3 girls who shaved head bald for charity told to wear wigs

[Mawar]

Have been thinking about this issue for quite awhile. Still cannot recognize if shaving one’s hair is the best way to show support or raise awareness. I know it’s to highlight the chemo survivor’s experience, but I still wonder. If it’s for religious purposes, I can accept. It’s just me I guess.


Back to the principal and the school’s stand. If the students agreed to don wigs, they should try to hold up their side of the bargain. Don’t make the school and principal look bad, it’s not as if the latter didn’t support the original cause. That’s a different issue. Long hair, short hair, no hair … refer to school’s position please. Else junk the uniform altogether.

[concern2]

:yikes: Then go bald for what?


Seriously, the principal thinks it is a fad to go bald or fears that it will become a fad amongst students this age? It takes great courage for girls to go totally bald, and I have contemplated, but never had to courage to do it.

[3Boys]

Mawar:

Have been thinking about this issue for quite awhile. Still cannot recognize if shaving one's hair is the best way to show support or raise awareness. I know it's to highlight the chemo survivor's experience, but I still wonder. If it's for religious purposes, I can accept. It's just me I guess.


Back to the principal and the school's stand. If the students agreed to don wigs, they should try to hold up their side of the bargain. Don't make the school and principal look bad, it's not as if the latter didn't support the original cause. That's a different issue. Long hair, short hair, no hair ... refer to school's position please. Else junk the uniform altogether.

Agreed.

Why couldn't they just have cut to a short bob? If you ask me it was a deliberate ploy on the part of the students.

[concern2]

3Boys:

Mawar:

Have been thinking about this issue for quite awhile. Still cannot recognize if shaving one's hair is the best way to show support or raise awareness. I know it's to highlight the chemo survivor's experience, but I still wonder. If it's for religious purposes, I can accept. It's just me I guess.


Back to the principal and the school's stand. If the students agreed to don wigs, they should try to hold up their side of the bargain. Don't make the school and principal look bad, it's not as if the latter didn't support the original cause. That's a different issue. Long hair, short hair, no hair ... refer to school's position please. Else junk the uniform altogether.

Agreed.

Why couldn't they just have cut to a short bob? If you ask me it was a deliberate ploy on the part of the students.

Maybe later they realized wearing wigs was a greater pain than going bald? Hmm, I suppose either way, they will have to learn what the cancer patients have to endure...

[3Boys]

concern2:

3Boys:

Agreed.

Why couldn't they just have cut to a short bob? If you ask me it was a deliberate ploy on the part of the students.

Maybe later they realized wearing wigs was a greater pain than going bald? Hmm, I suppose either way, they will have to learn what the cancer patients have to endure...

Haha! That's one way to look at it!

It may not be a fad.....

HOWEVER, there will be some students who will use this as a way of showing rebellion against authority. Principal say cannot, so I find some way to undermine her authority and make her look foolish.

Should not be stood for.

[tankee]

I agree that promise must be kept and wearing a wig is also experiencing what cancer patients have to endure.


But i fails to see the point on … Bald = unfeminine or unladylike. I have seen some very feminine bald ladies.

[jtoh]

Hair for Hope is to raise awareness for cancer sufferers. I think it's a brave move by the girls to shave their heads to raise funds for Children's Cancer Foundation. Making the girls don wigs is going against the objective of Hair for Hope, which is that \"every shaven head is an understanding by the individual of the ordeals that a child with cancer is subjected to.\" http://www.hairforhope.org.sg/


But as the girls have agreed to the condition, they should uphold their end of the bargain. However, I do not agree with the Principal's reason, that if she allows this one time, some St Margaret's girls will take advantage of the situation to come to school in punk bald fashion. Surely one can distinguish between an altruistic move and an attempt at trying to break the school rules.

If the school is so against an uprising of bald heads, then perhaps they could have suggested alternative means to which the girls could have shown their support to CCF without shaving their heads. Raise funds and create awareness of the cause via other means. The girls could still have achieved their objective and the school would not need to worry about setting a precedent of punk heads in school.

[tankee]

Maybe that’s why they did not wear wig. Now it is covered in the newspaper and widely discussed in forums, the awareness level is definitely rise.

[ammonite]

The students should keep to their promises. But the principal missed a very valuable teaching moment and revealed her prejudices. Even if the girls did that out of rebellion, a savvier leader will take the chance to reframe it in a positive light and turn the situation around.


But seriously...wear a wig after shaving hair to show support... :skeptical: kinda defeats the original purpose doesn't it?