Tokyo public excessive colleges will fully abolish guidelines that embody specifying the colour of underwear, the dying of pure hair colour uniformly to black, and outlawing “two block” haircuts that shave the facet of the top.
The Tokyo Metropolitan Board of Education on March tenth determined to abolish 5 guidelines that additionally embody dwelling detention and using ambiguous expressions akin to “student-ish” in all 196 public excessive colleges from subsequent yr.
In April final yr, the Tokyo Metropolitan Board of Education issued a discover requesting all colleges within the metropolitan space to evaluate the college guidelines.
廃止される校則は下着の色を指定すること、生まれつきの髪色を一律に黒色に染めさせること、頭の側面のみを刈り上げる「ツーブロック」を禁止すること、自宅で謹慎させること、「高校生らしい」などのあいまいな表現で指導することの合わせて5つです。
東京都教育委員会は10日、来年度から196校すべての都立高校などで廃止することを決めました。
都教委は去年4月、都立のすべての学校に対して校則を点検するよう求める通知を出していました。
– ANNnewsCH
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