Boy Sent Home From School For Cutting Hair ‘Too Short’

A boy, who sported a boy’s haircut, was sent home from school for cutting the sides of his hair ‘too short’, which was against school policy.

Mum Sandra Fedele, from Perth, was outraged after learning that her son, Jake, was sent home because his hair had been cut too short.

Airing her fury on talkback radio, Ms Fedele said that his son, a year 10 student at Corpus Christi College in Perth’s southern suburbs, had gone to class on Monday to collect his exam results as required, but was promptly sent home. She said that teachers at school had decided the trimmed sides of the Jake’s hair could “offend” a fellow student or teacher, and that it was against school policy.

“This morning he went to school on his last day to get his exam results, he’s Year 10, he got told, he text me and said ‘Mum, I’ve been told I have to go home, I’m not allowed to be at school, my hair’s too short’,” the concerned mother told 6PR host Gary Ashead.

She explained that their family went to a wedding at the weekend, and so her son had his hair freshly trimmed. “He got it cut short on the sides and he’s got it just a little bit long on top. It’s not even two centimetres long on top, not like it’s a long fringe down to his nose or anything like that. He’s just got a boy’s haircut, literally a boy’s haircut and he’s got a side part,” she said.

Ms Fedele claimed that teachers told her it was against school policy for students to have hair shorter than a standard number two blade cut, and so she went to a barber for proof that her son’s haircut was within the rules.

She then went back to the school with a note from the barber that said her son had a number two cut. She explained that “it could look shorter because he has fine hair”. Then, it was agreed that the boy could go back into class but “he has to wear a hat on his head all day long”.

Ms Fedele said that the reason for wearing a hat was that the short haircut “may offend”.

“How can that offend anyone? He’s got to wear a hat now,” she said.

“I said ‘you’re discriminating against my child’. It’s just wrong.”

In an interview with Seven News, Jake said he believes the school’s actions were “stupid”. “I thought it was silly. I don’t know why they stopped me for my hair, told me I had to go home. I think it was stupid,” he said.

News.com.au has contacted Corpus Christi College for comment.

Source: News.com.au