All right. 8) I really want to know what you guys think. Curiosity more than anything else.

This isn't a very serious discussion. So if people get offended and snappy, I'm going to snap their underwear. xD

Scenario: Monday morning you waltz into your (public) school proudly showing off your brand-new purple, punked-out hair. The principal says your fashion statement violates the school's grooming policy and tells you to dye it back or face in-school suspension until it grows out. Can your principal dictate what you do with your own body?

None of the above. xD But "No" is the closest to "Double ya tee eff abo-flipping-lutely not!!" xDDD I mean, revealing clothes are one thing, but not your hair, and not piercings or tattoos (Even though I find both disgusting. xD).

No effing way! That's a complete joke. No one has the right to tell you how to dress, what color your hair /has/ to be. I mean, urgh! What happened to individuality! Why is it that you're not allowed to stand out now a days in school? I said right on to the people who fight back, because what that principal was saying is an utter joke.

Yeah, he is. If it's in the school code, he's allowed to do that.

Trust me, I found out six times this year.

As Ice Queen said, if it's in the code. But if you can prove that it isn't and you have every right to have purple hair... then no. OR, you can pull a Hatsuharu (from Fruits' Basket) and drag him/her into the bathroom and prove that the hair color is real. Of course, that includes dying pubes purple too. O.O

I'm afraid so. It's the same way how you can be fired from your job for having a tounge ring. It's because radical hair styles/peircings/what ever might prove to be a distraction from learning so they can't allow them.

I don't care if it /says/ that he can do that, I still think that he can't. It's not like it's offending anyone personally. If it were me, I'd refuse to both, because what that principal is saying is complete crap. I don't think that anywhere in school whatever does it say that your hair must be of a natural color. I mean, it's possible, just not really probable. Just my opinon, though. ^^;

Well, yeah, I mean... Technically, by law and everything, he /can/... But what I meant was he SHOULDN'T be able to. xD

EXACTLY! He /can/, perhaps, but that doesn't mean that he has the effing /right/ to.

even if ti is not in the dress code specificly he can... the school has any right to place a student under penalty for any form of fashion statement if they feel it will cause a disturbance in class... purple hair would cause students to do double takes... yadda yadda yadda... he can...

*scampers away behind a tree in case your angry at him*

Hmmm...That's weird... I know in some private schools they don't allow hair dying, but in public school it shouldn't matter. Especially if its legal X3

Well... eh. I suppose he can, because of his authority in school and how that gives him the right to if he feels it could cause a disturbance... So yes, he can. Of course, I don't come anywhere close to supporting the idea that school has the right to stifle what you can do to your own body. Screw that. x3

In my school, though, if you dye it when school isn't in session and it's still in when you're back, they can't do anything about it. Like if you dyed it over summer, and I think even over Christmas break, they couldn't really do anything about it.

My principle no longer enforces or grooming policy when it comes to funky hair colors (thank goodness, I dyed my hair orange I could not have handled ISS). A kid at my school sued our principle and national school board for Freedom of Expression rights being violated or what not. He won a settlement as well. o.o I thought it was awesome. He had dyed his mohawk rainbow colors for Gay Pride. :D

With jobs, if it's working in the public, they can refuse to hire me based on my lip ring.

Which, I think is prejudiced. I'm not just a lip ring, nor fuschia hair.

It doesn't affect how I work. xx;


Meh... got into a big debate on that. Oo;

For me -- depends. Some school handbooks have rules in them about dying your hair and stuff, so... yeah. If you've been given warning ahead of time that it isn't allowed, then hey, disregard the rules at your own risk ^~ If not, though, then I don't see where the principal has the right.

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He can, but he shouldn't. It's in the rules, but the rules are wrong and should be broken. He has no right whatsoever to choose how people should look.

I guess there's a certain limit where schools should interfere if the clothing truly is distracting... It's funny. My school has a dress code. When you put your hands down at your sides, your skirt should atleast reach the tips of your middle fingers (or your shorts, for that matter) and any shirt revealing bra straps are an excessive ammount of shoulders are permitted... However, they don't care if your breasts are practically hanging on the table. They actually don't even enforce the whole shoulder and bra thing anymore. However, what ticks me off is my friend can't wear a single one of her My Chemical Romance shirts because they depict blood, skulls, knives, or guns. They consider this "promoting violence in school" whereas she and most of the student body that supports her only sees it as a promotion of the band. As for funky hair colors and piercings, they're cool with as much metal as you can stick through your face and body... as long as it doesn't have spikes on it. (They have this big problem with spiked jewelery, bracelets, collars, ect) o.O So I really don't know. I say the principal has some power to regulate if your ass is hanging out of your skirt and your breasts are practically sitting on the table because that IS a sexual distraction... Or of course, wearing a Nazi symbol or something completely blasphemous. Otherwise though, it's not that big of a deal. Liberal arts colleges seem to set a decent example on where to draw the line with what could be considered profanity in clothing, hair, jewelery, ect.