F2F Class Notes (Lily)[R/S]

Dyed Hair

An 18-year-old girl in Japan is suing her local government after her school told her to dye her hair black. The third-year student attended a high school in the city of Habikino, just east of Osaka. Even though she had naturally brown hair, the school repeatedly told her to dye it black. She said she had to dye her hair black to follow the school’s rules. Japan’s ‘Mainichi’ newspaper reported that school staff started telling the girl to dye her hair every one to two weeks. In her second year, this changed to once every four days. The student’s mother said her daughter eventually developed a rash on her scalp and that her hair became badly damaged. The girl also suffered from stress throughout her three years at high school.

The student is suing the local government for $20,000 in damages. She told the court on October 27th that the school bullied her for three years to dye her hair. She said that the school would not accept her hair was naturally brown. She was banned from school trips and school festivals because of her brown hair. The girl told the court that teachers said things to her in front of the class that caused great embarrassment to her. This caused her psychological damage. She said that a teacher told her that she should not come to school if she didn’t dye her hair. The girl said that she was so stressed one day that she collapsed and had to be taken to hospital by ambulance.

This article didn’t explain why the school require that girl dye her hair. I don’t think there’s only one girl she had brown hair. Maybe there are more girls/boys have the problem. If I were her, I would ask the school to give a reason. If I dye my hair, it changed to brown quickly, which damaged my scalp, I will ask the doctor to provide something to proof my hair is natual color. She didn’t need to follow the school’s unreasonable request.

This article didn’t explain why the school required that girl to dye her hair. I don’t think there’s only one girl who had brown hair. Maybe there were more girls/boys with the same issue. If I were her, I would ask the school to for justification. If I dye my hair and it changes to brown quickly and damages my scalp, I will ask the doctor to provide something to proof of my natural hair color. She didn’t need to follow the unreasonable demand of the school. 

Pronunciation

naturally= nah trolly

court= cort

scalp= s galp

***in English, sc = sg sound

ex: scout= s gout

scorn= s gorn

scallop= s gallup

screw= s grew

Vocabulary

1. rash= a lot of small red dots on the skin

ex: I’ve got an itchy rash all over my chest.

2. scalp= the skin on the top of a person’s head where hair usually grows:

ex: itchy/oily/dry scalp