All Long Hair Students Expelled From Class
Girl students with hairstyles that headteachers believed were too long, were expelled from class at a middle school in Guangzhou.
These students had to go and have their hair cut during school time in order to get back to class.
A female student told the paper she was having breakfast when the teacher in charge of her grade saw her and said, “Is there fireworks on your head? It’s so ugly!”
In total, more than a hundred girls were told to leave school and shorten their hair that day.
“I hate hearing headteachers say short hair looks active and is good for studies,” a girl said. In her point of view, a simple pigtail wouldn’t take a long time to do up.
Some students doubted why their teachers kept long and wavy hair since they employed such strict rules on students.
A teacher at the headmaster’s office told the paper on the phone that “every school has its own regulations.”
Authorities at local education bureau said they had no specific rule on length of students’ hair, and “the ‘Daily Behavior Norms for Middle School Students’ is there for them to follow.”
By Sun Tzu on 01-03-2007
Comment by Taj
August 25th, 2007 at 4:23 pm
This is not understood that why should sutdents have to make their hair shorter. Unlike EU contries. This is kind of punishment towards students. Unfair system and should be ignored by students. I am very for them who cannot follow any fashionas.
Comment by Heather
August 30th, 2007 at 8:30 pm
That is so unfair. Short hair looks ‘active’??? Clearly, those teachers knows nothing about fashion.
Comment by Jenn
November 27th, 2007 at 10:36 am
sounds like jealous ass women teachers to me. Theirs no reason to keep them short, if they keep theirs long and wavy it’s even more noticable it’s out of jealousy. Wow in communism if teachers are jealous of something you have their screwed.
Comment by Kio
January 31st, 2008 at 9:32 am
My Ra…. This sucks! I wanna go to japan one day to study abroad, but if I go.. I’ll have to cut my hair…. I already cut it ones, and dyed it Blue,Red,Green,Pink, Purple, Blonde,Orange, Black, and Lime. (Yes, wierd) But It sucks! I don’t wanna have my hair short again. Its growing! T^T
Comment by Tedius Zanarukando
May 13th, 2008 at 9:12 pm
I abhor short hair on women. I abhor the practice of women fashioning themselves after men or forcing them to do so. That includes short hair for women as well as women in trousers. I am against forcing short hairstyle on female students, clients, or employees, and I am also against forcing them to wear trousers. Long hair is the only way to go for females. Super long hair is very popular in China. I am growing tired of destruction and persecution of femininity.
Comment by Jen
September 4th, 2008 at 10:01 am
I like short hair why not
Comment by O'Neil
September 5th, 2008 at 9:06 pm
Too bad the parents can’t sue the pants off the school and have the head teaches fired for their actions like they can in most other countries.
Calling a kid ugly like that will get you put on suspension even fired in the US and probably Japan as well.
As for looking active I once had a japanese friend who’s hair was past her butt and she was one of the most active people I knew.
She reminded me of Konata except she wasn’t a huge otaku.
They likely just want everyone to look the same.
If you ask me it would be boring if everyone looked that same.
Comment by Jenn
September 8th, 2008 at 10:25 am
My two daughters used waist length hair until I had my daughters waist length cut very short like a boy that school should do
Comment by Hay
September 21st, 2008 at 8:51 pm
It’s sad that human beings are forced to change their appearance for the vanities of another. Those girls have every right to have any length of hair that they want– from shaved bald to ankle-length or longer!
Any educated person knows that hair length and/or style has nothing to do with how well “studies” go. These teachers must not be very educated themselves.
Formerly I had waist-length hair, now it’s a short mohawk. I’ve had every color and style possible…and I always got top grades in school regardless of style and length! I’m a writer, for the gods’sake. Every person on the planet has a 100% right to live as they please without the views of anyone else being pushed onto them– and that includes hair.
Comment by Jen
October 7th, 2008 at 6:18 am
I forced my daughters to cut their waist length hair very short like a boy
Comment by QueenBee
June 24th, 2009 at 7:56 pm
it doesn't look active… it looks lesbian! Those teachers are just hypocrites if they are proud of their long wavy hair but think that younger generations should just look like drones.
I guess life sucks in Asia until you're an adult.
Comment by Jenn
June 29th, 2009 at 9:39 pm
I love very short haircuts for my daughters
Comment by The
July 23rd, 2009 at 8:00 am
I abhor men who have such outdated, borderline misogynistic views. I'll cut my hair short and wear trousers if I damn well please, thank you very much. (Besides which, there are some things for which skirts just won't do. Except you're probably the sort of bastard who thinks that if a woman can't wear a skirt when she does it, then she shouldn't do it and just get back in the kitchen where she belongs.)
Comment by Ela
July 23rd, 2009 at 8:00 am
Homophobic bitch.
Comment by Melanie
August 9th, 2009 at 4:53 am
I hate sexist people >.< I can do whatever I want to do. Women have the same potential as men, OK?!?!
Comment by Mrs. Brown
August 16th, 2009 at 11:38 pm
You all need grammar lessons. OMG
Comment by Jenn
August 17th, 2009 at 8:22 pm
I love short haircuts for my daughters
Comment by Casey Marion
September 3rd, 2009 at 3:32 pm
umm, in S. Korea, most middle and high schools require both boys and girls to maintain a short hairstyle. For boys, it may be a crew cut and for girls, it's usually shoulder length hair.
Girls are also not permitted to wear make-up or jewelry.
To westerners, it seems strange, but for the koreans, they feel being fashionable, while in HS will detract from the education of the students. They will focus too much on their appearance,etc.
This is the main reason they wear uniforms.
Also, HSs are generally segregated by sex to keep those raging teen hormones at bay.
Is it wrong? who knows. is it for us to decide? I kinda don't think so….
Comment by jack mehof
September 30th, 2009 at 1:59 pm
no they don't, lol
Comment by JILL MEHOFF
September 30th, 2009 at 2:04 pm
Who are the most recognizable lesbians? Butch lesbians. How is their hair normally? Short.
not homophobic, its the truth
you dumb queer ( thats some homophobia for ya)
Comment by two-faced joel
October 5th, 2009 at 11:42 am
I..HATE ALL TEACHERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!i mean i really we had a choice weather if u want 2 keep long or not??
Comment by two-faced joel
October 5th, 2009 at 11:45 am
ogh yeah sorry my mistake. i wa sayin i really wiah the teachers will give us a choice weather if u want 2 keep long or not?
Comment by Fd
October 6th, 2009 at 11:39 pm
You are wrong not true at all
Comment by DF we
October 6th, 2009 at 11:41 pm
I love short haircut for girls