Teacher cuts pupil's hair, mum files police report

Hair rules are in the same category as uniform rules. In Asia usually every school (both public or private) requires you to wear uniforms. It's the whole school spirit and togetherness thing. If you look bad you reflect badly on your school. Think of how bad it would look in an assembly (which we had every single day) where everyone's standing in neat rows and columns and someone has a different hair style.

...I think an army of people who look exactly the same is far worse than a group of unique individuals.

I understand CHINA doing this because they're communist but it shouldn't be standard practice anyway else.