Birmingham Pupil Suspended 'for Peaky Blinders Haircut'

[mikey4444]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-36269041

Not sure what is wrong here. This little lad looks very neat and tidy to me !

I had hair only marginally longer when I was a lad in the 50's.

[andy-hughes]

Togo - //Haha accused of knee jerk reaction by a.h., who spends his time doing an impression of a space hopper in mine field. //

I am baffled by your metaphor, but don't bother explaining it - I am unlikely to agree with you.

[naomi24]

In light of the decision to exclude this little boy shortly before he was due to sit exams, I would suggest that OFSTED’s assessment of the school didn’t involve its opinion of uniform policy.

[andy-hughes]

Thank you piggy.

The only things I do take personally are uncalled for personal attacks.

In debate, I am passionate, but I remain detached insofar as I enjoy the cut and thrust of a good debate.

Happily, this continues on this thread, un-derailed by the usual mischief makers whose absence is noted and appreciated.

[andy-hughes]

Naomi - //In light of the decision to exclude this little boy shortly before he was due to sit exams, I would suggest that OFSTED’s assessment of the school didn’t involve its opinion of uniform policy. //

I haven't checked, so forgive me if I am concluding incorrectly, but the last OFSTED report will have been several years ago - and not connected with this incident - ?

[naomi24]

And neither, I would suggest, on any other incident involving uniform.

[andy-hughes]

Probably not - although OFSTED's remit in assessment is very wide.

To return to the point made earlier by others including myself, I think there is more to this instance than has been revealed.

The school will be unlikely to comment, so the press have free reign to spout what they like.

I recall a time when my uncle was a head teacher - before the days of standard welfare payments for deprived families. A child in his school was going without school lunches because his parents could not afford them, so for several months my uncle paid for them out of his own pocket. As an attempt to get the local authority to support the family properly, he advised them that he was withdrawing his own payments. The local media pilloried him for 'letting a child starve' in his own school, and he was constrained from explaining the full facts of the story.

As always, never let the facts get in the way ...

[tamborine]

80% of my barbering is this style, with same for boys. My instructions come from payees only & not schools, unless theyre paying.

[tamborine]

Clients choose this cut as it extends their next visit......I see it as a 'cheapskate' cut - lol

[Berniecuddles2]

beggars belief should put on a niqab wouldnt matter then what his hair looked like!

[fiction-factory]

>My youngest daughter is a head teacher, which makes my opinion valid.

Is she the head at this school then or at one with an identical policy and set of circumstances?

Yes, we nearly all agree that it doesn't look to be a problem to us from what we can see but we can't see all of it and don't know the local issues or indeed the views of the other parents, the vast majority of whom presumably do abide by the school policy

[tamborine]

Bernie, I get "no cut beard, aloo akbar"....flashing my scissors soon shuts em up.

[retrocop]

What would the school do if the lad grew his
Hair down to his waist and parent declared him a transgender? Nix I suspect.

Double standards !! PC rules for leftie teachers.

[Mamyalynne]

Interesting, customers who praise the potato Tambo?

[andy-hughes]

PiedPiper - //Nothing wrong with haircut, school acting stupidly. //

That is not the point at issue.

No-one is contesting the appeal - or not - of the haircut, it is the contravention of the school's uniform policy that has created the incident about which we are debating.

// My youngest daughter is a head teacher, which makes my opinion valid. //

Your opinion is valid simply by being your opinion.

Your daughter's experience of maybe similar circumstances may provide some additional background to the discussion, but I believe that any and all opinions are valuable.

[andy-hughes]

retrocop - //What would the school do if the lad grew his
Hair down to his waist and parent declared him a transgender? Nix I suspect. //

A hypothetical situation doesn't really add to the debate does it?

//Double standards !! PC rules for leftie teachers. //

I don't think there is any evidence of double standard here - or that the rules are PC, or (a full house!) that there is any evidence of the voting preferences of the staff.

Aside from which, the school uniform policy is dictated by the governing body, and implemented on their behalf by the head teacher. The teaching staff - left / right / up / down - have no influence in this area.

[tamborine]

Mamya, a spud is more worthy of praise ;)

[HansUrbancka]

The school's decisions must be accepted in the same way as we have to accept our Ed's.

Hans.