friday2011:
Stupid parents, they dont have N150 to barb the boys hair but have money to make case and send teachers to prison, this country ehnn... People brain no dey work well again, they are so used to abnormalities.

Rubish.

FuckThaMod:
This thread made me call my mum who has been a government secondary school teacher for 35years and she supports the parents.. She said the school is 100% wrong and ought to have sent the child home instead of tampering with the physical appearance of the child.

Fvck the mumus here supporting the school.. Shame on you all!

lozanni:
It could be the parents are Rastafarians as it's normal for them to wear dreadlocks.
It could also have to do with the parents religious leanings as some white garment churches do not Barb their children hair until they reach a certain age.

CeterisXVII:

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.


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

Ijawwomaninoyo:
The case is a double sided coin! If you don't like the rules of the game, then take your ball to another playing ground!
If you must live in Rome, then do like the Romans!
I know a lot of Private schools who don't allow weave ons and attachments of any sort in the primary school, children weave or plait ordinary hair and it is written in the school rules. They only allow it when they want to do end of the year or Christmas Programs. Anytime outside that, they write notes to the parents, if they refuse and still continue bringing the child, just like this one, they remove it! What if everyone decides to be disobedient? You can't allow some children to be bringing attachments while sanctioning others.
Some said they should have told the parents, it is written there that the parents disobeyed deliberately.
Some said they should have sent him home, a 5 year old?
At times you need to see the way these private school students go to school, some will even cut uniforms to micro mini.

suzzyboss:
America military?? Guy you have no point.. Why do stylist keep different types of hair cut.. Why do lawyers wear wig.. The white men that gave us the mentality to build schools sef most of their kids have bushy or different hair cuts and don't that hair cut make them inappropriate in anyway..

bigiyaro:
when I know how black men think, especially Nigerians, what if the parents accused me of trying to use the child's hair for rituals? wrong move by the teachers.

ekevwe:
Did your mum gave birth to you via CS?

Why will a teacher cut 5 year old pupil hair as a way of discipline the child? At your age you should know any child under 10 is not matured enough to be blamed for any crime.

You are blaming modern days parenting whereas teachers of these days are worst.

Bimpe29:
Some parents of nowadays and our judicial system are inexplicable really.
How is discharging ones responsibility as a teacher becoming an issue in a country like ours?

ORBLIGHTS:
I KNOW SOME CERTAIN FAMILIES IN THA NEIGHBORHOOD BACK THEN WHO ATTEND WHITE-GARMENT CHURCH AND THEY SAID THEIR CHILD SHOULD NOT SHAVE HIS HAIR UNTIL A CERTAIN AGE OF HIS LIFE.... (IN SUCH SITUATION U HAVE TO RESPECT THE FAITH AND BELIEF OF THOSE PEOPLE NO MATTER WHO THE FVCK U ARE)

texazzpete:
Which ‘moral decay’?

You people LOVE suffering and you love people taking you for a ride. How can a teacher cut your child’s hair without a parents conSent?

Madness

akanbiaa:
How can a responsible parent not take care of their child's hair even when told that it will be cut by the school if not taken care of by the parents. My judgement (the parents needs mental evaluation and guidance and counselling on how to be responsible)

charlesikhalea:
Everybody is saying what they like about this,
But have you seen the generation that these forced cutting of hair teachers groomed/raised? Don't we have killers and thieves from that generation? Please Nigerians let us try to move forward, cutting of hair has nothing to do with intelligence or good morals, it's a choice, it's the backwardness of most of this so called teachers that's making the country the way it is. Beating/flogging children into becoming what's not for them, the result is the frustrated Nigerian youths you see out there, bullied into living a life they don't even understand.

respect80:

It's funny dat u actually understand dat things have changed and stil expect d child's parents to overlook something like dis esp in dis era of wickedness in high places whereby people's hairs, nails, bras, panties etc have been reportedly used in diabolical ways against dem. i believe there are better ways to tackle such issues in saner climes. i'm not being diabolic but one just have 2 b careful cos u may not know d exact person u dealing wit especially in a society like ours where people believe d unbelievable.
Truly, things have changed and d good old days when everything looks normal are long gone.

Angelfrost:
See ehn... Going back and forth, or bandying words will neither convince either of us... Truth remains: A school is no different from the military (Fact is, the army starts off as a school).

You think school is merely a gathering of kids to read and write??!... Please, wake up!!! It is a bloody institution for building of character and shaping of personalities!!!

The matter under discourse is quite simple: A school has enforceable rules and regulations well spelt out in her prospectus! Inability to abide simply requires withdrawal from the institution, not arresting or assaulting staff members authorized to enforce those rules. That is what civilization is all about... That's what pertains all over the world!... So, I don't get the use of silly condescending remarks like "Nigerians"!!!

Note: I don't support misuse of authority or acting crudely on the part of teachers. If this is the case above, then the tutors went astray. That still doesn't excuse the misuse or oppressive use of the law by the parents, as a simple discussion with written apology would have sufficed!!!

Sir/Ma, my grouse here is the ridiculing of the authority and integrity of the institution of education, which I have been observing with dismay for years now, even in a cultural and respectful nation like Nigeria... The results of such ridicule will tell terribly on us all. Watch the generation of leaders and adults we are raising, and tell yourself some hard truths!!!... Everything is not about political correctness!!!

This is the last I will respond on this matter... To everyone his opinion!!! Thank you.

akanbiaa:
Since you know all these why can't you just obey the school rules shave your child's hair yourself instead of being stubborn and ignoring their warning?

nairalanduseles:
Your opinion is irrelevant jew

eledacedar:
Nigerian students are same in being unruly, being undisciplined, being druggies as well as bringing guns and AXES to schools. In these regards, Nigerian students are no better off.

Is it not this same Nigeria that a student brought tear gas to school?

Is it not this same Nigeria that female students refused to wear pants to school because they are marlians?

Primary and secondary school students abuse weed, tramol, codeine, etc anyhow.

So what gives?

CeterisXVII:

The parent should have ensured, that her kid did not carry bushy hair, that would have led to any teacher cutting it. Simple.

Any daft parent that makes that kind of accusation, should keep his or her child at home. After all, what if the teacher kidnaps the child, while the kid is at school? Or what if the teacher poisons the child while in school? Nansense!

CeterisXVII:

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

CeterisXVII:

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

CeterisXVII:

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

CeterisXVII:

And what gave rise to such behaviour among Nigerian students? Oversabi and irresponsible parents, trying to be woke, who did not teach their children the right kind of behaviour, and did not school them on how to make the right choices.

Look at the homes of these Marlians, and they way they were brought up by their parents, and you will see why they derailed....

Children raised with good values, do not become marlians who do not wear pants...

eledacedar:
Many children live by double standards.

Many children start well but don't end well not because of bad parenting but because of peer pressure.

The good children in Nigeria, have they developed cure for corona virus?

Let's stop the blame game. In every society whether Africa, Europe or America, there are both good and bad children, both good and bad parents, both good and bad teachers.

Cutting a child's hair in the absence of the parent is a no-no. Send the child back to the parent who has refused to do the needful.

klax:
So in this time of corona you just woke up to respond to outdated issue that is absolutely irrelevant to current situation on ground ok nah.

Since you resurrected already buried issue then I eont hesitate to answer within the sensible context.

Mr man or Madam yea the West are unruly but yet produced Obama, the world best scientist, the world finest doctors, the world finest politicians, the world best Engineers, the world best sportmen, the world most discipline human, the world Billionaire infact world best pastors and clergy men etc and our country where flogging, kicking, slapping, bullying, cutting pupils hair with no parent consent produced people like Shekau boko Haram, Anini, Oyenusi, Shina Rambo, yahoos, Ritualist like Otolotoh, fulani herdsmen, Nigeria politicians who are political robbers, altar robbers pastors, terrorist imam, Naira Marley etc

Look if you are a teacher try to shave my son hair without my permission then you will understand wella I won't say more than that.

bigiyaro:
shatap dia!! what do you mean by bushy hair? what if I want my child's hair to be like wole Soyinka's own, or I want my child to be like Bob Marley? you are just fvcking teacher, i pay you to teach my child how to read and write, my child's hairstyle is non of your fvcking business, just stick to what you are paid to do. you do whatever you want with you kid's hair, not mine.

CeterisXVII:

What kind of a silly question is this? Giving birth through CS? Does it mean women who give birth through CS are not mothers, or did NOT suffer labour pains? You people, sef....


Ask me, o! Especially when the parents had been told several times to cut the kids hair, and they failed. Badly behaved parents will breed ill-bred children.....that is the truth.

CeterisXVII:

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.....

Proletariat:
I would have engaged you in a debate, but seeing from the bolded text that you assume the poor are less human and not entitled to human rights as the rich, I will let you wallow in your mental slavery.

Luckily, the parents of the kid know they have rights, a right obviously acknowledged by the police who made the arrest.

Their ignorance of the law is punishable as the teachers have learnt, proceed to also physically assault someone on the pretext of teaching manners and etiquette and you will learn yours too.

Go and visit the arrested teachers in police cell and commiserate with them.

klax:
This is not the time for all these your jackie wackies. Too outdated discussion or topic.

Thanks.

CeterisXVII:

The first word you used already shows your mindset.

If you want your own fvcking kid to be like Bob Marley, build your own school for him, and teach him there.

Don't expect other schools with rules and regulations, to accept him into their premises, to be doing nonsense. The school is NOT your private estate. End of story.....

bigiyaro:
you can go and hang yourself! gone are the days when sadistic sadists like you used to run schools, we have more enlightened proprietors now, thats why your kind of backward school are just empty classes with dull teachers.

klax:
Really Its only stupid person that know who is stupid. Meaning: You klax are the first stupid before any other.

You want to open floor for bashing bah Nice one its you that will dissappear las las.

Any more shit from you......?

CeterisXVII:


And the good children abroad, have they developed a cure for Corona virus? Let us stop giving excuses.

Well-trained children who have been given sound moral values by their parents, and taught how to make the right choices, will not be influenced by peer pressure, to do wrong.

My late Dad always told me: "Always have the courage to say NO, to things that are wrong, unethical or illicit. It doesn't matter if everyone is doing it....there is no right way, to do that which is wrong."

Till today, that statement comes to my mind when I want to make a choice on anything.

Even when there is peer pressure, inner substance will rise to the surface. That is why you see some kids walking away from evil, while others are drawn to it, the way a moth is drawn to a flame.

A child with sound values and good home training, will always find a way to drop bad habits even if he picks it up, by mistake.

If a kid's parents have been told the right thing to do, and the instructions were clearly conveyed to them, while they chose to flout it, then they should be aware that every contravention will attract sanctions.