“Cut your hair otherwise you will not be allowed to sit at the annual examinations,” warned the cross teacher. The junior class student was scared of this strict warning. He persuaded his parents to be prompt in taking him to a saloon. His trepidation over disregarding the teacher’s instructions was more a niggling point than learning a book lesson. However, the little boy’s tension was released after the haircut.
Long hair was never acceptable at the school in any manner. It was a proven tradition that extreme hairstyles were never endured by educational institutions. What was commonly acceptable were the hairstyles basically akin to the military haircuts that are often short, easy to style, and simple to maintain.
Face shape and hair shape determine our choice among hairstyles like induction cut, burr cut, regulation cut, buzz cut, crew cut, brush cut, high & tight, high and tight recon, military fade, high skin fade, low fade, and military undercut are practised by the barber. Besides there were also police cut hairstyle, business cut hairstyle, bus cut hairstyle and African cut, Ivy League haircut hairstyle.
Why do we curse our restriction to stick to short hair? Even in foreign countries this problem stands solved through guidelines insisting on the school or the working place or another place in sporting short hair. One 18-year-old girl from London said she was once sent back home from her working place (a cloth shop) with the strict warning of taking out the braids she had put on.
The employer reminded her that this was not the approved look. Her hair in an afro style was also forbidden describing it as distracting. Another female said her school in the United Kingdom banned extreme hairstyles. They might be accepting cornrows, she thought. The New York City Commission on Human Rights in its guidelines disallows targeting people on the basis of their hairstyles, classing it as racist discrimination.
The procedure protects the rights of New Yorkers in schools, workplaces and public places. Hairstyles like locs (a hairstyle where the hair that one would normally comb or shed locks on itself, creating rope like strands), afros (a hairstyle worn naturally outward by people with lengthy or even medium length kinky hair texture or specifically styled in such a fashion by individuals with naturally curly or straight hair) and cornrows (traditional African styles in which the hair is braided very close to the scalp using an underhand upward motion to produce a continuous raised row) have no place in the defined rules. We find shades of such hairstyles at the Ardh Kumbh Mela on the confluence of three rivers in Allahabad.
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