Poll: The school took my facial hair

[Smooth Operator]

Ya sadly they do have a right to dictate your looks (dress code and such), but you should always consult the rulebook on this, it smells alot like a personal preference enforced by someone with power.
But it is a private school and those can dictate pretty much anything, be it by the rules or not.
There is always the option for payback, but you should never resort to that, don't even think of carving up someones tires, and by no means should you slice up all 4 tires so the person is stuck there, never ever do that!

 

[TheRundownRabbit]

Huh,"The school took my facial hair"? That would make a catchy song, time to get writin

 

[Thedayrecker]

Public schools shouldn't really tell you what to wear, or what you can look like (unless it's "distracting"). That being said, you are in a private school, and technically they do have the right to enforce a stricter dress code...

 

[SimuLord]

Telling them to fuck off will get your ass punted into public school, which if what I've read in the press is to be believed is barely better in the UK than in the US. And it's awful in the US.

You're pretty much right buggered on this one.

Though personally if someone told me to shave off my +1 Goatee of Manliness I'd tell them to shove a C4 dildo up their ass then press the button to detonate it.

 

[DSQ]

Since you don't get payed to be there you can have as much hair on your face as you want. Thats what i think. But you are at a private school....

 

[Folio]

Your 'Pride and Joy' can be shaved. But it won't be on your face.

I wonder what the arguments are for shaving facial hair. Maybe they wanted to see a pattern here or something.

 

[Casimir_Effect]

Owner of school has the power, misguided or not. It's only a beard though, you can regrow it later.

 

[Pegghead]

Well if there were no rules against it then they're not within their rights to do that.

My school on the other hand, there's this old, foreign, cranky-ass barber down the road from my school. They say (teachers) that if you come to school with long hair and/or a beard after getting warned to cut it (long being beyond the collar, oh and regular hair colour only) they drag you down there and pay for a complete cut. I can't really complain because hey, it's the rule, and I doubt the school's reputation would be all that great (it's not an upper-class private school but it is a Catholic all-boys high school so let that say what it will) if kids were walking around with purple mullets and moustaches that could make Major Swift weep bitterly.

 

[Tsaba]

well, if there isn't a dress code then they have no right.

 

[zehydra]

It's because you live at a private school. They would never be allowed to do that at a public school, lol.

They have the right, in a sense, because you (your parents) paid to go there.

The problem of course, is that it was your parents, that decided for you, so your rights were in this case stripped from you.

 

[Owyn_Merrilin]

right here it is, my beard and moustache

One teacher started calling me "Zoro" and another said it looked "demonic". I liked both these comments

Don't take this the wrong way, but good lord, that's the beard they wanted you to shave? That's about as respectable as a highschool beard can get -- it's not full on viking, but it's not patchy either. It could stand to be trimmed a bit more evenly, but that's beside the point. When I was 16, I had shoulder length hair and a beard that, depending on how recently it had been trimmed, bordered on Amish. For that matter, I still do -- the hair is just longer, and the beard is better maintained. With this being a private school, you're still SOL, but it's a pathetic move on their part.

lets think about this.

Have any of our last 10 presidents had facial hair?
Do most CEO shave?

My point is that in high level businesses , lawyer, doctor Astronaut, etc etc these people do not have facial hair.. look at the guy working at 711, engines, teachers, construction workers these people often but not always have facial hair

just trying to point out what society overall and not all the time thinks and feels about facial hair.

Schools are there to teach you not only subject matter but life lessons.

and its a well know fact, if you want a high tier job you most likely will have to shave your facial hair. Until you get well known and build respect and credibility then you can do whatever you want..

so stop complaining and shave your beard...ie or peach fuzz

I'd just like to point out, you put teachers in with construction workers and 7/11 owners. No bueno, man. Teaching may be low paying and relatively low status, but it's one of the most respected professions, whether that respect is borne out in people's actions or not. [sub]although, as a future teacher, there's a good chance that I will never have to shave my beard...[/sub]

For that matter, by "engines" did you mean "engineers?" Because if so, we're talking really high paying jobs, with a fairly high level of status and a ridiculous amount of education involved. Further, while I don't know of any CEOs that have beards, Bill Richardson has had one at various points, and he made a pretty good bid for the democratic presidential nomination back in 2008. If anything, the lack of facial hair in the higher paying jobs is the result of the people in charge of those things being old farts who were shocked the last time people grew their hair out, not a result of society being overwhelmingly anti-beard. It'll be interesting to see how fashion goes once the generation that frequents these forums takes over.

 

[oppp7]

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Just say it's part of your religion. Doesn't the Koran or whatever say you have to grow a beard?

 

[Shockolate]

Reminds me of a story where some kid around age 6 or something was suspended from school for not cutting his hair.

Not much else I can say.

 

[Sir-jackington]

understand they may have rules but stupid rules

 

[Brightzide]

Tell them to fuck off, my school tried to make people who wore these boots colour in the white bits so they were all black:

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A lot of kids did and as a result had fucked up marker pen shoes, my brother and some other people decided not to, and nothing even happened. The teacher would shout at them, but that's all they did. Every time they'd pass the pupil they'd just say "colour in your shoes" and that'd be it. The same thing happened when someone in my form grew an afro, and again when someone shaved his head to a 1, and again when people started wearing black jeans instead of pants. It even happened to me when I refused to have a shower after PE because I spent the entire lesson sitting on the grass with some mates (Cricket is possibly the worst sport ever), and the teacher threatened to throw me out the school if I didn't shower, I just told him he was a pedo. I don't know if your school is like that, but everything in my school was just a front.

There was also a Muslim kid in my school who had a full beard in year 7. I still don't know how that was possible, it was a beautiful fucking beard, and I know people 25 years old who still can't achieve a beard like that. It's funny too, because they told white people off for growing beards, but not Muslims. Damn racists!

EDIT: Say you're Jewish and your God wants moar beard?

Dude! We had the same bloody problem, but then again. I went Trinity high school, and our head was a dick. Do this! Do that! Jump! *how high?* blah blah. Was ridiculous. I wasnt ruining my brand new Timmy's with marker pens, they can feck right off.

Oh, and in general, they have no right telling you to shave. what's next? inspecting your ball-fro to make sure it's in check and not too appealing to the opposite sex? Bah! Humbug!

 

[JUMBO PALACE]

If there was nothing in the rules against it then no. You shouldn't have even shaved it.

 

[Double A]

right, this might take a while so pull up a chair. while back, I decided to try and grow a soul patch like Jack black; purely on a whim. later I decided to grow a moustache as well. they weren't terrible and they werent bum fluff, some of the teachers genuinly said it suited me.
Now, skip along a few months till after the summer holidays prior to my final year at the school and its stepped up to a full beard and moustache, not too far away from a goatee. I was genuinly proud of it and people liked it (only a few didnt like it) and one of my friends almost worshipped the damn thing.
now a few days or a week into my first term and the my form teacher drops the bomb "You have to shave it". Apparently the schools owner (Private school) had talked with the head mistress and had decided that i had to shave off my pride and joy.

Now I might be regrowing my facial hair for a charity event and I want to know what the people of the internet think: Is the school fair in making me shave?

heres a few points to consider
- I kept it neat; I even had a comb for it
- There was nothing in the school rules against it
- the school's motto is: "Where the individule counts"
- Even the head mistress said she liked it

If the head mistress likes it, take it up with her. She should have the absolute final say in everything, and if she likes it she probably won't make you shave it.

 

[interspark]

they really shouldn't get away with that! you should review the school rules carefully, cos i dought it says anything on Beard Restrictions! (although if it does, you aught to shave it. their school their rules unfortunately)

 

[RobCoxxy]

To quote the Prodigy:

"Fuck 'em / and their law"

 

[interspark]

There was also a Muslim kid in my school who had a full beard in year 7. I still don't know how that was possible, it was a beautiful fucking beard, and I know people 25 years old who still can't achieve a beard like that. It's funny too, because they told white people off for growing beards, but not Muslims. Damn racists!

no, i think racism would be making the kid shave, cos (quite aside from it being a medical marvel) making him shave would be forcing him to defy his religion, which is ilegal, isn't it... disney?