Issues with the treatment of Max:

*No matter what the school’s new view on hair colour is, the school has not been consistent with their responses. Max dyed his hair blonde and has subsequently been sent to the referral unit until his hair grows out to his natural colour. There areis a substantial amount of boys that I know of (in the upper school alone) whothat have also dyed their hair different colours- mostly blonde, who have faced no consequences and are allowed to remain in lessons as normal. By taking Max out of lessons for this, – the school are failing their objective of creating the best possible education for each and every student. The job of a teacher isit to teach. It is not to worry about what the student that they’re teaching looks like. I think whoever has made the decision to remove Max from lessons has done a disservice to the school’s teachers., I am confident the teachers would be happy to teach Max with his hair in it’s current state.

*The school’s policy on hairstyles and haircuts is laughably flawed. Hairstyles/colours transcend school., Aa hairstyle or colour is not selected for school, it is is for the students’ own personal desires. Students are at school 35 hours a week. There are 168 hours a week. This means students spend less than a quarter of their time at school. Therefore it is outrageous that the school demands to control how the students look WHEN THEY AREN’T EVEN IN SCHOOL. Banning students’ legitimate methods of expressinggaining their individuality is just not progressive at all, it halts their growth as young men. By doing this you are compromising a school objective to develop the boys as people.

*How on earth does what colour hair a student has affect his/her or anyone else’s learning??? It simply does not. The only thing that affects learning in this place is taking said student out of lesson!

*If the school’s idea is that by being “stricter” on hairstyles the school are keeping up the nautical “ethos” then they should think again. The nautical ethos is to encourage young people to try out watersports, not trying to emulate exactly what the navy forces do. Anyway, the job of the young navy men these days is often patrolling the seas around a tropical island in the sun, hoping for the world to travel back in time to an era where the navy had any social or cultural relevance. The job is clearly less inviting these days as the numberamount of boys leaving LNS to join the navy has been significantlymajorly dwindling – to the point where having one boy join the navy from a year group is a raritycommodity. In the pre- Wworld Wwar Ttwo era the majority of boys graduated the school and left for the sea. So for the year 1915, the strict parameters of hair code mimicking the navy were highly suitable. They are not representative any more.

The school has taken backward steps since last year. I hope this is reversederadicated very soon.