](https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2011/jun/17/school-ban-cornrow-braids-discrimination)
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>The test case decision is a victory for the family of African-Caribbean teenager “G”, who wears his hair in cornrow braids as part of a family tradition.
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>G, who cannot be named, and his mother challenged a refusal by St Gregory’s Catholic Science College in Kenton, Harrow, north London, to let G through the school gates with his braids in September 2009, when he was 11.
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>Mr Justice Collins, sitting in London, ruled that the hair policy was not unlawful in itself, “but if it is applied without any possibility of exception, such as G, then it is unlawful”.
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>He said in future the school authorities must consider allowing other boys to wear cornrows if it is “a genuine family tradition based on cultural and social reasons”.
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>Even though the family’s application for judicial review was successful, G, now 13, does not wish to return to the school, which he left in tears on his first day.
School I went to had no rules at all on things like this and was absolutely fine. Always bizarre to see so many schools with such strict ones in place, do they really think it works at whatever they are trying to achieve? does it really create an environment where pupils feel comfortable in, or just unnecessary pressure? Just shouts of some desperate headteachers trying to be seen to be taking control. Give it up.
Always makes me laugh how schools try and have all these rules on appearance for pupils and yet none of them apply to teachers.
All part of the power trip. These are adults that want authority and power. They can’t boss other adults around and tell them what to do so they do it to kids. They’ll be so proud of themselves for this. Meanwhile no teaching happens.
Like boys not being allowed to wear shorts when it’s 37 in the classrooms,
Like the girl with a medical condition making her hair fall out not being allowed to wear a simple hat indoors.
Just a power trip.
My school was very strict, if you went against their uniform rules they’d send you home. Once they held an assembly and searched all the girls bags for makeup and confiscated whatever was found.
Fucking ridiculous. What difference does it make how his hair look like?
I he turned up with it dies shocking pink gelled vertically up…I could _kinda_ see the school having a point; or they could just have him sit at the back so he’s not in the way of others.
But plaits? FFS. Also, undercuts are still a thing?
As a grown man I wore my hair in a plait when motorcycling, means I got to the far end without it in a tangled mess. Not a problem I’ve had as I’ve gotten older (nae hair).
Gotta stamp out that individuality as early as possible, we can’t have a workforce that questions the rules. I seriously hate this shit. We should be encouraging children to express their individuality. We have a problem I’m society where people are judged because they express themselves through fashion and hair and body art. We can easily stop this by allowing kids to be themselves. All we’re doing is teaching kids to isolate those that are different.
Ok on the basis that schools prep you for the world of work this makes sense. However in the last 10 years the world of work has massively relaxed when it comes to hair and clothing. I have a boring stuffy job (lawyer) and at my last interview I was interviewed by a partner wearing jeans and a tshirt. Times have changed and schools need to catch up.
My little sister was sent home from school on her first day of year 9 because her shoes were too shiny.
This “preparing students for the world of work” line headteachers love to trot out to justify all this was bollocks then and it’s even more bollocks now. It’s only really the famously reasonable retail industry that gives a crap about what length your hair is.
More conditioning kids to be obedient drone workers. Get up early, put your uniform/suit on, work 9-3 with a break allowed in between before you’re allowed out to go home. At least kids get 12 weeks holiday a year though.
Follow suit, all do it. Can’t punish you all. This is how you learn to unionise
A girl shaved her head at my school and was suspended and forced to wear a wig when she returned. This was about ten years ago though!
What. Surely this is a good thing, mans got long hair, wants to keep it tidy for school.
While I think he looks terrible I would absolutely defend his right to look like that.
In the 90s my little sister got detention for wearing trousers in winter. She took the detention and then turned up the next morning wearing trousers again. After a couple of days they changed their uniform policy. I’ve never been more proud.
These rules are made up by people whose idea of an office setting is one from the 1960s.
British schools are becoming increasingly out of touch with reality.
As the private sector moves more and more toward smart casual, home working, and allowing staff’s self-expression, school uniforms and dress code become more elaborate and silly whilst still managing to be cheap and tacky.
I see kids in ties and blazers for school. What relation does that bear to the world of work? Most corporate and private sector gigs are smart casual, and open collar is absolutely business smart. Blazers are smart casual anyway (and you don’t wear a tie with a blazer outside of a fucking yacht club).
Unless you’re selling holidays or used cars, nobody fucking dresses like that.
I went to a school that didn’t have uniforms from the age of 14-18. We obviously weren’t allowed to wear anything too ‘extreme’ and no hats or hoods up indoors, but aside from that I don’t remember there being any big rules except for nothing too skimpy. We could dye our hair, wear jewellery, make up etc. It never affected my learning and I didn’t even think about it after a while. I wish that schools weren’t so strict about these things, it really makes no sense to me.
I wonder if this would apply to girls? He went full Beckham
My cousin got threatened to be banned from taking his GCSEs because he dyed his hair
I had my GCSEs in 2006. For those who remember it was a very hot spring/summer that year. We were allowed to wear whatever we wanted. As with everyone else, I wore shorts.
I had a male teacher come up to me and ask me to not wear shorts next time because one of the other female teachers said so. I just gave him that look then sat down. I could see he didn’t want to ask me it, but he had to because some prude didn’t like my hairy legs or something.
Surprised this is news, in our school male hair wasn’t allowed to infringe on our ears. Granted I ended school in 2005, but didn’t think it was that long ago.
I love how nothing has changed.
I got sent home for having spikey hair, so I shaved it to grade 1, I got sent home again.
I hate this shit. Headteachers love uniform, all they ever seem to want to do is make it stricter and stricter. They trot out the same stuff about behaviour without anything to back it up.
I especially hate it when they police things that continue out of school, like your hair.
There was a lad at my school that got in bother for his unkempt hair and beard. He retaliated with a bic shave on his head and beard but left a massive set of jet black mutton chops. Head teacher never knew what to do lol.
Just stupid, but when things coming serious like dealing with bullying schools will kept quiet and do fuck all…
To a teacher being thought of as an authority and being considered the 4th emergency service is literally much more important than educating children. Come on, now. How could he possibly learn if he didn’t follow *all of the school’s rules to the letter?*
Why, I once tried to use a school computer with my tie loose and I immediately forgot my own home address.
Don’t let this happen to you.
>Like most schools, we try to accommodate a range of hairstyles without resorting to any punitive action.
Damn they’re out of touch, don’t even recognize that the concept of an acceptable hairstyle is weird
My 5yr old son was sent home once because apparently he had diarrhoea and had an accident In his underwear and trousers
Picked him up > trousers and underwear were clean and he had no idea what they were on about when we mentioned diarrhoea. He went to the toilet fine all day after that
Another day they called us moaning that the yoghurt in his lunch was half a degree too warm, they’d put a thermometer through the lid to test it
On one hand, I get that wearing a uniform, you have to look a certain way so I get that teachers would complain. But on the other, you’ll stop a hard working student from learning over nonsense? How about just sending a note saying the hair style isn’t allowed….or just changing the rules?
Where does this obsession with controlling children come from?
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Seems like too many schools have arbitrary rules just for the sake of having rules.
>17 Jun 2011: [School’s refusal to let boy wear cornrow braids is ruled racial discrimination](https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2011/jun/17/school-ban-cornrow-braids-discrimination)
>
>The test case decision is a victory for the family of African-Caribbean teenager “G”, who wears his hair in cornrow braids as part of a family tradition.
>
>G, who cannot be named, and his mother challenged a refusal by St Gregory’s Catholic Science College in Kenton, Harrow, north London, to let G through the school gates with his braids in September 2009, when he was 11.
>
>Mr Justice Collins, sitting in London, ruled that the hair policy was not unlawful in itself, “but if it is applied without any possibility of exception, such as G, then it is unlawful”.
>
>He said in future the school authorities must consider allowing other boys to wear cornrows if it is “a genuine family tradition based on cultural and social reasons”.
>
>Even though the family’s application for judicial review was successful, G, now 13, does not wish to return to the school, which he left in tears on his first day.
School I went to had no rules at all on things like this and was absolutely fine. Always bizarre to see so many schools with such strict ones in place, do they really think it works at whatever they are trying to achieve? does it really create an environment where pupils feel comfortable in, or just unnecessary pressure? Just shouts of some desperate headteachers trying to be seen to be taking control. Give it up.
Always makes me laugh how schools try and have all these rules on appearance for pupils and yet none of them apply to teachers.
All part of the power trip. These are adults that want authority and power. They can’t boss other adults around and tell them what to do so they do it to kids. They’ll be so proud of themselves for this. Meanwhile no teaching happens.
Like boys not being allowed to wear shorts when it’s 37 in the classrooms,
Like the girl with a medical condition making her hair fall out not being allowed to wear a simple hat indoors.
Just a power trip.
My school was very strict, if you went against their uniform rules they’d send you home. Once they held an assembly and searched all the girls bags for makeup and confiscated whatever was found.
Fucking ridiculous. What difference does it make how his hair look like?
I he turned up with it dies shocking pink gelled vertically up…I could _kinda_ see the school having a point; or they could just have him sit at the back so he’s not in the way of others.
But plaits? FFS. Also, undercuts are still a thing?
As a grown man I wore my hair in a plait when motorcycling, means I got to the far end without it in a tangled mess. Not a problem I’ve had as I’ve gotten older (nae hair).
Gotta stamp out that individuality as early as possible, we can’t have a workforce that questions the rules. I seriously hate this shit. We should be encouraging children to express their individuality. We have a problem I’m society where people are judged because they express themselves through fashion and hair and body art. We can easily stop this by allowing kids to be themselves. All we’re doing is teaching kids to isolate those that are different.
Ok on the basis that schools prep you for the world of work this makes sense. However in the last 10 years the world of work has massively relaxed when it comes to hair and clothing. I have a boring stuffy job (lawyer) and at my last interview I was interviewed by a partner wearing jeans and a tshirt. Times have changed and schools need to catch up.
My little sister was sent home from school on her first day of year 9 because her shoes were too shiny.
This “preparing students for the world of work” line headteachers love to trot out to justify all this was bollocks then and it’s even more bollocks now. It’s only really the famously reasonable retail industry that gives a crap about what length your hair is.
More conditioning kids to be obedient drone workers. Get up early, put your uniform/suit on, work 9-3 with a break allowed in between before you’re allowed out to go home. At least kids get 12 weeks holiday a year though.
Follow suit, all do it. Can’t punish you all. This is how you learn to unionise
A girl shaved her head at my school and was suspended and forced to wear a wig when she returned. This was about ten years ago though!
What. Surely this is a good thing, mans got long hair, wants to keep it tidy for school.
While I think he looks terrible I would absolutely defend his right to look like that.
In the 90s my little sister got detention for wearing trousers in winter. She took the detention and then turned up the next morning wearing trousers again. After a couple of days they changed their uniform policy. I’ve never been more proud.
These rules are made up by people whose idea of an office setting is one from the 1960s.
British schools are becoming increasingly out of touch with reality.
As the private sector moves more and more toward smart casual, home working, and allowing staff’s self-expression, school uniforms and dress code become more elaborate and silly whilst still managing to be cheap and tacky.
I see kids in ties and blazers for school. What relation does that bear to the world of work? Most corporate and private sector gigs are smart casual, and open collar is absolutely business smart. Blazers are smart casual anyway (and you don’t wear a tie with a blazer outside of a fucking yacht club).
Unless you’re selling holidays or used cars, nobody fucking dresses like that.
I went to a school that didn’t have uniforms from the age of 14-18. We obviously weren’t allowed to wear anything too ‘extreme’ and no hats or hoods up indoors, but aside from that I don’t remember there being any big rules except for nothing too skimpy. We could dye our hair, wear jewellery, make up etc. It never affected my learning and I didn’t even think about it after a while. I wish that schools weren’t so strict about these things, it really makes no sense to me.
I wonder if this would apply to girls? He went full Beckham
My cousin got threatened to be banned from taking his GCSEs because he dyed his hair
I had my GCSEs in 2006. For those who remember it was a very hot spring/summer that year. We were allowed to wear whatever we wanted. As with everyone else, I wore shorts.
I had a male teacher come up to me and ask me to not wear shorts next time because one of the other female teachers said so. I just gave him that look then sat down. I could see he didn’t want to ask me it, but he had to because some prude didn’t like my hairy legs or something.
Surprised this is news, in our school male hair wasn’t allowed to infringe on our ears. Granted I ended school in 2005, but didn’t think it was that long ago.
I love how nothing has changed.
I got sent home for having spikey hair, so I shaved it to grade 1, I got sent home again.
I hate this shit. Headteachers love uniform, all they ever seem to want to do is make it stricter and stricter. They trot out the same stuff about behaviour without anything to back it up.
I especially hate it when they police things that continue out of school, like your hair.
There was a lad at my school that got in bother for his unkempt hair and beard. He retaliated with a bic shave on his head and beard but left a massive set of jet black mutton chops. Head teacher never knew what to do lol.
Just stupid, but when things coming serious like dealing with bullying schools will kept quiet and do fuck all…
To a teacher being thought of as an authority and being considered the 4th emergency service is literally much more important than educating children. Come on, now. How could he possibly learn if he didn’t follow *all of the school’s rules to the letter?*
Why, I once tried to use a school computer with my tie loose and I immediately forgot my own home address.
Don’t let this happen to you.
>Like most schools, we try to accommodate a range of hairstyles without resorting to any punitive action.
Damn they’re out of touch, don’t even recognize that the concept of an acceptable hairstyle is weird
My 5yr old son was sent home once because apparently he had diarrhoea and had an accident In his underwear and trousers
Picked him up > trousers and underwear were clean and he had no idea what they were on about when we mentioned diarrhoea. He went to the toilet fine all day after that
Another day they called us moaning that the yoghurt in his lunch was half a degree too warm, they’d put a thermometer through the lid to test it
On one hand, I get that wearing a uniform, you have to look a certain way so I get that teachers would complain. But on the other, you’ll stop a hard working student from learning over nonsense? How about just sending a note saying the hair style isn’t allowed….or just changing the rules?
Where does this obsession with controlling children come from?