Illegally Blond

Say it isn’t so.

Are a couple of teenage girls about to be kicked out of school for being “too blond?”

The answer is yes—and the bottle blonds, who are students at the Rednock School in Gloucestershire England, both claim it’s a big mistake, according to parentdish.com.

At issue is the headmaster’s claim that the girls, Reagan Booth, 16, and Aby Western, 15, violated school regulations against “unnatural hair colors.” He says their “lightened locks are against the rules and is demanding that they both go darker or face expulsion.”

The girls are defending their turf, saying that “unnatural hair colors are blue, purple, green and bright red,” certainly not the golden blond favored by superstars like Christie Brinkley and Cameron Diaz.

The conflict is still unresolved. However, at least one person commented that it was hard to understand why the haircolor was distracting anyone, “except perhaps the headmaster himself.”

Deborah Lambert writes the Squeaky Chalk column for Accuracy in Academia.

Deborah Lambert