Many schools have a rule of having natural hair colors and not dyed. This is because the school wants to identify students from the outside if any students are missing from class or if there is an emergency.
The color of someone’s hair can be very distinctive of their race or ethnicity, so they must be identifiable, especially in emergencies such as fire drills, earthquakes, etc.
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Why do schools not allow colored hair?
1. Natural hair color can sometimes be ambiguous
The first significant problem is that there is no single way to have natural hair color. Natural hair colors change from person to person and from time to time, but the dye that the person uses may be very hard to distinguish from their natural hair color.
The dye used on clothes, like baby blue and purple, can also stain the skin and give people a different colored look. Many people are born with dark blond or brown hair, and they can dye their hair brightly colored, but it still appears blonde or brown when they go outside their home because they don’t know how to take care of their skin.
2. It can be tough to distinguish between natural hair colors and dyed hair colors.
Colored hair is tough to distinguish with teenagers because many natural hair colors today are close to the color of their skin.
Some people may have brown eyes but yellow, red, or green skin tones, and people may not know how to properly use skin tone differentiating dye.
3. Natural Hair color is better to have on uniforms than dyed hair colors
Locks of natural hair are often used for uniforms because it can sometimes take a long time for both sides of the waves to grow out the same length, making the lock look messy in a short period if you wait too long to cut it fast enough for the uniform requirements.
4. Natural hair colors are more durable
Natural hair colors last longer, and the life of the lock lasts longer than just dying it. Dyeing your hair can cause it to fall out in a brief period.
Still, if you have naturally brown or black hair, you can not ever wholly bleach your hair which means that you can dye your locks without worrying about them falling out, which is often the case when wearing colorful dyed hair colors.
5. Natural hair colors can be used to symbolize racial issues
Specific hair colors are not allowed in school because they may symbolize racism, which the government or any other organization does not permit. Wearing bright red hair could promote a Nazi or KKK message, which is not what the school wants to be associated with.
6. Dyeing hair can cause panic from onlookers
If someone sees someone with very different colored locks, they may think that something terrible has happened to them and proceed to call the police for help, which would be a waste of time for everyone involved if there was no actual problem.
7. Dyeing hair causes many problems for schools
The school will have to get a new set of locks for every student with dyed hair. If they have too many dyeing students, then they may not have enough money with the budget to support their locks and uniforms if all of their students continue to dye their hair without waiting long enough before getting the safety cut out or going back to its original color.
8. Students may dye their hair and then not care for it properly
If a student dyed their hair a particular color, they could potentially choose a specific color and then not replace the dye to give it its original color.
This could cause students to spend all their money on dye, lock accessories, and other things related to dying because they don’t need any other things they would typically need.
9. School uniforms are typically easy to spot in an emergency, such as after a fire or earthquake
In an emergency, students may make decisions they wouldn’t usually make if they were allowed to have colored hair.
Many students with colored hair may underestimate the importance of school uniforms in an emergency because it isn’t that big of an issue if they are separated from the rest of their classes.
Still, it can be essential if they try to find their friends or family members in a crowd where everyone is wearing the same colored uniforms.
10. Unnatural hair colors like green, blue, and purple make it harder for students to read books inside the class
Studies have shown that students who read inside the class for 40 minutes a day, five days a week, have higher chances of being able to solve problem-based questions on tests, and it is essential that they can read their books while they are in class so that they can get the most out of their education.
11. Natural hair colors last longer than dyed ones
Dye wears out and fades away in many cases, but natural locks can stay on you for many years, even after dying, if maintained with care from the owner.
Dying locks is much easier than taking care of them, showing that natural hair colors are much more durable.
12. Natural hair colors make identifying individuals in class and around the school more accessible
At the same time, dyed locks can be hard to see against certain skin tones, which may cause people to get lost or confused in different areas of the school if they have colored locks.
Conclusion
School officials should not ban colored hair from preventing the disadvantages of being excluded from school because if you choose to dye your hair, it is your choice, and you might regret it later on in life. Please research and know the cons of dying your locks before choosing to dye them. Knowing all the facts about a subject is always better before finalizing a decision.
It is also essential for students to not care about what their peers think no matter how many people are against an idea because it doesn’t matter if everyone else does something bad or wrong; that does not make it right for you unless you want to be negatively judged yourself.
