Poppy Leigh, 13, showed up to school on Thursday with a mile-high hairdo full of Christmas cheer — only to be told she needed to take it down or go home. The eighth-grader wrapped her hair around an empty water bottle and then strung in Christmas lights.
The school rang Poppy’s mother to tell her they didn’t find her daughter’s hairstyle appropriate. “She just wanted to make things a bit more exciting,” Poppy’s mother, Christie, said. “It’s just a bit of fun and Christmas cheer” before Poppy goes on Christmas break Friday, says the mom of three, adding, “I am quite upset.” “Poppy is always messing around with her hair. She walked in this morning and said ‘Mum, can I do my hair like this for school? It looks like a Christmas tree,’ ” says Christie. “She wrapped her hair around an empty bottle of Volvic water and then she asked me to put the lights in for her.” The girl’s hair usually falls all the way down her back. “Her hair is usually down to her bottom. She refuses to let me cut it,” says Christie.
Principal Kevin Green insists the hairdo was inappropriate, and he had no choice but to tell the girl to take it out. “The Academy has the highest of expectations around uniform and teaching and learning, and all through this week, staff and students have remained focused on learning,” he said.
Poppy, whom the principal calls a “wonderful student”, ultimately took out her holiday hair instead of going home. Despite disciplining her, though, even the principal had to admit that the hair was fun. “It was a remarkably creative hairstyle,” says Green.
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