Ban schools from making rules that disallow specific hair colours and piercings.

Closed 50 signatures

What the petition asks

Students are always told to show their individuality through creativity. How do we do this when schools ban certain hair colours and styles, and facial piercings? "Reasoning" is that it is a distraction from learning, but this isn't so when teachers don't follow the same principle they set.

Students can be given the same punishment for having (e.g.) pink hair, as someone who has assaulted another pupil - this is something that needs to be rectified.

For example, in one secondary school, a student was threatened with a day's worth of internal exclusion for having a strip of pink hair. The same punishment is given to people in the school who assault others, bully others, and are just genuinely badly behaved...how are these two actions justifiably punishable through the same means?

Timeline

10 Mar 2017	Petition opened for signatures
2 May 2017	Closed to new signatures

Key facts

Signatures 50

Status Closed

Opened 10 Mar 2017

Closed 2 May 2017

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