Le regole della scuola sui piercing alle orecchie possono equivalere a una discriminazione indiretta, afferma WRC
https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2024/12/20/schools-rules-on-ear-piercings-may-amount-to-indirect-discrimination-wrc-says/
di PoppedCork
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School uniforms should be the same for boys and girls, including their policies on hair styles and piercings.
This could be a really interesting topic of debate, actually. Some of the rules around uniform are incredible out-dated
Uniform rules can vary wildly depending on the principal in question. The boy’s school in town had a principal years back who was death on lads having short hair. If it was longer than a 3 all round, you were a hippy in his eyes and were sent home until you visited the barbers.
Meanwhile at my school, a lad could have hair halfway down his back and there wasn’t a word about it. I get that uniforms are a part of discipline and that but once you go too far, all you do is generate animosity.
My mixed school was fairly progressive for the time and I didn’t really appreciate it. They’d no rules about hair, tan or makeup, earrings were fine for boys or girls too. Hijab also fine.
The only real rule was no facial piercings or scaffolds on the grounds of safety, and I think the hands-on subjects didn’t like false nails.
A relative got an eyebrow piercing before and the school made him put a plaster over it for the entire time he had it.
Other students who had hair that was too long were told to cut it.
I just never understood why Irish schools basically run like some kind of former prison camps. It was all uniforms and being shouted and told to shut up constantly in my era anyway. We didn’t have corporal punishment, as grew up after that era, but we certainly didn’t have a system that liked you to show any degree of creativity at all. Head down, learn by rote. Rules, rules and more rules.
I mean why were they trying to mould 19th century factory workers? Very few of us will ever work in that kind of environment. In reality the ability to present ideas will be what defines success for many of us, and a lot of us aren’t really being equipped for that kind of world.
My sense of school was that I learned that authority figures were power tripping morons —not to be trusted, who would back stab you and make up rules as they went along to trip you up.
I never felt one bit supported or in anyway encouraged – rather just sarcastically slapped down at every turn. It wasn’t until university that I actually began to enjoy learning and felt I fitted in.
The single worst bit of school I will never forget was when I had major surgery on my ear, which included a rather large incision running up into my scalp and I was absolutely not wanting to show it off. My head had been shaved, and I wore a beanie hat all the time. Teachers roared at me and even pulled it off my head because it wasn’t “part of the uniform” and I was so self conscious about the whole thing.
One of them even lectured me about how I was being ridiculous and it was something I had to get used to. This was from a woman who would probably not go outside the door wirh out full make up on, but because I’m a guy apparently I’m supposed to gave no sense of how I look – tough it out – get called names etc.
I actually stopped going to school for about 6 months as a result of it. Just took the rest of the year off until my hair grew back and worked from home.
The only rule that matters is that the right ear is the “gay” ear
I’ve heard it all now.
Have school staff nothing more important to be focusing on, like, say, education?
Let kids be wild and free with their style and dress like lunatics if they want, it’s literally the time in their lives when they’re figuring out all that stuff. Shoving them into uniforms and regulation hair cuts is just depressing, and doesn’t align with modern workplaces anyway, my office, and more over time, are full of various styles, from pink hair, to piercings, and tattoos.
I had long hair when I was in my teens.
Maddest thing ever was being told I wasn’t allowed tie it up in a pony tail.
The Christian Brothers obviously had little else to be worried about.
The earring thing is niche enough, but it would be nice to see a precedent set for schools not being able to have such an unnecessarily draconian ruleset around outdated dress codes.
Give over,not all gay people wear piercings.
ban hoops on Health and Safety grounds but I see no issue with studs