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> Did a pierced bald boy with a ring once torch a school? Do teachers have some kind of phobia for specific hairdos? I can't say this was the case for your sch
by riffraff 6y ago
> Did a pierced bald boy with a ring once torch a school? Do teachers have some kind of phobia for specific hairdos?
I can't say this was the case for your school, but often certain events or changes in culture cause rules to be established that end up being incomprehensible years later.
For example a shaved head was ok when I started school, but when neo-nazi skinheads became popular in the '90s the haircut became unwelcome (though not strictly prohibited).
- elric 6y agoYou would think that the logical thing to rally against would be neo-nazi behaviour instead of hairdos. Of course the former is much harder to detect & enforce than the latter. So instead we pick a terrible proxy to identify unwanted behaviour. A few iterations later, anyone who doesn't fit a narrow set of criteria is immediately suspicious.