Can your kids go to school with fun hair colors?

[trytobearunner34]

AS long as it is not distracting from learning (and nothing has been in the 7 years my school has been open), so yes.

[mrsjuleshs]

Yep! And facial piercings are also allowed as well as tats showing.

[UMaineTeach]

You can do whatever hair at my school

[nsl]

My last district had the "no unnatural hair colors rule," which was sometimes enforced as the "no unnatural hair colors for THIS STUDENT rule." One of my kids (who was in the top 10% of her class, FFS!) was nearly sent home at graduation because she had bleached streaks in her black hair. Her mom threatened to go to the media, so the principal backed down. It was so ridiculous.

My new district has no rules at all about hair color. Only a small percentage of students dye their hair, and it's not distracting at all in the classroom. We even have a teacher with rainbow-colored hair.

Frankly, if my own children choose to rebel by playing around with their hair color I'll be freaking delighted. Better something like that than tattoos, drugs, and sex.

[killercupcake]

I think my district has a rule about unnatural hair colors, but we file that under "pick your battles" at my school and we don't care.

[LanaLang]

No unnatural hair colors, only jeans, black, or khaki pants, and just last year they relaxed the shirts to include any solid color polo instead of just that particular school's six chosen colors. This is the rule across the county for all public school students.

[angelaa73]

Sept 1, 2016 17:07:49 GMT -5 jaylea said:

I've never seen a dress code for our school, and kids have all different colors. L had turquoise tips last year.

If you tell me your kid is 17 i will die. Die. Shes still 6 right? 7 tops?

[cville]

I legit never thought about this. I just checked, no rules about hair.

[bittybomb]

Sept 1, 2016 15:51:56 GMT -5 hisno1girl said:

Sept 1, 2016 13:38:32 GMT -5 bittybomb said:

This is funny to me.  Our regular uniform requires navy or black socks, but the gym uniform requires white socks with either white, black, blue or grey sneakers (with no other color, especially NEON, anywhere on the shoe, even the laces) and our principal always makes a big deal to point out the socks should be PURE white.  Makes me laugh.  Lol.

I miss uniforms. I wish I could wear one now. So much easier than putting an outfit together ever day

God, yes.  And as a parent, it is so much easier.  Much much much easier.  I picked up a pair of new uniform pants for my son, new gym shorts for my daughter, a few pair of socks for both, had her jumper tailored, bought new uniform shoes, and bam!  school shopping was done.

[jaylea]

Sept 1, 2016 20:00:15 GMT -5 angelaa73 said:

Sept 1, 2016 17:07:49 GMT -5 jaylea said:

I've never seen a dress code for our school, and kids have all different colors. L had turquoise tips last year.

If you tell me your kid is 17 i will die. Die. Shes still 6 right? 7 tops?

Almost 10. 10! She wears a size 7 women's shoe.

[glynn]

Public school-NO

[erbear]

Kids can have whatever color hair they want at our school in all grades.

Private school (Quaker). Lots of hair colors, piercings and tats on students as well as faculty.

[malibu]

I have no idea. My kid starts Kindergarten in six days and we still don't even know who her teacher is. Our district apparently sucks in the communication department.

I tried to find out about the hair color thing via their website. Still don't know.

[revolution]

Secondary can have any color they want. Elementary has to be natural colors.

[mrsjuleshs]

Sept 1, 2016 19:57:23 GMT -5 tiki said:

Sept 1, 2016 19:07:57 GMT -5 mrsjuleshs said:

Yep! And facial piercings are also allowed as well as tats showing.

Now I am imagining a whole classroom of kindergartners with rainbow hair, piercings, and tattoos

She's a senior. It's only at the high school level they allow piercings and tats. Multiple ear piercings were never a problem in jr high. She has her nose pierced and came home in December with a small wrist tat she got with her sisters. Wasn't a fan but at least it has meaning. She's almost an adult and her body and it was already done so not much I could do about it. There are a lot of kids who have them. Way different from when I got sent home from school in the same district 20 years ago because being one knees, my shorts were more than 2" from the floor.