Re: Red Hair Not Allowed in School?

capecdcat1 · ‎03-28-2010

Cannot believe I am going to comment here...(No haters or meanies need respond)

That said,I was a hairstylist for 22+ yrs. Middle schoolers and high schoolers had me bleaching and coloring their hair my entire career.As a matter of fact,I sprayed my son's hair red,white,and blue for Flag Day in first grade.I have bleached,spiked and dyed his hair whenever he asked.If that is the wildest thing he does while growing up I will be the happiest Mom to have walked the planet.There are alot more important rules and morals we can instill in our kids .My son is polite and other adults compliment us on his behavior frequently.He is an honor roll student and we have never had the school contact us saying his hair was a distraction.This rule is ridiculous!They need to focus on the "readin',writin' and 'rithmatic"!

this is my nic · ‎03-30-2010

There have to be rules or schools would be crazier than they now are. If the student's hair was bright red, not a normal redhead color, I say they are right. It is distracting.

BTW, I went to public schools and girls could not wear pants of any kind, no jeans for boys either. This was in PA and many cold, snowy mornings the girls would wear long pants under their skirts and then once in school take them off. We all survived!

Today, I'm told that parents refuse to follow guidelines for dress codes. No wonder there are so many problems regarding education.

sidsmom · ‎11-25-2011

Life is about rules. That IS part of the education. LIFE education. Clearly that's not being met @ home.

Used2Shop · ‎04-01-2010

On 8/16/2014 di-mc said:
There have to be rules or schools would be crazier than they now are. If the student's hair was bright red, not a normal redhead color, I say they are right. It is distracting.

BTW, I went to public schools and girls could not wear pants of any kind, no jeans for boys either. This was in PA and many cold, snowy mornings the girls would wear long pants under their skirts and then once in school take them off. We all survived!

Today, I'm told that parents refuse to follow guidelines for dress codes. No wonder there are so many problems regarding education.

Thirty years of middle school here. Yep. When you are having trouble with a student and you meet the parent, everything comes into focus. They rarely see anything wrong with what their child is doing and place the blame somewhere else.

"Outrageous hairstyles" usually equal children who are not given boundaries at home. Children who understand boundaries and receive school support at home just do much better.

Used2Shop · ‎04-01-2010

On 8/16/2014 sidsmom said:
Life is about rules. That IS part of the education. LIFE education. Clearly that's not being met @ home.

Amen. You said it better than I did and in fewer words.

maestra · ‎03-09-2010

On 8/16/2014 Used2Shop said:
On 8/16/2014 di-mc said:
There have to be rules or schools would be crazier than they now are. If the student's hair was bright red, not a normal redhead color, I say they are right. It is distracting.

BTW, I went to public schools and girls could not wear pants of any kind, no jeans for boys either. This was in PA and many cold, snowy mornings the girls would wear long pants under their skirts and then once in school take them off. We all survived!

Today, I'm told that parents refuse to follow guidelines for dress codes. No wonder there are so many problems regarding education.

Thirty years of middle school here. Yep. When you are having trouble with a student and you meet the parent, everything comes into focus. They rarely see anything wrong with what their child is doing and place the blame somewhere else.

"Outrageous hairstyles" usually equal children who are not given boundaries at home. Children who understand boundaries and receive school support at home just do much better.

Decades experience here also and the students w/fewer boundaries and guidance from parents often are experimenting w/drugs, s @ x, and are often lost by their late teens. Then parents will seem confused as to how things worked out.

Carmie · ‎10-25-2010

Whoa! All she has has to do is use shampoo and all of her color will fade and wash down the drain.

I hope she doesn' t use WEN or her color will last forever.

F1wild · ‎11-30-2011

I believe in freedom of expression.

For gosh sakes, remember the disco days, grunge, goth?

Used2Shop · ‎04-01-2010

On 8/16/2014 F1wild said:
I believe in freedom of expression.

For gosh sakes, remember the disco days, grunge, goth?

I remember that. But it wasn't allowed at school either.

wildcat fan · ‎03-23-2010

On 8/16/2014 di-mc said:
There have to be rules or schools would be crazier than they now are. If the student's hair was bright red, not a normal redhead color, I say they are right. It is distracting.

BTW, I went to public schools and girls could not wear pants of any kind, no jeans for boys either. This was in PA and many cold, snowy mornings the girls would wear long pants under their skirts and then once in school take them off. We all survived!

Today, I'm told that parents refuse to follow guidelines for dress codes. No wonder there are so many problems regarding education.

One of the rules parents refuse to follow around here has to do with facial piercings (lips, nose, eyebrows). It's in the handbook and they go over it and over it at the beginning of the school year, but in January dozens of middle school students come in after Christmas break with their new piercings (a Christmas present from mom or dad). When schools try to tell them to take out the piercings, parents start demanding for money to reimburse them for the costs of the piercings. Instead of standing their ground, the school officials caved. We also had rules about distracting hair dyes, but they did away with those a couple of years ago because so many parents complained and stuck up for their kids' rights to have pink, blue, and purple hair. They say they have to choose their battles and this is one they're tired of fighting.