The colour I’m in

There’s a 17 year old who catches the same bus with me everyday.

She is a sweet girl who by all accounts I can tell doesn’t have many friends and struggles to fit into the “crowd”.

Recently she coloured her brown hair a shade into mahogany. It looked lovely and she appeared to be so much more confident. It was a natural look and didn’t look dyed unless you knew her.

Well. Today she turned up at the bus stop with her mahogany colour gone, stripped out and her hair the colour of recently stripped hair and quite straw like.

I asked her what the heck happened and she told me..

Her school had put her in isolation the past week and she wasn’t allowed to be in the classroom or amongst her peers unless she stripped her hair.

Basically bullying her into submission.

I’m pretty disgusted because Academy schools seem to get away with this BS yet their school mottos will be about respecting dignity and individuality blah blah blah.

What they do is in fact bully young people into submission and don’t respect individuality or uniqueness.

I feel for her because I know she struggles already with her confidence and she now has to walk around like this.

I asked her today to study how many teachers at the school dye their hair and cover their greys.

Then let’s question their behaviours via Ofsted and ask why teachers are allowed to do this and themselves aren’t excluded.

Normal schools value individual people and don’t bully. Normal schools don’t force young people into isolation to create an image.

Credits:-

Frida dress from LsR Moda at the Designer Showcase

Cats Compound glasses from Haysuriza at the Designer Showcase

Gem eyes  from Amara Beauty

Aoi Si eyeshadow from Dulce Secrets at the Designer Showcase

Oline lipstick from A R T E

Charlotte  hair from Analog Dog

Catya bento head from CATWA

Angel shape for the Catya head LizBitz

Lara mesh body Maitreya

Edie  skin in 04 from  Amara Beauty