What's the country coming to?

Gavin "shels" · 22-02-2008 12:13AM #1

This girl was suspended from a school in Tallaght as she had a purple streak in her hair, what a joke. The girl is in 6th year and has been turned away to be taught only months before her Leaving Cert.

Is this not discrimination? How can colour in someone's hair affect how she should be taught.

I say all us school students should dye our hair purple and red and go to school in protest, I'm up for it.:D

Red Hand · 22-02-2008 12:14AM

She looks like a rabble-rouser or a communist. Or a stage-coach tilter. Down with that sort of thing!

I remember in school, boys who bleached their hair used to get a few detentions in a row for breaking the dress code.

Gavin "shels" · 22-02-2008 12:17AM

Dress code my boll**k. Thats discrimination, it's a complete joke.:mad:

Ross_Mahon · 22-02-2008 12:19AM

I heard in one school, they are banning playboy pencil cases and make up. Girls have this thing with buying stuff thats 'cool',My sister bought loads of playboy stuff, and i'm like "do you know what playboy is?" she didn't have a clue!

How can they ban make up though? Thats crap, all the girls will look like monsters without it!

cson · 22-02-2008 12:20AM

This was in the news weeks ago.

Pfft, she should have her hair a normal colour. There's no place for that colour hair in society. Suspect carpet muncher I reckon.

On a serious note; didn't some pikeys miss their Junior Cert exams cos they had skint heads in some where in Offaly a couple of years ago? Clara me thinks?

Davidius · 22-02-2008 12:21AM

Let's be fair now.

Who gives a flying **** about how they look? Shallow, shallow, shallow.

22-02-2008 12:22AM

Schools in this country... gotta love it. Load of bollocks.

The schools argument is no doubt that the hair dye is the first step, then the heavy gold jewlery .. etc

Potential-Monke · 22-02-2008 12:22AM

We don't know the background for the story, so we can't really comment, but it would be very foolish if they suspended her for just that. It could have been the final straw in a list of rule breaks. Unfortunately, schools can make a dress code and students have to stick to it. If you feel that it's discrimination, maybe you shoul check out the European Courts of Human Rights and take a case against the school. God knows, people ahve gone there for less.

Jim · 22-02-2008 12:25AM

And then where will we be? Drive by shootings in the middle of the night.
I'm gonna go home and lock myself in the basement.

Galvasean · 22-02-2008 12:26AM

:cool:Purple hair ZOMFG offence!!!!:eek: Batten down the hatches, society as we know it is crumbling!!!!

Oh wait, no it isn't. I'm so glad I'm finished with school. :cool:

bitemybanger · 22-02-2008 12:26AM

haha, you think we have it bad, i was watching a documentry called Americas hardest prisions last night and it was about a prison for 18-25 year olds, its like a military camp, Anyway, there was a young lad in there for a year for just tellin somone hed stab them:rolleyes:
He seemed a quiet guy, no previous criminal history and defo didnt belong in any type of prison. some were in there for being drunk and dissorderly and a load of other reletivly minor offences. maybee this type of police enforcment wouldnt go amiss here;)

crosstownk · 22-02-2008 12:28AM

I haven't read the complete thread. But from the pics I've seen in the newspaper it doesn't look like a suspension/expulsion offence.

Let the girl go to school, FFS!

Gavin "shels" · 22-02-2008 12:30AM

cson wrote: »

This was in the news weeks ago.

On a serious note; didn't some pikeys miss their Junior Cert exams cos they had skint heads in some where in Offaly a couple of years ago? Clara me thinks?

It was on todays Herald and is being talk about on the Adrian K phoneshow at the moment.

Yup that happened two years ago as far as I remember.:rolleyes:

Davidius · 22-02-2008 12:37AM

Meh if a school has a certain dress code then it's really not that hard to follow it. Unless of course you go out of your way to look different/break the code in which case you had it coming. How hard is it to not do something?

randylonghorn · 22-02-2008 12:37AM

What do you bet that teachers in the same school have been heard to say "You shouldn't judge people by their appearance!"

Galvasean · 22-02-2008 12:39AM

Davidius wrote: »

How hard is it to not do something?

Ask a chronic masterbater.

Mr_Roger_Bongos · 22-02-2008 12:51AM

Purple Streak eh?!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cUAlY2LbvU

cson · 22-02-2008 12:51AM

Gavin shels wrote: »

It was on todays Herald and is being talk about on the Adrian K phoneshow at the moment.

Yup that happened two years ago as far as I remember.:rolleyes:

I was in a shop last Saturday and the Heddild had her on the front page. Thats 6 days ago. Maybe I exaggeratted with weeks, but it certainly is old news by todays standards.

Ross_Mahon · 22-02-2008 12:54AM

Lets hope a scumbag doesn't walk into school wielding a shotgun like the terminator over being suspended for Hair color. :cool:

randylonghorn · 22-02-2008 12:56AM

Galvasean wrote: »

Ask a chronic masterbater.

>_>

<_<

Ross_Mahon · 22-02-2008 12:57AM

Mr_Roger_Bongos wrote: »

Purple Streak eh?!

Boys #6 Deco , Boys #3 Anto

Put a load of scumbags in Battle Royale, i could watch that...:D

AckwelFoley · 22-02-2008 12:57AM

Potential-Monke wrote: »

We don't know the background for the story, so we can't really comment, but it would be very foolish if they suspended her for just that. It could have been the final straw in a list of rule breaks.

Exactly.

We dont or wont know the full story.

I bet shes just an innocent victim :rolleyes:

Hitchhiker's Guide to... · 22-02-2008 12:59AM

think i am now old enough to say "cop on and get a haircut, if them's the rules"

srsly, youths of today ...

Dennis the Stone · 22-02-2008 01:00AM

If she wants some private biology lessons I'm available.

AckwelFoley · 22-02-2008 01:01AM

Kemos wrote: »

If she wants some private biology lessons I'm available.

I doubt she needs them

Susannahmia · 22-02-2008 01:33AM

cson wrote: »

This was in the news weeks ago.

Pfft, she should have her hair a normal colour. There's no place for that colour hair in society. Suspect carpet muncher I reckon.

On a serious note; didn't some pikeys miss their Junior Cert exams cos they had skint heads in some where in Offaly a couple of years ago? Clara me thinks?

Yeah, they went to one of my cousins schools, they were real trouble makers and the hair thing was just the last straw. They cut it specifically to pi** off the principal because they thought he wouldn't dare ban them during the exams. They were given the option to sit the exams in another school.

MrJoeSoap · 22-02-2008 01:42AM

Jimeatsmenu wrote: »

And then where will we be? Drive by shootings in the middle of the night.
I'm gonna go home and lock myself in the basement.

Good day to you Father.

Brilliant.

Tha Gopher · 22-02-2008 01:44AM

cson wrote: »

On a serious note; didn't some pikeys miss their Junior Cert exams cos they had skint heads in some where in Offaly a couple of years ago? Clara me thinks?

Travellers sitting state exams?

You jest, surely......

MrJoeSoap wrote: »

Good day to you Father.

Brilliant.

It will be like Boyz in the Hood!!! :P

MrJoeSoap · 22-02-2008 01:49AM

Tha Gopher wrote: »

Travellers sitting state exams?

You jest, surely......

It will be like Boyz in the Hood!!! :P

I never thought I'd see such a thing. What's next? Someone'll be murdered, I suppose. And then the porn kings and drug barons will move in. And then where'll we be? Drive-by shootings and the like. It'll be like Boyz N the Hood. And then they'll have all the hoors selling their wares on the street, and the pimps'll be using crack to keep the hoors under control. I'm going home now to lock myself in the basement until they catch him. Goodbye, Father!

GENIUS

jezza · 22-02-2008 01:55AM

cson wrote: »

This was in the news weeks ago.

Pfft, she should have her hair a normal colour. There's no place for that colour hair in society. Suspect carpet muncher I reckon.

On a serious note; didn't some pikeys miss their Junior Cert exams cos they had skint heads in some where in Offaly a couple of years ago? Clara me thinks?

You watch who you are calling a pikey?
Do you know them? Did you ever meet them? What do you know about them.
Clara? Ppft. You dont even know where they're from.

Don't you dare call him a pikey.

No they didn't miss their junior cert.

Jeez. Whatever happened to getting facts straight.

muckwarrior · 22-02-2008 01:58AM

Davidius wrote: »

Meh if a school has a certain dress code then it's really not that hard to follow it.

Yeah, that's fine if it dictates how you dress. Piercings/jewellery etc. can be removed before going to school leaving you free to do what you want outside school. Dictating what colour someone's hair should be is ridiculous as they're telling you how you should look outside of school as well.

If they're legally allowed to do this then I'm gonna work to become a school principal and suspend all gingers

What's the country coming to?

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