http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-31035847

So many issues... You could argue he's got a more sensible haircut now! I'm sick of these schools and workplaces that seek to create drones and crush individuality. Surely to fcuk that's the antithesis of education. And how messed up is isolation just for looking 'different'? Boils my piss.

Yep, idiot school run by an idiot...

Since when did schools become the fashion police? It's not as if very short hair is particularity outrageous. If he'd turned up with a bright red punk cut with nose and ear rings chained together, then you could see their point.

Somebody ought to introduce common sense 101 to the head teacher of that school.

I think the rule is very silly and the punishment more so. However, in almost every school in the land, it's the school governors that set the rules and the Head who enforces them. I agree with the Head's decision. He did his job - enforcing the school's rules.

Parents can't agree to a set of rules and sanctions, allow the child to break the rules and then complain when the sanction they were warned about actually happens. That's what toddlers do for pity's sake.

If the parents disagreed with the rule, they should have written to the school governors and perhaps organised a petition to get the rule changed. Or perhaps they could have had the common courtesy to write to the Head first to see what he would do.

I despise of this modern notion that children are there to make the school look good.
They're there to be educated.

Which stems out of the introduction of league tables. As soon as they came in, the pupils themselves stopped being the focus of education and became the means towards which the focus (position in the tables) would be achieved. As such they became not a thing to be protected and served, but a variable to be controlled. Once that change in thinking got rooted, uniformity becomes a requirement.

School uniforms being such a recent invention.

No - they're there to be schooled and to make the parents look good.

Education died a long time ago.

Uniforms have nothing to do with making the school look good.

just the system making another brick in the wall ...

The school wil, have a dress code, which will be decided NOT by the head, but by the governors and parent groups (PTA, Friends of the School, etc). This will include such diverse elements as uniform, trouser length, skirt length, and acceptable hair styles for both sexes. Parents will agree to these when their kid joins the school.

I expect that more extreme haircuts, like shaved heads or very close crew cuts will not be on the approved list. The whole "supporting cancer sufferers" thing is a red herring here - no doubt an interesting press friendly excuse to make the school look silly.

The thing is that unless the child has a medical (or, no doubt, some spurious religious) reason for the hairdo, then the head and teaching staff HAVE to enforce the dress code. If they don't then all kinds of extreme haircuts will turn up - from the Essex Line to corn rows.