To think with mothers like this it is not surprising certain children don't get top grades at school

[mountford100]

Pupil who dyed her hair BLUE to 'boost her confidence after being bullied' is put into isolation by school.

www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/pupil-who-dyed-hair-blue-13772751

The parents can't wait until the media contact them, it is like all their christmases have come together when the papers bother to contact them.
Then you say the same picture of a girl/boy dressed in their school uniform surrounded by the parents enjoying the adulation of the media.

This is more important to these people than the fact their child has been excluded from school for stupid and disruptive behaviour . The behaviour is not just encouraged by these parents but actively facilitated (who gives the child the money to have silly haircuts shoes trousers etc). The child's parents will then declare they don't want their children ending up like them. However, they are totally complicit in why their child will end up with poor with their distain for the authority of school rules.

[mountford100]

See the same picture time and time again.

[TheRollingCrone]

idiot mothers

[Jellybean85]

Well actually this story does just refer to a mother/grandmother but yes fathers can be idiots too

The picture shows it as very blue and even when tied up it’s still visible. There are other ways to boost confidence with in the rules!!

[Awwlookatmybabyspider]

What about the "idiotic" bullies and "idiotic" school for allowing the bullying to continue. Do they not need a kick up it somewhere a long the line or are you a victim blamer.
The idiotic mother only got her child hair dyed to help boost her confidence. After having to watch her child endure constant tauñts from cunting bullies or did you conveniently not read that part.

[EnidNextDoor]

Umm...is it not actually green?

[gabsdot]

Those women are scary looking.

[LittleBooInABox]

If the school tackled the bullying problem, maybe it wouldn't have got to the need for this statement?

[NoCryLilSoftSoft]

Other than a photograph that story doesn’t refer to her mother at all. What makes you think her mother allowed her to do it?

[1stTimeMama]

The student should be allowed to do whatever they like with their own hair. I think it's ridiculous that a school has the power to dictate what a person can and can't do cosmetically.
The bullies should be the ones being punished!

Just one more reason not to send my children.

[Trueheart1]

I couldn't agree with you more. There are some people who will always blame others and not follow the rules. I doubt she is actually being bullied, it is just an excuse to do as she pleases.

[TsunamiOfShit]

To place someone in isolation is a bit extreme for this, isn't it? It's only hair!

[OstentatiousWanking]

How is a colour disruptive?

[Alvinstail]

So does being bullied allow her to flaunt the rules.

Do school rules not apply if your a victim?!

Op I agree. Idiots.

[mountford100]

I go on to say parents further down the posting indicating that fathers are just as liable, if not more likely to encourage their offspring to confront authority. I think some parents use their children as a means of expressing their contempt for the education they received !

This is particularly sad because the children being excluded for such things appear to be the most in need of all the time possible in education.

[Iamagreyhoundhearmeroar]

Something tells me this one wasn't exactly on course to get top grades anyway... Mum and Grandma look like complete morons.

[jay55]

The school probably has a bullying policy that it didn’t stick to. So why should the kids stick to the rules?

I think the time has past for schools to be hung up on kids.

[QuestionableMouse]

What difference does it make what colour her hair is? One of the lecturers at my uni has pink hair. It's fab.

I'd also say a good 40% of students have bright hair. It's not stopping them learning.

[SoupDragon]

My main thoughts are that it looks dreadful and I wouldn't want to mess with her mother or grandmother.

[WishfulThanking]

I think her hair looks amazing actually , but yes it's against the school's rules, so I am not sure why she is in the paper. The comments on that article are disgusting, and the mother is on there defending herself. People are insulting her lack of intelligence/education etc. Britons love to slag off those they see as beneath them.

[smerlin]

Love all the posters saying 'the school should have done more to stop the bullying'

Clearly never worked in a school/with teens. Bullying is one of the absolute hardest things to deal with as a school. We spend hours upon hours working on this. Workshops, assemblies, PSHEE about not bullying. Restorative work, sanctions, exclusions. It is still one of the hardest things to 'solve' as a school, particularly with social media being part of it and with how sly the 'bullies' can be.

Still not an excuse to break the rules though

[editingfairy]

Um. All we have to go on here is the gran saying the girl was bullied. We have no way of knowing what happened or what the school did to help. In fact, the school says she was 'bullied and taunted in primary and secondary' - two different schools.

For whatever reason, this family has an agenda and the attitude that they can do what they want and school rules don't matter.

With families like that... who needs enemies?

Were there really no other ways they could think of to increase her self-esteem??? Really?

And if you were shy and bullied, would you want to dye your knee-length hair (!) blue? or even green?

It's all a bit mad. And the poor girl - is this really the kind of publicity she needs? Her gran and mum look ... scary.

[WishfulThanking]

I think the ridiculously short skirts some school girls wear is more of an issue if we're talking about appearance, so I really don't get why schools are so fixated on hair styles.