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

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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.

YANBU There was a similar story recently about a girl who had returned to school extra piercings that were against school rules. Her parents said she should be allowed to wear them so she could ‘express herself’ and the school were apparently suppressing her individuality or some nonsense. Oh and yes there was the obligatory photo of the parents with the sad faced hard done by schoolgirl.

Perhaps if the school spent more time on tackling bullying, which actually disrupts education, and less on dictating the color of students’ hair, which has nothing to do with education we’d be in a better place. Given the school has a clear policy on dying hair, however asinine I think that policy is I don’t take issue with the idiotic parent sentiment. But I can’t see that that’s the place to really focus criticism in such a case.

I don’t know what you mean greyhound

Much as I feel sorry for the girl regarding the bullying (I was badly bullied and the school did nothing), the parents know the rules and she is flaunting them. Were it in protest against the School poorly handling the bullying, I could perhaps understand. But I don’t think dying your hair —green— blue should be used as a confidence booster for a school aged child.

More like idiotic schools who give any importance to hair colour, or uniform.

Thankfully, DS doesn't have to worry about such petty, non-academic issues.

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

Yeah sure. Someone stole my bike the other day, so I can go and steal one as well, right?

I think dying your hair blue and being in the paper with your Mum and grandma is a one way ticket to being bullied

Have you seen the picture of this girl as she wore her hair at school? It's up in a bun which is itself covered, and you can only see a tiny bit of blue. OP, could you explain what is disruptive about that?

Well you need to work harder, then. If a child is bullied badly enough all the rest of that child's education is simply wasted and indeed the child will never hold down a job or a marriage. Confronting and stopping bullies is your number one first task.

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

It doesn’t take much effort to just pretend it isn’t happening and minimise it which is what a huge amount of families whose children experance bullying feel is what they have to deal with

It isn't really surprising is it that people for whom the system didn't work aren't totally in love with the system? I think sometimes people forget that if you're white, middle class and did the school-university-good job track, you were lucky. Plenty of people stick to the rules and end up poor and shat on. It's frustrating and people get tired and bored of it. The bullying children are breaking far more important rules but she's getting excluded.

I hated my school that was obsessed with rules (30 years ago) and yes, dyed my hair stupid colours and was threatened with exclusion. Didn't affect my excellent academic performance though. And I am a mostly functional member of society now. Mostly.

Love all the people on here telling this mother off for "flaunting the rules". Apparently flouting the rules doesn't matter when it comes to the rules of grammar.

JustHope My first thought too

And now, not only will she be bullied by those at her school, but will be bullied by commentators over the world online.

Your OP is so full of inappropriate and ott hatred and bile I don't think I could agree with you even if I did.
And I don't.

As an aside though, I fail to see how having blue/green/any coloured hair affect how people work or learn.

I really don’t see how personal image effects academia at all. I can see how it could help confidence in the person but how can it possibly be an issue to someone else if your school mate has coloured hair.

Seriously I think it’s appalling to squash people for wanting to be individual.

Oh and I think it’s a ridiculous pointless rule

How wearying. The singing teacher wants her to 'believe in herself'. This is just X Factor look at me shite taken to the max.

I can't quite see how making herself an object of attention will stop a bullied child from being bullied, and will giver her confidence.

Surely this will only give the bullies another weapon against her?

These kinds of rules are so outdated. Hair colour does not stop learning and putting children into isolation for it is ridiculous.

Parents know the rules about this stuff yet do it anyway then moan when they get pulled up on it.

I feel sorry for the child imagine being in the paper with your Mum over this rubbish how embarrassing, children are cruel so her school life won’t be getting any easier now will it

I can't honestly see how hair dye is "stupid ad disruptive". It's just a colour.

You sound very Daily Mail, OP, and I don't mean that as a compliment.

Our school allows dyed hair, make up, jeans, trainers, not bothering with the blazer, etc etc. It makes life do much more pleasant.

YABU - her hair is clearly green

I'm struggling to read the first post at all without imagining it all happening at Privet Drive, with the Dursleys nodding vigorously along to every word.

Disdain for authority! Unusual choice of hair! People not lining up and doing what they are told!

'These kinds of rules are so outdated. Hair colour does not stop learning and putting children into isolation for it is ridiculous.'

True. I support our school and our dc adhere to rules but I fail to see how hair colour is relevant. As long as pupils are clean and wearing the uniform that should be all that matters.