Japanese School Forces Student to Dye Hair Black (Brown, Michigan, education)
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Apparently many schools, including 60% of schools in Tokyo, require student's hair to be black. It is common to require proof from baby pictures if your hair is not naturally black.
One school forced a girl with natural brown hair to dye her hair. She claims it has caused scalp and hair damage and is now suing the school for nearly $20,000.
I get wanting basic standards to support a learning environment, but this seems a bit oppressive, too conformist and without any educational gain.
Shouldn't you have rules that (1) make sense, as in a school's rules should support a learning environment while (2) not being overly a burden upon liberty?
How does a school forcing a Japanese girl who has naturally birth given brown hair to dye her hair black help anyone learn better and why is it necessary to restrict her liberty of having the hair color she was born with?
Japan should do what’s good for Japan. If they wanna force students to have black hair, so be it. Who am I as an American to say what they should be doing?
Americans need to worry about their own educational issues.
Apparently many schools, including 60% of schools in Tokyo, require student's hair to be black. It is common to require proof from baby pictures if your hair is not naturally black.
One school forced a girl with natural brown hair to dye her hair. She claims it has caused scalp and hair damage and is now suing the school for nearly $20,000.
I get wanting basic standards to support a learning environment, but this seems a bit oppressive, too conformist and without any educational gain.
Well, there's a saying in Japan. Any nail that sticks up must be hammered down.
In Japan, strict conformity makes for a good educational environment. That's what they believe, leave them alone.
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Originally Posted by michiganmoon
Shouldn't you have rules that (1) make sense, as in a school's rules should support a learning environment while (2) not being overly a burden upon liberty?
How does a school forcing a Japanese girl who has naturally birth given brown hair to dye her hair black help anyone learn better and why is it necessary to restrict her liberty of having the hair color she was born with?
The rules need only to make sense for Japan. It doesn't need to make sense for you, or me, or anyone else that doesn't live there. Japan believes that everyone looking the same conduces to a better learning environment. Likewise they probably think we're barbaric, uncultured, and not serious about education because we let students here do what they want
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