Anonymous wrote:I never thought about this until now and I have a son with intentional, styled facial hair (vs. overslept and didn’t have time to shave facial hair). He attends either maret, st albans or sidwell* and no one in authority has ever brought up his facial hair.

I think we all intuitively know GDS wouldn’t have physical appearance policies, save for a prohibition on certain message t-shirts.

I know Sidwell banned all “Washington Redskins” gear before the name was changed.

It’s almost like we have run out of things to fight about here.

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Anonymous wrote:My DH started to grow a full beard at 15 due to some medication he was on. He would have to shave every single day. Schools shouldn't ban hair that grows out of your body that you can't control.

This!

Gross and of course he could control it, just shave. Millions of men do this every day……not difficult.

You're a woman. I trust that you have lasered off all of your body hair (arms, legs, groin) so that it never grows back and that you keep your own "gross" hair on your head at a hygienic, not-gross length of maybe 1 cm? Right? Since hair is gross, you _also_ should not have hair.



otherwise you're just spouting your visual preferences and imposing them on other people.

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Anonymous wrote:My DH started to grow a full beard at 15 due to some medication he was on. He would have to shave every single day. Schools shouldn't ban hair that grows out of your body that you can't control.

This!

Gross and of course he could control it, just shave. Millions of men do this every day……not difficult.

Anonymous wrote:I never thought about this until now and I have a son with intentional, styled facial hair (vs. overslept and didn’t have time to shave facial hair). He attends either maret, st albans or sidwell* and no one in authority has ever brought up his facial hair.

I think we all intuitively know GDS wouldn’t have physical appearance policies, save for a prohibition on certain message t-shirts.

Same with our boys' Catholic high school; lots of different hair styles and facial hair.

I never thought about this until now and I have a son with intentional, styled facial hair (vs. overslept and didn’t have time to shave facial hair). He attends either maret, st albans or sidwell* and no one in authority has ever brought up his facial hair.

I think we all intuitively know GDS wouldn’t have physical appearance policies, save for a prohibition on certain message t-shirts.

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Mustaches and beards on high schoolers never look great.

Never? Speak for your own family
My teen boys grow a wonderful looking beard

+1. My son is quite handsome with his mustache and goatee. He started getting mustache at 11. Now he is 15 and looks 19-20.

He looks like this stock image

Holton requires it.

The military requires service members to be clean shaven. Doesn’t seem to be that outlandish a requirement.

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Anonymous wrote:What is the theory against non-religious based facial hair? I'm curious as to the reasoning.

Because they're children, not adults.

Moustaches and beards on high schoolers never look great. If a school has a dress code or uniforms, it makes perfect sense they also have policies regarding facial hair along with things like earrings or tattoos, and, of course, types of haircuts or hair lengths for boys.

But if they are actually growing facial hair they are not small children, and it seems to follow they can decide what to do with it. Do these schools have mandates on if a boy or girl can shave their legs and if so what age it is allowed? Do they have mandates on if unibrows are allowed? (a different kind of facial hair…)
It’s not as if they are wearing a stick on beard pretending to have facial hair. And as for it not looking good, I think it’s one of the things about youth, finding out the hard way you look a little (or a lot) silly.

Pretty sure most private schools want to avoid having students “look silly”. If having your child grow facial hair in high school is important to you, there are plenty of schools where that’s an option.

Anonymous wrote:My DH started to grow a full beard at 15 due to some medication he was on. He would have to shave every single day. Schools shouldn't ban hair that grows out of your body that you can't control.

This!

Mustaches and beards on high schoolers never look great.

Never? Speak for your own family
My teen boys grow a wonderful looking beard

My DH started to grow a full beard at 15 due to some medication he was on. He would have to shave every single day. Schools shouldn't ban hair that grows out of your body that you can't control.

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Anonymous wrote:What is the theory against non-religious based facial hair? I'm curious as to the reasoning.

Because they're children, not adults.

Moustaches and beards on high schoolers never look great. If a school has a dress code or uniforms, it makes perfect sense they also have policies regarding facial hair along with things like earrings or tattoos, and, of course, types of haircuts or hair lengths for boys.

But if they are actually growing facial hair they are not small children, and it seems to follow they can decide what to do with it. Do these schools have mandates on if a boy or girl can shave their legs and if so what age it is allowed? Do they have mandates on if unibrows are allowed? (a different kind of facial hair…)
It’s not as if they are wearing a stick on beard pretending to have facial hair. And as for it not looking good, I think it’s one of the things about youth, finding out the hard way you look a little (or a lot) silly.

Anonymous wrote:What is the theory against non-religious based facial hair? I'm curious as to the reasoning.

Because they're children, not adults.

Moustaches and beards on high schoolers never look great. If a school has a dress code or uniforms, it makes perfect sense they also have policies regarding facial hair along with things like earrings or tattoos, and, of course, types of haircuts or hair lengths for boys.