Disciplinary action master sends 7 students to barber for hair cut at his own expense!

Disciplinary action master sends 7 students to barber for hair cut at his own expense!

Teacher of a leading school in Anuradhapura has taken steps to give a haircut to 7 male school students who had attended school with long hair in a manner which did not suit school children last morning (22).

The said students who were in the ordinary level had come to school with very long hair and with

various hairstyles and on that occasion they had been noticed by school prefects who were attending to disciplinary matters and had handed the 7 students concerned to a young teacher who was keeping a strict supervision on discipline. When this teacher had inquired as to the reason why they had not cut their hair, he had come to understand that they were not the type of children who obeyed their parents and then had proceeded to contact the father of a certain student studying in the same school by telephone and having got down a jeep and as a next course of action he had escorted the students to a barber salon in Anuradhapura town and had got their hair cut.

Though the teacher had instructed the barber to cut their hair short, the teacher who observed that they were making an influence on the barber to cut their hair according to the style they wanted had immediately told the barber to cut their hair very short. In the process, what the 7 students had told was, "Sir, those prefects who got hold of us too have long hair; so instruct them also to come to school after a hair cut". The teacher had then responded saying, "Yes, I noticed that they also had long hair ... so I gave instructions to them also not to come to school wearing long hair and to have a hair cut".

The teacher concerned has had to foot a bill of Rs. thousand and fifty and he had further taken steps even to provide a snack with a cup of milk tea to the father who provided transport to the 7 students and himself.