By: Ethan Tong

Hairstyles and uniforms are beginning to cause friction at school. A ninth grader at Melbourne’s Mordialloc College was refused from class over his brightly colored hair. “I want kids in high school to feel like their voices are heard and matter,” the student said. “I have been told to study in the senior school office until I get my hair fixed. It’s really hard to study there.” He continued, “I think if there is a reason for it, it should be okay to have coloured hair.”

The school in Melbourne Mordialloc College started a policy that “non-natural hairstyles” aren’t permitted. One student at Officer Secondary College sent 100 students and was sent to the library for wearing plain pants instead of the school’s logo pants.

A student in year twelve, Piper, 17, said that her school had been clumsy on its new uniforms policy called RE SET which started on Wednesday. “There are a lot of families doing it tough and visiting food banks,” she said. “It is more than reasonable to buy cheaper alternatives from shops such as Kmart as long as they are within the school color.”