akanbiaa:
Can you really pay a Teacher for his services? The moment we start treating Education as seeking knowledge and morals and not a business the better for all stake holders.

So it is immoral to allow your natural hair to grow?
Who deceived you like this?

akanbiaa:
Excepting one child is corruption itself for other parents will see it as being unjust, and it's not abuse as long as sterilized clippers was used, if you allow just one child to be excepted the next day some parents will even demand that they want their daughter to wear just pants to school of that's what they feel like, others will demand they want their child to have tattoos, others sill say they want their child to sag their trousers, others will say they want their child to drink alcohol since its not a crime etc. Get my point? The only solution is for such parents to look for such schools that places no value on the moral health of their child and wants freedom to do whatever they like and pass exams by hook or crook and leave schools that balances morals with education alone.

You are wrong. There are always exceptions on health ground, disability or otherwise.
One of my uncles will always have cold anytime he's on a low cut without a cap on (the same with his kids). So he either keeps his hairs or cut and put a cap on.
As far as we're concerned, we don't know more than what we're reading on here..there could be more to it.

StagethemTVee:
If you are bigger than the parent's decisions, then lock up your school and go hungry

Lol... I don't need to lock my school because sensible people who are morally structured will locate me... It is people like you who need to find a school of their preference. An individual cannot be bigger than the rules and regulations of a standard organization.

Take your child to an institution like Covenant University and perform rubbish. If you cannot bend to the rules, you should be willing to pull out. Don't destroy your children because of your arrogant attitude. If you are rich, you neither the richest nor the first to be rich. Many parents are the 'why' behind their children attitude and the truth is they end up regretting it.

Although I am not in support of what the teacher did, saying that the school has no power over you as parents is what I frown at. For me, I will write the parents not bring the child to school until they low his/her hair.

If you have an exception, let the school be aware of it.

macof:

So it is immoral to allow your natural hair to grow?
Who deceived you like this?

A mad man's hair to grow naturally.

A Student needs not only knowledge and guidance from Teachers but also their blessings.

Jimmyubah2:

Every school and organization has its rules and everyone must strictly adhere to it or else such school or organization becomes lawless. Keep your individual values aside and keep to the group values. In the school I went to they even cut pencil trousers and send the girls home for wearing skirt above the kneels.
If we are all allow to do whatever we feel is good for us in school, our society will become lawless.

For the instances you cited, the individual students were not assaulted, they were sent home or their prohibited artifact was confiscated.

Does that equate to bringing out a razor or clipper and subsequently cutting off the personal hair of a 5 year old child who is not an orphan?

What manner of parent will you be if anyone can do that to your child when you are not dead or a deadbeat father?

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GOOD!

Teach them a lesson...
Next time, call his parents.
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Angelfrost:


Sir, when you put it this way, I can't help but completely concur with you!!!... The teachers went a tad too far. They should have sent the kid home.

Point of correction though, there was nothing abusive about enforcing clearly laid down rules and regulations. There still isn't!!!... The only difference now is that rules are less enforced, more room is given for negotiations, etc....

Many of us suffered abuses from the teachers which I will never allow my children to pass through and become victims like me and others. I remember a teacher beating me with cane in primary two, primary two and all my back skin torn apart. I couldn't sleep on my back for about two weeks until after my back skin healed. I remember a teacher making me and one other student did frog jump for several minutes, or even couple of hours. The other student couldn't come to school for one or two weeks while I managed to come to school but my two kneecaps were always touching each other for two weeks. I shouldn't even try to run because I would fall down as a result of my kneecaps interlocking. If you insist those were not abuse, I wonder what constitutes abuse in your lists

There will always be laid down rules with regards to appearance for students in schools, especially privately owned or missionary schools...

Why not query the insistence on low cut hair in missionary and model schools, particular foot wears, etc... What about church owned tertiary institutions??!...

It is choice. If you agree, stay. If you can't agree, then the school should release you. And if you feel that your fundamental human right has been abused by asking you to quit, then proceed to court for clarification. Because, the fact that you are the proprietor doesn't make you alpha and omega of what is allowed and what is not allowed.

Simply look through the school's prospectus, and make up your mind to stay or flee... You don't decide to stay, and begin to question them later.

It is the duty of the management to ask a student to leave if they feel that rules and regulations are not obeyed to the fullest, simple. You don't just grab a kid and do what you want with him or her in the absence of the parents.

akanbiaa:
A mad man's hair to grow naturally.

so this looks like a mad man?

Guy you're not ok
You have been seriously conditioned by colonisation to hate natural African hair
People with your type of mentality should have no place educating the next generation of Africans

maasoap:


Many of us suffered abuses from the teachers which I will never allow my children to pass through and become victims like me and others. I remember a teacher beating me with cane in primary two, primary two and all my back skin torn apart. I couldn't sleep on my back for about two weeks until after my back skin healed. I remember a teacher making me and one other student did frog jump for several minutes, or even couple of hours. The other student couldn't come to school for one or two weeks while I managed to come to school but my two kneecaps were always touching each other for two weeks. I shouldn't even try to run because I would fall down as a result of my kneecaps interlocking. If you insist those were not abuse, I wonder what constitutes abuse in your lists


It is choice. If you agree, stay. If you can't agree, then the school should release you. And if you feel that your fundamental human right has been abused by asking you to quit, then proceed to court for clarification. Because, the fact that you are the proprietor doesn't make you alpha and omega of what is allowed and what is not allowed.



It is the duty of the management to ask a student to leave if they feel that rules and regulations are not obeyed to the fullest, simple. You don't just grab a kid and do what you want with him or her in the absence of the parents.

Thank you for your detailed response... But honestly, we are still saying the same thing!

When it comes to enforcing law and order, the approach of the enforcers will always vary depending on the personalities involved.... That your teachers were harsh doesn't put discipline in a negative light. Do all policemen enforce laid down laws with the same amount and pattern of force or harshness??!.. That a police went overboard doesn't make the laws he is enforcing extreme or abusive!!!... He is the one at fault, not the ageless laws he has been tasked with upholding.

I have already acceded that the teachers in this case probably went a tad too far in the enforcing of laid down rules. But this doesn't negate the ageless importance of discipline, and abiding by rules/regulations.

I really don't understand the need to actually overflog this... Some things are constant! Rules are one of those things!!!... I repeat sir, if rules of a certain institution don't agree with you, simply move over to the one with lesser restrictions!

macof:
so this looks like a mad man?

Guy you're not ok
You have been seriously conditioned by colonisation to hate natural African hair
People with your type of mentality should have no place educating the next generation of Africans

Is that the hair of the 5 year old child? My problem with you is that you have feel it's okay to go against constituted rules you are not comfortable with and only adopt those you are comfortable with. So in essence you prefer the life of lawlessness and greed /selfishness. Instead of you to make effort to ensure laws not favorable to you are changed you prefer to disobey them.

akanbiaa:
Is that the hair of the 5 year old child? My problem with you is that you have feel it's okay to go against constituted rules you are not comfortable with and only adopt those you are comfortable with. So in essence you prefer the life of lawlessness and greed /selfishness. Instead of you to make effort to ensure laws not favorable to you are changed you prefer to disobey them.

we both know that the problem here is letting the hair grow out. So yes that picture is valid. You still didn't answer my question
Does that look like a mad man?

My point is the hatred for letting the natural African hair grow is bad. And nobody should be castigated for just having a lengthy hair
So yes any school with such a ridiculous law needs to do away with the law

macof:
we both know that the problem here is letting the hair grow out. So yes that picture is valid. You still didn't answer my question
Does that look like a mad man?

My point is the hatred for letting the natural African hair grow is bad. And nobody should be castigated for just having a lengthy hair
So yes any school with such a ridiculous law needs to do away with the law

Okay

macof:
we both know that the problem here is letting the hair grow out. So yes that picture is valid. You still didn't answer my question
Does that look like a mad man?

My point is the hatred for letting the natural African hair grow is bad. And nobody should be castigated for just having a lengthy hair
So yes any school with such a ridiculous law needs to do away with the law

Seems you have a bitter similar experience while growing up and you have not totally forgiven the Teacher. Since these particular case have been handed to the law, I believe the Teacher in there case did something unethical and perhaps without the permission of the school authorities and that's why he was sentenced.

Idiot patents that will breed idiot children

Angelfrost:


Thank you for your detailed response... But honestly, we are still saying the same thing!

When it comes to enforcing law and order, the approach of the enforcers will always vary depending on the personalities involved.... That your teachers were harsh doesn't put discipline in a negative light. Do all policemen enforce laid down laws with the same amount and pattern of force or harshness??!.. That a police went overboard doesn't make the laws he is enforcing extreme or abusive!!!... He is the one at fault, not the ageless laws he has been tasked with upholding.

I have already acceded that the teachers in this case probably went a tad too far in the enforcing of laid down rules. But this doesn't negate the ageless importance of discipline, and abiding by rules/regulations.

I really don't understand the need to actually overflog this... Some things are constant! Rules are one of those things!!!... I repeat sir, if rules of a certain institution don't agree with you, simply move over to the one with lesser restrictions!

Did I disagree with this? No. My point is that: were the kid and his parents given the chance? Were they called to come and take their kid away from their school? No. The management and the teachers didn't consider all options available to them, they just went for the punishment.

maasoap:


Did I disagree with this? No. My point is that: were the kid and his parents given the chance? Were they called to come and take their kid away from their school? No. The management and the teachers didn't consider all options available to them, they just went for the punishment.

In that case, they deserve to be punished by the law of the land!!!

arinze198:
Source: https://pmexpressng.com/teachers-sent-to-prison-for-shaving-pupils-hair/

These are the kinds of parents whose children will turn into yahoo boys and cultists, tomorrow....

Authoreety:
They should have sent his parents a letter or even send him home instead of this, even after the letter, nothing gives them the right to cut their hair without consent of the parent

What do you mean by nothing gives them the right to cut the students hair? So is there something that gives students the right, to carry unruly hairstyles into the school? Tell us.....

Dont you think the school would have spelt out their rules, regarding the kind of hairstyles allowed in their premises?

Do you know that some kids will never deliver such letters to their parents?

I have said it before, that irresponsible parents will breed irreparable children' that lack common sense.

The hair style of those students must have been offensive, which was what led teachers to cut it. If they had followed the approved style, nobody would have cut their hair.

In my days, a teacher would cut your hair, and your mother would scrape the remaining strands off, and still go and apologise to teacher on your behalf, the next day.

Kiaka8:
chaiii moral decay
this is the reason why our children of these days are nothing to write home about
during our time this is a routine stuff and the public bath stuff for the dirty pupils while others watch in amusement.

the shame only will make you remind your parents next time to do the needful.

Honestly things have changed

You are very correct. In fact, in those days if teacher cuts your hair anyhow, your parents will help you scrape the rest off, and even beat you on top!

Jakama90:
Those teacher's got what they deserved.. They have no right at all to shave a student's hair without the parents or guardians consent.

After they had warned parents, that their children should not bring bushy hair to school? There are sanctions for repeated bad behaviour. Schools are no exemption.

Proletariat:
You don't dictate for another parent the hairstyle you have chosen for your own child.

As you have chosen, others have chosen.

Some parents like gorimapa, while others love low cut, and some love afro.

Parents have the right to decide for their kids, while every adult has the right to decide for him/herself.

In your bid to sound woke, you ended up sounding foolish. Schools have a big right to dictate whatever they like, for their students. From hairstyles, to uniforms, to behaviour, to study patterns to disciplinary measures. That is why it is called a school.

The rules are clearly spelt out. You either shape in, or shape out. Those parents were mannerless and uncultured.

What stopped them from taking up the issue, with school authorities? And it is even an Oko-Oba area....

What do they want parents in Ikoyi and Victoria Island to say? Nansense.....

klax:
That is regarded as an abuse in Western country and might be jail for it so Teachers no matter how bushy child hair is shaving pupil hair its not part of your duty you have really overstepped your boundary.

There is boundary to everything. Sorry I have nothing more to say than to wish them good luck in the trail and these will serve as a lesson to overzealous teachers.

And that is part of the reasons why children in the West are so indisciplined, or become junkies at an early age, and can even bring guns to school. No restraint and no morals....mtcheew

Ausrichie:

Why the insult because someone wants his child to keep his hair. Is it bad? If it is explain.

It is bad if the school deems it to be so. Another reason is to prevent the spread of lice, in children's hair.

Why don't army recruits have beards and long dreadlocks? Why do they carry crew cuts?

Jimmyubah2:
Don't mind them. Shame on all of them supporting such parent. They are all spoilt little brats.
That's how my younger brother's class mate spent his school fee on drugs and frivolent things cus his dad was always backing him in school whenever the school disciplined him. Today he has created a monster fighting him back.

God bless you. Those schools with strong sense of discipline are all gone, now. The woke and irresponsible parents have combined to pull them down.....

nairalanduseles:
How can people support this act
Am old school but that is so wrong
That is why I never raised my kids in naija

Nobody gives a hoot where you raised your child. When in Rome, behave as the Romans. Simple.

FuckThaMod:
Very good parents.. No one should every try such nonsense with my kid. If i wanted my kid to shave i take him or her to the saloon.. If i as a father can respect my kid's decision to keep his/her hair bushy, then who are you as a teacher who gets fed through the money i pay as school fees? Did i send my kid to a school to be shaved or to learn? What if in the process of shaving and the kid gets infected?
I see some fools supporting the teachers & this is the reason the country is stagnant, we don't know our rights!
It's little little things like these we ignore that makes the country what it is today, the politicians can do as they and many will still feel they are right. Fvcking bitchass irritating foolish Nigerians

From the words you used, everyone can see how badly trained you were. So you paid them money....didnt they carry out the service of teaching your child? Or did you just dash them the money for doing nothing? Abeg swerve....

Jimmyubah2:
Every school and organization has its rules and everyone must strictly adhere to it or else such school or organization becomes lawless. Keep your individual values aside and keep to the group values. In the school I went to they even cut pencil trousers and send the girls home for wearing skirt above the kneels.
If we are all allow to do whatever we feel is good for us in school, our society will become lawless.

Don't mind those clowns saying rubbish. Even in many organisations, there are specific dress codes, for specific jobs. If you flout it, then you get sanctioned.

eledacedar:
Britons, American and others have long hairs and they leave them. Why can't we do same? Why must we cut ours?

That is why their children are so unruly, indisciplined, drug addicts and bring guns to school.

RisenPhoenix:
No. I am a fan of discipline, but this specific case is what you get when you overstep your boundaries. We send our children to school to learn maths and English, not to be subject to abuse by frustrated school staff. Do you know how humiliated that child would have felt to be forcibly shaved in front of all his friends? And for a reason that was not even his fault?

The problem is that abuse tends to be self propagating from one generation to the next.

Don't be silly. Can you just listen to yourself? Teach your kids the maths and English at home, since that is all they need to know. ....

CeterisXVII:

Nobody gives a hoot where you raised your child. When in Rome, behave as the Romans. Simple.

Your opinion is irrelevant jew

prinzedy:
I'll answer you
As a kid going to school, you looking unkempt gives the impression that your parents are dirty and irresponsible.

Also it gives the school and it's management bad image and poor representation.

As an adult your hair style can make you look like a rogue or irresponsible.

Let me ask you a question
Why do you think the court decides to leave the welfare and upbringing of the child in the hands of those considered sound and responsible?

God bless you 100-fold for this beautiful answer. You forgot to add, that lice can get transmitted easily, through bushy unkempt hair. Keeping the hair of young children short, helps to maintain hygiene.

RisenPhoenix:
Adherence to that part of school regulation that they are capable of. A haircut is not within the capability of a 5 year old child.

And I can teach them character myself. I don't accept any usurpation of my right as a father to guide my children's morals. The so called discipline that our children are unjustly exposed to in schools is depriving them of kindness and human feelings. We are breeding a generation of rebellious psychos. Yes our forefathers enforced discipline, but they knew how to do it with justice, not out of anger, and frustration with the present economy.

Do you realise that the more you talk, the more you sound silly?