Talk about an extreme reaction.
An assistant principal at a New York high school shaved a student’s head in front of his classmates because he decided it violated the dress code, local news station WHAM reported.
Lucus Hull, 17, got a faux-hawk haircut, with his hair trimmed short on the sides with a little bit of length left on top. A full mohawk haircut violates the school’s dress code policy, so Hull told ABC that he asked permission before he got the cut. According to him, the assistant principal told Hull he’d have to see the cut to decide if a “faux-hawk” violated the policy.
The day after he got the cut, he went to school and that’s where to trouble began.
An announcement came in over the speakers of school and Hull was called to the cafeteria and told that the assistant principal did not like his hair.
“He just said you have the choice to either go home or get it cut,” Hull told WHAM. He said he didn’t feel like he had much of a choice, so the assistant principal went and got clippers from his office. The principal buzzed off all of his hair in front of the senior class. While faux hawks aren’t allowed, apparently the skinhead look is ok.
“Just having people watch and have that done to you,” he said. “It kind of felt humiliating and inhumane and you know, it kind of crushed my spirits for the day.”
Notre Dame High School in Batavia, New York, where the incident took place, did not issue anything more than a verbal apology.
“The assistant principal has since apologized to the student, his parents, and the school community for his error in judgment in cutting the student’s hair in the student’s homeroom before discussing the violation with the student’s parents,” school officials said in a statement to WHAM.
Watch the ABC news story below:
