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[rok_the-boat]

My kid has naturally brown hair - if such a demand came from his school, I'd get some hair dye right enough, drag the teacher to the bathroom, and stuff their head in a sink full of blonde dye that I prepared a little earlier - no hesitation. Or, depending upon my mood, maybe just jet-black - manyCoreans have brownish hair after all - so I don't really understand the point...

[Derrek]

I checked on the hair thing with the student in question. She says her homeroom teacher was the one who told her to color it, but she doesn't want to.

Her mother said that if her teacher told her to color it, she should.

[tzechuk]

I really don't see why she should have to dye it black. My hair is naturally brown - sort of a dark brown/black. It's very prominently brown when I stand in the sun. No one's ever questioned why my hair is brown and not jet black like all other asian people. Nor did my school demand that I should dye it black. It is just frivolously idiotic of that teacher to demand such a thing.

[paperbag princess]

that's totally retarded.

i have some students who have been told they have to cut their hair to chin length. i don't understand why, it's so weird.

[thorin]

Wasn't it the Japanese who cut their hair and put them in uniforms? This time next year they'll all be growing their hair out and wearing hanbok.

[mithridates]

That's right. That's why Park jung-hee was so heroic because he said

NO!

Koreans wear their hair long!

[Khunopie]