My Facebook newsfeed today is flooded with comments about the news of a school principal at St Margaret Secondary School who asked three of her female students to wear a wig to cover their bald statement in their support for Children's Cancer Foundation.
According to the story in Straits Times, the principal Marion Tan insisted that the three girls kept to their agreement to wear a wig when they returned to school bald. The girls didn't wear their wigs on Monday and the principal was worried about school image than anything else.
Wrote The Straits Times,
The school's rules do not allow "punk, unfeminine or sloppy hairstyles". Said principal Marion Tan: "It's very clear in our mission: it's about their turnout as a young lady."
The principal would had have a better case if she focused on the girls breaking their agreement than the unbecoming of being a young lady. Bertha Henson also agrees.
Wrote Bertha for The Breakfast Network,
She would have done better to keep to the issue of broken promises. Whatever promise has been made, must be kept, as one parent of the five said.
That’s a good principle to live by and to reinforce in our young people.
The whole incident is an example of the unease and stereotype that the Children's Cancer Foundation is trying to stop by getting friends and family to go bald so that children who go bald because of cancer treatment do not feel out place.
The three students should be encourage for their bravery to go bald as one can easily understand how difficult it is for a teenage girl to shave off her locks in support for a worthy cause. This is their real education in their turnout as a young lady.
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