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[Ya-ta Boy]

High School Teacher: Boys! This is an indignity. An outrage! Your hair is too long. How can you expect to get a proper education if you can�t obey the rules? Don�t you value your education?

50 High School Boys: Oh, please, sir. We�re deeply sorry and remorseful.

High School Teacher: Boys, it�s 12:30. Go up on the roof and wait for the Vice Principal. He�ll be up to scold you after lunch.

50 High School Boys: Oh, no sir! Please not that! Don�t send us up on the roof on such a glorious fall day. We can�t stand the fresh air and sunshine. Please, let us stay in those stuffy classrooms. Please, please, sir. We beg you!

High School Teacher: No, boys, I�m sorry. My mind is made up. Up to the roof with you. And don�t enjoy the free time and fresh air. Don�t even think about sneaking back into class until after the Vice Principal chews you out.

50 High School Boys; Oh, woe is us.

45 minutes later�

High School Vice Principal: Boys, you are a disgrace to Yeoju First High School, your parents and the entire nation of Korea. You must be punished! I hope your suffering teaches you a lesson.

You must leave school immediately on this gorgeous autumn day and not return until you have had your hair cut to regulation length. Let this be a lesson to you.

50 High School Boys: Oh sir, you are too too cruel.

On their way past me out the door, I distinctly heard �tee hee, tee hee�. It�s now a quarter to 5 and not a one has returned.

Something tells me the Vice Principal has not quite grasped the concept of punishment.

(I entirely made up the 50 Boys dialog, but the Teacher/VP stuff was pretty much what was said.)

[Pak Yu Man]

Same crap happens back home. do bad stuff...they suspend/expel you.

They should make them get on their hands and knees and scrub the halls with toothbrushes.

Anyways...what does the lenght of ones hair have to do with education? Sometimes older Koreans are fuktards.

[riley]

I wish I was a bad teacher and I could have been "punished" that way.

[mindmetoo]

The Japanese had this great punishment for workers who worked at job-for-life companies and seriously forked up. They were given a "window job". Basically a desk by a window and nothing to do. Ever. The shame was so much many of these men would kill themselves. This was pre-internet, of course. That punishment might be less harsh today. And I swear a dot.com I worked at I had a job just like that. It's amazing what kind of personal businesses you can run from a work desk wired over a T1.