Tango’d
Coombeshead College in Newton Abbot has banned female students aged 9-13 from wearing makeup, says an article in this week’s Mid-Devon Advertiser.
Apparently the girls were being likened to Oompa-Loompas from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and the principal said the taunting had to stop.
Leaving aside that
1) Presumably this means that all boys and older girls are still free to dress up as Oompa-Loompas for school, and
2) Maybe a 9-year-old at secondary school needs some body paint to cover to distract from her youth and genius, and
3) Make-up for school is fine (which was different in my day, said with a Daily Mail scowl) as long as it’s the right sort of make-up and complies with the tribal colours (Oompa-Loompas and L’Oreal listen up).
the real question is:
Why are the bullied being punished, and not the bullies?
An early lesson in life.
Posted by Edgy
July 11th, 2006
