This petition was submitted during the 2015-2017 parliament
Rejected petition Allow all hair colour/styles, and abolish the ban of facial piercings in school.
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.
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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?
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Why was this petition rejected?
It’s about something that the UK Government or Parliament is not directly responsible for.
At the moment, decisions about rules like these are made by individual schools. If you'd like the rules at your school to be changed, you could raise this with your school's senior management or governing body.
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