Teacher cuts pupil's hair, mum files police report

I had a lot to say about this initially but my thoughts boil down to this: What kind of lesson are we teaching the supposed leaders of tomorrow if having hair that is slightly too long is grounds for public embarrassment, humiliation and the possibility of having one's future ruined?

Whatever can be said about his getting warning letters and such prior to this incident, I think it is a dumb rule to bar students from exams just because their hair is long because that in turn implies that appearance trumps results and it was worse of the teacher to just cut the kid's hair off like that because of what she threatened to do if he didn't comply. There's also the possibility that this kid will always link exams to that one time when he got made a spectacle out of and I'm sure that can't be anything great either.

Yeah, what kind of lesson are we teaching the leaders of tomorrow, that they are not above the law?
Where will we get our Nixons and Clintons if kids don't learn they can disregard any rule they deem stupid?

If a law is stupid, the voters can work to change it in many ways. But as long as it is in force, they should obey it. Especially in the case of this kind of law, which may be stupid but is not that much of a hardship.

 Digressive story

One day, my sister, who was doing her military service at the time, asked my father, "Drive me to base today please?"
He asked, "Why?"
And she said, "I hear the Military Police are out in force today. They're sure to catch me with my hat off at the bus station."
"So wear your hat?"
"But it's ugly!"