Teenage girl kicked out of school for dyeing her hair auburn

[LadyBarbossa]

Yes, you read that right. Not blue, not purple, not even green. She colored her hair auburn and the principle didn't like it.

http://shine.yahoo.com/parenting/uta...192700681.html

I have no words.

[bara]

Wont load for me at the moment, but auburn.

I wonder how many girls dye blonde and get sent home.

[HYHYBT]

So... even aside from the color in question, why should schools have rules about hair color in the first place? (Or, for that matter, any number of other rules they have that cross the line from minimal necessary for keeping order into meddling with personal business?)

[Andara Bledin]

I like the fact that she's been doing the dyeing since school started, but they didn't get a bug up their butts until now.

Also, she's an honor student. You'd think they'd have better things to do than persecute honor students for dying their brown hair auburn.

While I'm not a fan of auburn, myself, because it is sort of a wishy-washy not-quite-natural sort of hair color (mine is brown/blue/pink - the world knows that it's dyed ), but I don't really think anybody should be persecuting people because their hair might shine a bit purplish in certain lighting conditions.

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[MadMike]

I can't stand control freaks. And the scariest part of all is, these are the people who are educating our kids. I'm so glad I don't have any more to put through the school system.

[Greenday]

Her hair looked pretty natural to me. Certainly not a bizarre color that doesn't look right.

[Andara Bledin]

It's not a bizarre color in the least.

However, box-based auburn nearly-always has this vaguely purplish woody mahogany tinge to it that is absolutely not a natural hair color.

Article at The Inquisitor, with a much better shot of her hair in the light. Definitely not a natural hair color, but certainly not so far away from one that anybody gives a rat's ass but one uptight principal.

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[Rapscallion]

I wonder how many teachers are required to not use dye to hide grey in their hair?

Rapscallion

[Aethian]

I wonder how many teachers are required to not use dye to hide grey in their hair?

Rapscallion

You know I was thinking that myself but then I could see them trying to do the whole " they are older and this entitled" or the rules are for the students only.

[Andara Bledin]

Well, the rules are supposed to be about "unnatural" hair colors, and most of the grey-covering dye jobs I've seen would be hard to spot as dye jobs if you didn't already know they were greying.

Bosslady at work, for example, has such a basic dark brown, that unless her roots are showing, it's hard to tell it's not her regular color.

But I suspect there might be a teacher or two who has a dye color that doesn't look as natural in the light as it might under the classroom lights, and if so, then I would hope some of the students point out the glaring issue, there.

[eta]
Honestly, I'm glad that my school just didn't care. One of my friends had a tri-color mohawk the entire time I knew her and beyond the initial (oh, hey, she's got green and purple and orange hair) reaction, it becomes a completely non-issue. It's background noise by the third day.

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[Rapscallion]

Grey hair for them is natural. Colouring it is unnatural.

Rapscallion

[Andara Bledin]

True, but irrelevant.

The wording, as I understand it, is "a natural color," not "your natural color."

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[ozcatbug]

I've been dying my hair a very similar shade as the one in the article for a while. I have had many people wish they had hair just like my natural auburn colour. Truthfully, my hair is a mousy brown, I think. It's been about 10 years since it was my natural colour. But my mother, her 2 sisters and brother, and my own brother have varying shades of auburn hair (must be those good strong Scots genes), so on me the shade looks natural. Funny that before I got it done my mother insisted I wouldn't suit red hair, now she is forever saying to me "do you think you need to go for a touch up? Your hair looks so good that shade".

Like the girl in the article, when I first get it done it takes a couple of washes to settle, then it's good to go for a few months. I think that the fact this girl has been dying her hair this particular shade for quite a while and nothing has been said before would be an indication that the shade is a natural colour. If it was so out there something would have been said earlier.

[Jetfire]

My school way back when I was there, and even now, wouldn't bat an eye at it. Hell, her hair colour looks like its the same shade my mom's been dying her hair for decades, and mom's been teaching there just as long.

Mom's own opinion on the matter (and she would stand up in defense of the kids and has seniority enough to make it matter) would be to let them dye their hair whatever colours they want. As long as they aren't causing a problem in the class, she doesn't care if they have 'normal' hair styles, or mohawks or anything else.

[fireheart17]

I wouldn't care about whether the kids dye their hair or not, although since I am going to be teaching primary school (K-7, although my background is going to be more likely K-4 or K-5) I would be wondering why a child aged 9 or 10 is getting their hair dyed.

Down here for school sports days, kids would often bring in the cans of the coloured hair spray and go nuts. A number of schools have since stopped allowing students to bring those in for OHS reasons, so they do them outside of the school instead