Gomao Central Member of Parliament, Kwame Asare Obeng known popularly as A Plus has urged parents who do not want to cut the hair of their children to take them to private schools.
He holds the view that the laws have been made and cannot be changed to suit a select few.
Therefore, whoever has challenges with the existing rules and regulations for public senior high schools can take the easy way out.
A Plus who made this known in a post shared via social media said “Don’t cut ur kids hair. That nonsense must stop. Take ur kids to GIS. U can’t pay GIS? Cut the “nonsense” hair and go for free“.
Education Minister, Haruna Iddrisu, while speaking at Mawuli school, reiterated that government will not allow long hair in senior high schools.
“There is an ongoing debate on social media about haircuts and the size and length of hair in secondary school. We will not tolerate it today; we will not tolerate it tomorrow in so long as we are moulding character. If we give in to hair today, tomorrow it will be shoes, and the next day it will be the way they dress.
Therefore, as part of our disciplinary measures, headmasters and GES, you are therefore empowered to take full control of how students behave on your campuses. Anybody who thinks your child will walk into any institution of learning as if that child forgive my words—were to attend a beauty contest, the school environment is not for that purpose and is not cut for that purpose and will not tolerate that as an institution,” he stated.
This has generated debates on social media with cases made for female students to keep their long hair.
