Schools demanding control of hairstyles and piercing is always and will forever be absurd. You’re out of the place for the afternoon and not there at the weekends. They should fuck off trying to control how you look 100% of the time.
Abject_Chemist_7005 on
Fair play to the kid and his family for going the whole way with this. I know there needs to be standards in schools and rules etc but the school got themselves into a tangle over this. One ear stud is not allowed but two are. And it was for one gender and not another. That was crying out for a lawsuit.
andstep234 on
In this day and age they were literally inviting a lawsuit with such ridiculous rules.
Boy wears earring! So fucking what
Camogie player wears shorts! So fucking what
cian87 on
Good.
Teachers/principals that rely on draconian appearance rules to impose discipline should just retire now – they were outdated 30 years ago and law is finally catching up with sense.
Important-Sea-7596 on
gender-based discrimination and victimisation
LivingCorrect6159 on
Hero ❤️ if girls can wear studs why can’t lads?
Melting-Chimp on
I remember my school wouldn’t let fellas have piercings, or their hair dyed red, blue, pink or even bleached blonde. Yet girls could have their hair all colours of the rainbow, and as many piercings as they wanted
Imagine being the principal and having to phone the Department of Education to ask for another ten grand to keep the lights on, all because you disciplined a kid for wearing one ear piercing instead of two.
feedthebear on
Sorry but I don’t agree with this decision.
If he shows up in a skirt next time, does he get a big pay out too. The world is much more accommodating these days and that for the most part is a good thing. But stories like this are just parents and their son taking the absolute piss. And then being rewarded for it.
hesaidshesdead on
I grew my hair long when I was 13, by 14 it was long enough to tie into a ponytail, first day I turned up for school with my hair in a ponytail I was ORDERED to take it out.
Always seemed a bit of a weird power trip, it was tidier tied up.
LordyIHopeThereIsPie on
There should be no uniforms or stupid policies like this. So glad my kids are in schools that don’t waste time like this.
fenderbloke on
Happened in my school 20 years ago. One lad got told to cut his hair – the next day his barrister father was in the principals office showing him the gender based discrimination lawsuit he was filing that day. Never heard a thing about lads having long hair after that.
dickbuttscompanion on
I hope he spends every last cent on a big fuckoff diamond stud for it
Different-Class1771 on
Had an absolute weapon of a principal in the 90s that got off on the little power trips she had for sending people home over having their hair too long, too short, dyed the wrong colour, too much makeup, too many earrings, wrong coloured shoes, wrong coloured socks, skirts too short, trousers too tight etc..
She always went after the quiet ones too, usually the rockers / goths. The loud mouth skangers with their big hoopy earrings, sovereign rings and air max runners were never pulled up because she was afraid of them.
feedthebear on
The same whingers here who insist that a boy should be allowed to wear a skirt to school are the same people who’d be applauding a case against the school if that same boy got his head kicked in because of it.
Spare me.
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vandist on
Good, my youngest brother used to get STUPID hassle over dark cherry red doc martens. They would remove him from class to constantly ask.
stateofyou on
I was told to wipe the smile off my face by a nun.
Madhc on
I worked in a place a while back where the boss approached me and told me “male staff aren’t allowed to wear earrings”.
I said “okay”, and off she went. I continued wearing my earrings and never heard about it again.
I’d like to believe this kinda thing is gradually phasing itself out.
nilghias on
While the case some seems ridiculous, I suppose the notion behind it. Schools are far too concerned about appearance, it drove me mad in school that we were supposed to were black socks and would get in genuine trouble for wearing white ones. Whatever if they want to keep the uniforms, but nothing else about appearance should be dictated. It does nothing except make people hate school and waste everyone’s time.
stateofyou on
The photo is misleading, the stud is in the “upper cartilage” of his ear. The school dropped the ball when they wrote the school rules though. A small stud is allowed but they didn’t specifically mention the earlobe
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Schools demanding control of hairstyles and piercing is always and will forever be absurd. You’re out of the place for the afternoon and not there at the weekends. They should fuck off trying to control how you look 100% of the time.
Fair play to the kid and his family for going the whole way with this. I know there needs to be standards in schools and rules etc but the school got themselves into a tangle over this. One ear stud is not allowed but two are. And it was for one gender and not another. That was crying out for a lawsuit.
In this day and age they were literally inviting a lawsuit with such ridiculous rules.
Boy wears earring! So fucking what
Camogie player wears shorts! So fucking what
Good.
Teachers/principals that rely on draconian appearance rules to impose discipline should just retire now – they were outdated 30 years ago and law is finally catching up with sense.
gender-based discrimination and victimisation
Hero ❤️ if girls can wear studs why can’t lads?
I remember my school wouldn’t let fellas have piercings, or their hair dyed red, blue, pink or even bleached blonde. Yet girls could have their hair all colours of the rainbow, and as many piercings as they wanted
https://preview.redd.it/vxpmjomcce3f1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9c03911bdda8486d548bab4a404335dd40aaa8a1
Imagine being the principal and having to phone the Department of Education to ask for another ten grand to keep the lights on, all because you disciplined a kid for wearing one ear piercing instead of two.
Sorry but I don’t agree with this decision.
If he shows up in a skirt next time, does he get a big pay out too. The world is much more accommodating these days and that for the most part is a good thing. But stories like this are just parents and their son taking the absolute piss. And then being rewarded for it.
I grew my hair long when I was 13, by 14 it was long enough to tie into a ponytail, first day I turned up for school with my hair in a ponytail I was ORDERED to take it out.
Always seemed a bit of a weird power trip, it was tidier tied up.
There should be no uniforms or stupid policies like this. So glad my kids are in schools that don’t waste time like this.
Happened in my school 20 years ago. One lad got told to cut his hair – the next day his barrister father was in the principals office showing him the gender based discrimination lawsuit he was filing that day. Never heard a thing about lads having long hair after that.
I hope he spends every last cent on a big fuckoff diamond stud for it
Had an absolute weapon of a principal in the 90s that got off on the little power trips she had for sending people home over having their hair too long, too short, dyed the wrong colour, too much makeup, too many earrings, wrong coloured shoes, wrong coloured socks, skirts too short, trousers too tight etc..
She always went after the quiet ones too, usually the rockers / goths. The loud mouth skangers with their big hoopy earrings, sovereign rings and air max runners were never pulled up because she was afraid of them.
The same whingers here who insist that a boy should be allowed to wear a skirt to school are the same people who’d be applauding a case against the school if that same boy got his head kicked in because of it.
Spare me.
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Good, my youngest brother used to get STUPID hassle over dark cherry red doc martens. They would remove him from class to constantly ask.
I was told to wipe the smile off my face by a nun.
I worked in a place a while back where the boss approached me and told me “male staff aren’t allowed to wear earrings”.
I said “okay”, and off she went. I continued wearing my earrings and never heard about it again.
I’d like to believe this kinda thing is gradually phasing itself out.
While the case some seems ridiculous, I suppose the notion behind it. Schools are far too concerned about appearance, it drove me mad in school that we were supposed to were black socks and would get in genuine trouble for wearing white ones. Whatever if they want to keep the uniforms, but nothing else about appearance should be dictated. It does nothing except make people hate school and waste everyone’s time.
The photo is misleading, the stud is in the “upper cartilage” of his ear. The school dropped the ball when they wrote the school rules though. A small stud is allowed but they didn’t specifically mention the earlobe