Pink hair gets girl suspended

I think if she had been warned she shouldn't have done it. The school needs to have rules and guidelines the EVERYONE follows. The school was right. At 12 she seriously needs to understand what rules are or she is headed for trouble!

To me I dont see any reason why a person can do whatever they want with there hair. The color of a persons care does not mean that they can not learn any better with there hair being brown, black, red or what ever color they want. I dont understand the schools rules on this who cares what color your hair is.

I think she should be able to dye her hair whatever color she wants to, as long as her parents approve..she is still 12 you know. I'm not a big fan of school policies that don't allow for people to freely express themselves in a non violent and non offensive way. She is harming no one by dying her hair nor is it offensive. Alot of schools say "its a distraction"..i say to these schools, people who are distracted by a COLOR need to seek attention.

I personally don't see what the big deal is about her pink hair. My main concern is about the kids that come to school wearing skimpy clothing or those that come wearing clothing that point to gang activity or the like. That really has no room in a school setting. However pink hair? What's the issue? It's not vulgar, it's not revealing, it's just hair. This just proves my theory that schools are moving more towards a parental role when parents are the ones that parent. Not school systems. The schools cannot tell parents how to raise their children and that means how they can or cannot dye their hair.

Well I think its cute. BUT, well, it is in their handbook. I think although the kid has reasons to do so. If that is what the school officials think then she have to listen to them. They are superior. And btw, I would get distracted too if I see someone with pink hair, I would look at it until I get used to it.

In my opinion it should not matter what color your hair is or if you dye it another color. It shouldnt matter what clothes you wear or anything like that. You are not stopping anyone else from learning or stopping yourself from learning. unless you are doing something that is going to interrupt the learning of others or yourself then soemthing should be done about it otherwise then leave them alone and let them learn and get the best education they can.

well, i think the school is doing the right thing... when i was 12 years old, my school wouldn't even allowed me to wear a ribbon or headband on my hair except black or blue colour... if i wear other colour, then i will get into trouble with the discipline master of the school... so i agree completely with what the school is doing... especially she had been told before and she still do it... that just shows that she is being defiant and had to be punished... take care and have a nice day...

i dont agree at all. what does her hair color have to do with her school work? seriously. does it distract other kids,. i doubt it. my school was the same way in junior high, and i didnt care either i dyed my hair brite red. its who i wanted to be. what if she dyed it blonde or black. would they care

I wonder if she had dyed just a small portion of her hair on each side if she would have been suspended. like a small strip on each side of her head. Personally what does hair color have to do with learning?

Technically the girl's right. They didn't specify WHAT colors exactly, they'd define as "distracting". I suppose if they did they'd say "out of the normal colors of blond, red, black, and brown"...suggesting that any other color's not "normal" would contradict their former encouragement of individualism (I haven't read the article linked, I watched an interview with the girl via video earlier this week so that's what all I'm saying is based off of). Hair color only "distracts" children from learning when the school and other people make a big deal out of it...and since when has learning supposed to follow the trends of the times? Knowledge doesn't care what things are like socially, and saying "something's against the rules"...suggests something's potentially bad and that could instill closed-mindedness in the future... Again, it's not the school's job to say what a kid can do with their bodies. They can say what a kid can do ON their property, that's perfectly fine...but the rest should be up to parents. Anyway, according to the interview I saw, the girl wasn't told flat outright not to dye her hair. She went to school for awhile with and was fine, a teacher mentioned it...THEN trouble started and they told her that she couldn't come back until she changed her hair color from pink.

Schools have their own rules and regulations that pupils or students SHOULD follow. That's discipline. She was warned and did not follow, then for me the school was right. When you are in a school,you must know and understand the rules and regulations given to you upon enrollment and the parents should be aware of that, too. Pink hair is not appropriate in a school environment, specially that she's only a grader. Other kids might follow if a school would tolerate such.

there are school policies that is set in order to make a good impression. if she is already warned and she did not listen it is the schools right to take action. in the first place if she wants to have a pink hair, why did she return to that school which she knows that does not allow her hair being dye in pink...if the color is not striking like pink it would be okey...it is like she is a punk and the school wants to have decent children. i have nothing against the school nor the pink hair girl...but i understand the school and this is just my opinion.

Is the colour of her hair really going to stop her and others learning htere lessons? I bet no one would have given a second glance if she dyed it blond or black

ithink we should be able to dye our hair watever color we want . but im my school u cudnt do that either we have a hair color policy. its kinda stupid really .schools are gettin stricker and stricker and its realy not fair. they say that its disrubtive in class. isnt highschool suppose to prepair u for the real world u dnt get to make ppl change there hair color in the real world

Well, my PERSONAL belief is that it's her decision to dye her hair pink and nobody should have anything to say about it (other than her parents because she is 12) but many schools have dress codes and certain guidelines that students are expected to adhere to. I don't think they should be suspended over it either, because that means the school is denying her a right to learn there simply because she dyed her hair. It's hard to answer this because there are two different issues at stake. One is that the school probably has its own set of rules and the student broke them. The other is that should the school really have a right to suspend students or discipline them over dyeing their hair? Based on the rules the school has in place, I guess the school had a right. I simply don't agree though that it's right for the school to have rules like this.

I think she got what she deserved. She was warned already yet she just had to rebel against the school. I really think this is her fault. As a student, she is under the jurisdiction of the school. If she doensn't like their rules thens he has to change her school. If students aren't punished for disobeying school rules, then there won't be any order at all.

Hey hey It is such a silly thing to suspend someone for that . I dont see what the big deal is . I dont see how that would cause a distraction . Now a days everyone dyes the hair . I suppose it depends on the school too . My teen cousin is always dying her hair funky colors and noone minds .

Every school has their own rules and regulations. It is true that hair colour (or rather the dyeing of hair) has no bearings on her learning curve. However, students are in school to study, as such, they should learn also on how to follow their school's rules and regulations. This is actually personal responsibility. If the student is unable to follow rules & regulations at an early stage, and the school were not to take any actions against her with regards to this simple matter, how would the girl Amelia Robbins learn about responsibility when she grows up and step into the working force? Is she going to flaunt all the office's rules and regulations as well? I remember when I was in secondary school, my school also has such a rule against dyed hair. Nevertheless, there are people who rebelled against these rule, and dyed their hair. My school was considered as lenient in the sense that they grabbed those students who had dyed their hair and dyed their hair back to their normal colour (black). Nevertheless, it was the humiliation of dyeing their hair infront of the whole school, as well as the unnatural black that the black dye had been dyed into their hair that drove these students to obey the rules as a result. Mountain Grove Middle School had also taken a lenient approach to this matter with regards to the student as they had proceeded with a verbal warning before taking official actions against the girl. As the school had already issued out a warning to the girl, and the girl chose not to listen, that is already a direct defiance to the school authorities. Is she going to carry on with this attitude of defiance in her later adult working life? One would wonder. Hence, I feel that the school was right in their decision to suspend the girl as they had given prior warning to the girl and the girl had decided instead to rebel and not listen to the warning that was given. That was wrong of her. As a school authority, I might not had suspend her based on her hair colour, but suspension as a result of the defiance that she had shown (if you get my drift). No doubt people will argue that hair colour is not going to affect her studies or whatsoever, but a defiance to the authorities, if not taken into corrective actions will lead to bigger problems when she grows up. That is my stand in this matter.

good day,here in our country coloring of hair is prohibited by the school officials and also schools that run by nuns and priest.It is the discipline of the school especially for the graders.its just a desciplinary action given by the school so that pipils will follow the Rules And Regulations of the school.If im on your shoes i will transfer my grader to another school that don't have this kind of rules and regulation.

I think that is really messed up. it is like being suspended for wearing your countries flag.