Ear Stretching
My secondary school was a right laugh, best years of my life.
In year 10 i got my left ear pierced and set about stretching the piercing as large as i could.
My parents were cool with it aslong as i wasn't harming myself.
So anyway after a good year my ear is stretched to around 12mm and i had put the taper in to stretch to 14mm.
I had fairly longish hair think.. er, emo..
we'll keep that quiet cos i wasn't an emo i was just trying to score points with the fit emo chicks i hung around with.. ( it worked )
Anyway so i shaved my head, and was promptly spotted by a senior teacher, lectured and sent to the headmaster's office where he lectured me again, then made me sit down the corridor his office was on for the rest of his day.
He then phoned my dad to tell him how bad i had acted.
(On being told to remove my plug, i told them in the most polite way, i was to do no such thing and there was nothing against stretched piercing in the code of conduct)

I think i confused them so they got even more angry.
Anyway my parents told him to piss off because they were happy with how their child chooses to look.
They kept on and tried to get my parents to come to meetings i was instructed by said parents to tell them to piss off, so i did, and i was told i was not to leave the corridor untill i removed my plug.
(It wouldn't have mattered if i did remove it, it was the principal!)
cue two weeks of no lessons just sitting there bored, in the end i took it out so i could see my friends.
Long story short, the battle raged on untill i left last year, when at the prom the headmaster came up to me shook my hand and complimented my on the size of my plug (it had steadily grown)

yay me 1 school 0 woo
(Bludfoot rushing out since, Fri 30 Jan 2009, 1:23, 5 replies)

Yes, but...
... now you have a ginormous hole in your ear. Frankly, I'm confused as to whether your school had a headmaster or a principal.
(James Cushtie, Fri 30 Jan 2009, 1:27, closed)

Good for you
Standing up for your right to be you!

My Daughter likes to dye her hair and I have no problem with that. Unfortunately her school did and I was called in to 'talk about it'.

I asked how her hair colour affected her ability to learn or how it could be construed as disruptive. Seeing as how the school dress code made no mention of hair colour, they backed down.

'Suitable hair colour' has now appeared in the school dress code.

Bugger!
(MadBouncyDog Barking at the moon since, Sat 31 Jan 2009, 13:54, closed)

yeah but,...
you took it out so you could see your friends, so you lost, AND you have a hideous big hole in your ear that will get all the more hideous as you grow old.

School 1 you 0
(Mr.Dog was in love again on, Mon 2 Feb 2009, 21:05, closed)

Oh dear...
I think your school won really.

PS. Sorry to hear about the hole in your ear.
(aroe_m0rre, Tue 3 Feb 2009, 11:32, closed)

.
I'm quite fond of my hole thank you..
and it's at a size where it'll shrink when i want to get shot of it
so shh
(Bludfoot rushing out since, Wed 4 Feb 2009, 20:19, closed)