Sent Home for Dyeing Hair Green

[DeclinetoState]

Educator Sent Home for Dyeing Hair Green

Lower Richland High (WLTX) -- A 9th-Grade Mentor who works at Lower Richland High School was sent home Monday morning, because he says the school didn't like the color he dyed his hair.

Michael Rice says Lower Richland High School's principal called the mentor into his office shortly after the first block of the day ended.

Rice says Principal Marvin Byers told him his green hair color was "over the top." The mentor says he wore his hair colored with the Luck of the Irish in honor of St. Patrick's Day, March 17th. Rice says he just wanted to give fellow staff members and students a good-natured laugh.

"I had a lot of people saying, 'Wow, I can't believe you're getting sent home,'" Rice say, "But no one had anything negative to say."

Karen York, Director of Communications for Richland School District One, says that the decision to ask Rice to change his clothes was that of the principal's. She says if Byers felt Rice was not dressed professionally, that he was fully in his right to ask Rice to leave. She said no one else at the school wore costumes or dyed their hair.
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[LivingDeadGirl]

Karen York, Director of Communications for Richland School District One, says that the decision to ask Rice to change his clothes was that of the principal's. She says if Byers felt Rice was not dressed professionally, that he was fully in his right to ask Rice to leave. She said no one else at the school wore costumes or dyed their hair. - from article

So was he sent home because of his hair, or a costume? If he had not died his hair but wore a costume would he still be sent home? Sounds like it was more than just dying his hair green.

[PrezLeefun]

I think the school overreacted.... have some fun.

[LivingDeadGirl]

I am sure like any employer, they have a dress code to follow. If he violated the dress code, then they reacted appropriately. If I walked into work with green hair and in a costume, I too would be sent home. The schools around here have dress codes that hold the teachers to a certain standard of dress that is "business casual" and hair colors must be "natural"

[DeclinetoState]

I think he also wore a green costume. The hair was only part of it.

[DesertFox]

Dude seems to have had good intentions, but they almost certainly clashed with other things going on at the school. For instance, when a school is dealing with gang colors, it's counterproductive for a teacher to go off on this sort of tangent.

We don't have enough information to judge, but I'd bet a dollar to a donut that that's just what's going down here.

Even if the dude wired it with the prince before St Pat's Day, you're going to run into people who then want to celebrate Italian Day, and then others who want Polish Day, then Serb Day, then Korean Day, then Kenyan Day, on and on and on, and it gets out of hand.