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.

They certainly look quite brutal...it's all about what a wonderful singe the kid is though...which isn't transparent at all...no, guv...

*singer

I totally agree with MrsTerryPratchett ...

"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." So true.

and TheFirstMrsDV

Plus the hair is green not blue. And what does it matter what colour the hair is!

Maybe the posters advocating copying the 'liberal' USA ideas about school discipline need to read this !

fox17.com/news/local/tennessee-mother-questions-corporal-punishment-after-daughter-allegedly-bruised

I would’t want to get in an argument with the girl’s mother or grandmother, that’s for sure.

What would you prefer to a school to be 'stiff' with things like Blazers and Hair cuts or for you child to be hit with a stick.

21 states in the USA allow the use of Corporal Punishment in schools.

I am not sure why you think it has to be one or the other Mountford?

My eldest dyed her hair blue at the beginning of one summer holiday. We were going to have it cut off/dyed out by September. it was bleached but the blue was supposed to be semi-permanent. Had it cut short: the ends were still blue. Used colour stripper: the ends were now greeny pale blue. Tried to dye over it: ends were orangey green, but looked worse as short sides and roots were natural colour.
Went back to school: straight into isolation. There was nothing I could do without shaving off her hair completely. We ended up colouring it in with a sharpie for two weeks until it grew just enough for another trim and professional (neutral) colour. None of the other DC have ever been allowed to dye their hair a mad colour! I felt like the worst parent in the world, but no way would I have gone to the press to show myself up even more!

That's a false dichotomy mountford. The opposite of being strict on blazers isn't academic rock bottom.

What about law-abiding, rule-bound, boring as white bread Canada? No corporal punishment, no uniform.

No the point is Some American schools may allow the free choice of clothes to be worn by students , but the sanction of physical punishment is used for discipline. The wearing of school uniform and a strictness on hair lengths color or shoe types is how UK schools retain discipline.

However, even within the US High School system a student having a unusual hair color maybe excluded from lessons, if that haircut denoted an association with something unsavory.

www.bss.on.ca/senior-school/

'Posh' Canadian School.

Why is she getting tormented anyway? You'd think this girl and her family would want to address that first...

My hair has been every different colour of the rainbow.
Never affected my ability to do my job.
My dd wants to dye her hair and I'm fine with that but I know the school will not be happy and she knows that I can hardly go in with my hair coz they'll think I'm not conforming to school rules. She hasn't dyed it yet.

I'm more concerned with finding out are is wrong with her pe trainers that means she can't do pe.

I never said it was unusual to google a potential, employee. I said it was unusual that you would judge someone for something they did when they were 12 (was able to focus and read article once oh scrolled past green hair pic for me) and if you chose not to employ that person for that then I’d be quite happy not to work for you.

The wearing of school uniform and a strictness on hair lengths color or shoe types is how UK schools retain discipline.

How's that working out?

It's a silly, pointless and wasteful way to retain discipline.

What would you prefer to a school to be 'stiff' with things lke Blazers and Hair cuts or for you child to be hit with a stick.

Neither, which is how it works in ds's school.

Come on. Surely you don't think it has to be either or.
Or are you just shit stirring?

I would’t want to get in an argument with the girl’s mother or grandmother, that’s for sure.

I honestly can't tell which is which...

It doesn't matter what it was in response to. As I have told my own daughter, whether you agree with the school dress code is irrelevant. She signed the student handbook and has agreed to abide by the rules it puts forth. The fact that the parents are arguing is ridiculous and teaching that girl nothing.

If you take issue with the dress code and think it should be changed, campaign for a change to the code. Don't just break it.

mountford the use of corporal punishment and the strictness or absence of dress codes in US schools is not some kind of trade off. There are schools with neither dress codes nor corporal punishment and schools with both. Discipline could be maintained in schools by sticking to rules that actually affect academic performance and by focusing on reinforcing positive behaviour rather than coming up with non-related requirements instead. The preponderance of research evidence suggests uniforms are not particularly effective at improving academic results (and neither is corporal punishment).

Hi, we're just letting you know that we've edited the title in this thread as we felt, "idiot mothers" wasn't really in the spirit of the site.

I did something similar during my last year at school and got put in isolation for the last few weeks.

It's was great, I worked from revision books in the peace and quiet and got 14 A-A*'s.

The truth of the matter is that top students will rarely get into trouble if they bend the rules a little. The same school mentioned in that article has A grade students who have grey dyed hair and piercings - the school chooses not to enforce them as presumably they could just up and leave and take their great grades to another school, but picks on the thickos like this girl.

No @thornyhousewife there is no possible way if you sought ways to make yourself more individual that you could possible have been such a high achiever lol.

Needless to say I was always changing my hair colour and even had some facial piercings but my school were brilliant so never got even an odd look. I was quite a high achiever though so they might have been happy enough to leave me to it due to that.

'Posh' Canadian School.

You can Google. Congratulations. What point were you trying to make?