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Has Your Child Got A Haircut Like This? Watch Out, Schools Are Taking Action

Two schoolboys have been kicked out of class because of their side parting haircuts.

Kieran Roberts, 12, and his friend Dan Scrawley, 13, were hauled out of the classroom and taught in isolation because their hairstyles didn’t meet school policy.

The Year 8 pupils got the trendy TOWIE-style haircuts, with their heads shaved high up the sides, at the weekend, but were taken out of lessons on Monday morning at Sir John Hunt Community Sports College in Plymouth, Devon.

After they were removed from class and taught in isolation, their families were given permission to take them home at about midday.

(Picture: Dan Scrawley, 13, from Plymouth, Devon, with his aunt Chrissy Goodwin)

Their families insist the boys’ haircuts comply with school rules.

Keiran’s dad William, 50, said: “Kieran has had that hairstyle ever since the beginning of Year 7 at that school.

“Isolation means they aren’t allowed break times or out at lunch times or allowed to mix with the general population of the school.

“When they go to lunch they’ve got to sit at a table away from all of the other children - it’s an absolute joke.

“When he is in isolation, Kieran also misses out on all of his lessons and doesn’t get any help if he is struggling and he does need it.

“Somewhere along the line somebody has to stand their ground on this.

“As soon as his hair gets long again I will take him and get the same haircut.”

However, Dan had his haircut done without seeking permission from his aunt, Chrissy Goodwin, 57, who is his legal guardian.

She said: “My main point is that to take him on holiday during term time you can get a fine but you can easily just put a parting in his hair and get him sent home and go off on a two-week holiday while it’s growing.

“He decided to have the line put into his parting and I punished him at the weekend by taking his phone off him so I felt he had already been punished.”

On its website, the school states that “unusual hairstyles” and “shaven heads below grade 2” are not permitted. The school declined to comment.

(Pictures: SWNS)