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Toffs to toughs: Why Eton schoolboys are dressing down
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  • Mar 18, 2022
Survey shows teachers unaware equality laws apply to pupils’ hair
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  • Mar 16, 2022
School skirt length rules can be victim-blaming, head teachers are told
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  • Mar 11, 2022
How teachers should dress: The standards you set are the standards you get
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  • Mar 9, 2022
Scotland: Strict uniform policies ‘breach rights of pupils’
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  • Feb 28, 2022
Scots children's commissioner warns strict policies on wearing of school uniform are unlawful
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  • Feb 27, 2022
School should scrap hair rules and let kids embrace their heritage
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  • Jan 26, 2022
Boy, 14, put in isolation after turning up at school with hair in plaits
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  • Dec 7, 2021
Hair is not “just hair” – what can be done about hair discrimination
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  • Nov 1, 2021
More than half of teens have been victims of bullying over their appearance
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  • Oct 17, 2021
Parents still wearing dressing gowns on school run despite plea from headteacher
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  • Oct 4, 2021
Head gives slipper to parents wearing dressing gowns and pyjamas on school run
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  • Oct 4, 2021
School asks parents not to drop kids off in 'inappropriate' dressing gowns
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  • Oct 4, 2021
Newcastle sorry for censuring medical student over ‘short dress’
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  • Sep 9, 2021
School bans girls from wearing PE shorts claiming they’re ‘inappropriate’
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  • Jun 18, 2021
Telling schoolgirls to wear shorts to prevent upskirting ‘fuels victim blaming’
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  • Jun 15, 2021
Ofsted chief warns against victim blaming in ‘modesty’ shorts row
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  • Jun 15, 2021
Ofsted chief warns against 'victim blaming' in primary schools after girls told to wear shorts under their skirts
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  • Jun 15, 2021
Schools are telling girls to wear shorts under skirts to stop 'upskirting'
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  • Jun 15, 2021
More than 100 pupils write protest letter after school bans skirts
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  • Jun 11, 2021
These are the different rules on skirts worn in schools across Wales
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  • Jun 11, 2021
School skirts ban: St Martin's in Caerphilly changes uniform
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  • Jun 10, 2021
Parents' fury as school bans skirts for girls saying they wear them 'too short'
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  • Jun 10, 2021
Parents angry as head bans all skirts because girls wear them 'too short'
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  • Jun 10, 2021
School bans girls from wearing skirts saying they wear them too short
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  • Jun 10, 2021
School introduces ‘modesty shorts’ under skirts for girls as young as four
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  • Jun 7, 2021
School backs down after refusing to let girl with hair loss wear cap to class
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  • May 18, 2021
Afro hair: How pupils are tackling discriminatory uniform policies
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  • Apr 20, 2021
Schoolgirls claim they're forced to kneel while teachers measure length of their skirts
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  • Apr 6, 2021
Turmoil at London school hit by flag and hairstyle row
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  • Mar 30, 2021
Headteacher brands petition for female pupils to wear trousers as part of school uniform 'unacceptable behaviour'
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  • Mar 25, 2021
We mustn't abolish school uniforms – but we should cut kids some slack about how they dress
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  • Mar 22, 2021
House of Lords goes woke! Peer demands 'repressive' school uniforms be scrapped
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  • Mar 19, 2021
Abolish 'repressive' schools uniforms, ministers told
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  • Mar 19, 2021
School that told Muslim girl her skirt was too short admit they were wrong
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  • Mar 17, 2021
Muslim schoolgirl told to wear shorter skirt receives apology as legal action dropped
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  • Mar 16, 2021
School drops legal action after Muslim girl told her skirt was too long
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  • Mar 16, 2021
Podcast 108: Inclusive hair policies + World Afro Day
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  • Mar 14, 2021
Parent condemns barrister over 'stroppy teenager of colour' tweet
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  • Jan 26, 2021
School threatens legal action after Muslim girl told skirt is ‘too long’
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  • Jan 12, 2021
School threatens girl for wearing long skirts
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  • Jan 12, 2021
Muslim schoolgirl feels 'bullied' after school sent her home for wearing a skirt that was 'too long'
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  • Jan 11, 2021
Sutton High School first to sign black hairstyles pledge
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  • Dec 18, 2020
Teenage fears over appearance linked to depression in girls and boys
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  • Dec 8, 2020
School scraps ‘racist’ hair rules as they’re influenced by ‘white supremacy’
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  • Mar 2, 2020
What next for schools after hair discrimination case?
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  • Feb 21, 2020
Girl, 18, paid out £8,500 after school repeatedly sent her home over Afro hair
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  • Feb 12, 2020
Pupil repeatedly sent home from school over afro hair wins £8,500 payout
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  • Feb 7, 2020
Mother urges schools to stop forcing boys to cut long hair as it is 'discriminatory’
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  • Jan 14, 2020
Mum might declare son non-binary so he can keep famous hair at secondary school
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  • Jan 14, 2020
‘Good-looking’ pupils perform better in school, research finds
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  • Nov 3, 2019
When did airbrushing your child's school photo become a thing?
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  • Oct 29, 2019
How schools can support a child who looks different
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  • Oct 26, 2019
Mum claims daughter sent home from school six times for skirt being too short
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  • Sep 20, 2019
Pupils put in isolation at school in Aberdare for wearing fake tan and too short skirts
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  • Sep 13, 2019
London school reverses decision to ban 'cornrows' after widespread backlash
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  • Sep 13, 2019
How can schools improve attitudes to hair? (podcast)
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  • Sep 12, 2019
Back to school: how the new term is shaking up fashion
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  • Sep 6, 2019
'Back to school' make-up class cancelled after backlash
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  • Aug 6, 2019
‘Back to school’ make-up class for 12-year-olds in John Lewis store cancelled amid backlash
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  • Aug 6, 2019
Hair discrimination is intertwined with racism. Let's follow California, and ban it
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  • Jul 8, 2019
Schools offered resources to discuss disfigurement with pupils
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  • May 22, 2019
White teachers like me should not be policing black pupils’ hair | Holly Rigby
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  • May 22, 2019
Two-thirds of young people worry about online appearance
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  • May 14, 2019
School bans fake tans after pupils turn up ‘looking orange and green’ after half-term
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  • Feb 25, 2019
Secondary school confiscates children's coats at the gates in new uniform crackdown
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  • Jan 29, 2019
'Short hair', suggests some don’t care!
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  • Jan 27, 2019
Until school hair policies take race into account, they remain tools of white oppression
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  • Jan 23, 2019
Schools right to clamp down on uniform policy, says Education Secretary
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  • Jan 21, 2019
Pupil, 15, thrown out of class and made to face wall over short hair mum says is ‘standard cut for black boy’
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  • Oct 25, 2018
Mum claims deputy head told girls knee-length skirts were only OK on 'slender' pupils
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  • Oct 2, 2018
Schoolboy, nine, 'humiliated' in front of classmates after 'being told to get hair cut during assembly'
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  • Sep 17, 2018
Mum’s fury after her son, 13, is put in isolation for his ‘extreme haircut’
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  • Sep 16, 2018
Mum who took Fulham School to court over her son's dreadlocks says it was never just about winning
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  • Sep 13, 2018
Boy, 12, wins legal battle against school over dreadlocks that teachers ordered him to cut off
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  • Sep 13, 2018
Young Rastafarian boy, 12, wins racial discrimination case against Church of England school that wanted him to shave off his dreadlocks or remain in isolation
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  • Sep 13, 2018
Schools may no longer ban pupils from having dreadlocks, after Rastafarian boy has ban overturned
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  • Sep 12, 2018
Dreadlocks ban school backs down after court action threat
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  • Sep 12, 2018
Dad slams school after son, 12, put in 'isolation' over JD Sports 'shoes'
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  • Sep 12, 2018
Wales: Students 'locked away' for wearing school shoes from Tesco - because they looked like 'going out' footwear
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  • Sep 11, 2018
Haircut and uniform violations being punished by schools as severely as drug and weapons, MPs warn
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  • Jul 25, 2018
Schoolboy, 15, sent home 'for wearing bra as part of protest at teacher's treatment of girl'
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  • Jul 12, 2018
Mum removes sons from school after teachers 'breach their human rights' putting them in isolation because of haircuts
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  • Jun 21, 2018
Mother's fury after her altar boy son, 14, is sent home from school over haircut he got to be smart for church
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  • May 24, 2018
'Give lessons on appearance-related bullying'
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  • May 23, 2018
'Colourful socks or kinky boots': what not to wear to get ahead in law
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  • Apr 27, 2018
Trainee barristers could lose marks in exams for wearing short skirts or 'kinky boots'
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  • Apr 17, 2018
Law students will have points docked for short skirts
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  • Apr 17, 2018
Trainee barristers told they will be marked down for wearing short skirts
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  • Apr 16, 2018
Germany: Headscarf ban - Critics call for Merkel to deliver facts
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  • Apr 11, 2018
School offers to buy suitable shoes for pupils after sending 'up to 30' home for wrong footwear
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  • Mar 20, 2018
School that banned ‘Meet Me At McDonald’s’ haircut praised for boosting pupils’ behaviour by education watchdog
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  • Mar 15, 2018
Ofsted backs school that banned 'meet me at McDonald's' haircut
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  • Mar 13, 2018
School uniform: Headteacher on what boys and girls wear
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  • Mar 6, 2018
New ‘meet me at McDonalds’ hairstyle is causing classroom chaos
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  • Feb 22, 2018
Great Yarmouth Charter Academy bans 'McDonald's' hairstyle
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  • Feb 21, 2018
Ministers too politically correct to ban hijabs in schools, says ex-Ofsted boss
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  • Feb 15, 2018
Hijabs have not been banned in primary schools as MPs fear being politically incorrect, claims ex-chief inspector of schools
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  • Feb 15, 2018
Government must implement official hijabs policy in schools, former Ofsted boss says
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  • Feb 15, 2018
Ofsted inspectors enter hijab row school
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  • Jan 31, 2018
St Stephen's head Neena Lall likened to Hitler in spoof video as row over hijab ban escalates
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  • Jan 29, 2018
Selfies 'worse for children than bullying' because photos make teenagers question their body and appearance
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  • Jan 25, 2018
Top primary school reverses hijab ban after major backlash sees chair of governors resign
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  • Jan 21, 2018
East London primary school backs down over hijab ban
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  • Jan 19, 2018
London primary school 'bans hijab for girls under 8'
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  • Jan 15, 2018
Britain's top state primary school bans Hijab for under-eights and calls for UK-wide rule
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  • Jan 15, 2018
Britain's top primary school bans hijabs for girls under eight
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  • Jan 14, 2018
Britain’s best state primary school, St Stephen’s in Newham, bans hijabs for girls under eight and outlaws fasting on school grounds
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  • Jan 14, 2018
France: School run Muslim mums ‘should be banned from wearing headscarf’ claims minister
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  • Dec 11, 2017
Gowns R Us: The endless fascination of academic dress
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  • Dec 5, 2017
Muslim student says she was ordered to remove headscarf at McDonald's
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  • Dec 1, 2017
How schools can support young people with a disfigurement
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  • Dec 1, 2017
Facial disfigurement charity releases free resources for schools
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  • Dec 1, 2017
Hijabs are none of Ofsted’s business
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  • Nov 29, 2017
Ofsted: ‘We won’t single out Muslim pupils for wearing the hijab’
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  • Nov 29, 2017
School's 'successful shoes' Facebook sparks anger
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  • Nov 28, 2017
'They called me names like Scarface, Joker, Buttface'
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  • Nov 28, 2017
Oxford votes to ban elite gowns at debates
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  • Nov 15, 2017
Heads need to get over their obsession with school uniform
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  • Oct 23, 2017
Secondary school headteacher who sent home nearly 90 pupils for wearing incorrect uniform refuses to 'lower his standards'
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  • Sep 21, 2017
'No regrets': Headteacher stands by decision to send home pupils with wrong school uniform every day this week
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  • Sep 20, 2017
Teachers to visit pupils' homes and deliver free uniforms after parents left furious over "inappropriate" school uniform row
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  • Sep 18, 2017
Do we really have to be so strict about school uniform?
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  • Sep 18, 2017
Row as school demands Rastafarian boy cut off dreadlocks as part of uniform policy
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  • Sep 14, 2017
Rastafarian mum slams school for 'religious discrimination' after teachers order son to cut dreadlocks or face suspension
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  • Sep 14, 2017
'Ridiculous!' Outrage over uniform rules 'that sees kids sent home over wrong material'
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  • Sep 7, 2017
Back to school: Third of girls find personal appearance one of their biggest worries after summer holidays
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  • Sep 4, 2017

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