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Cut your hair to get grades'

SINGAPORE schools have barred some students from collecting their exam results because their long or dyed hair breaks school rules, a head teacher and a newspaper said yesterday.

About a dozen male students some of whom may have already finished their studies at school were blocked from entering Hong Kah Secondary School on Friday to pick up their O-Level grades because they sported long or dyed hair and in some cases sideburns and earrings all of which are banned under state school rules, principal Mary Bay said.

It's all about self-discipline and it's the same practice as in any other school, Bay said.

Similar scenes played out at secondary schools across the tightly controlled city-state as school authorities cracked down on 16- and 17-year-old students who had adopted a trendier look since taking their exams in October, the New Paper reported.

No students at Singapore secondary schools are allowed to dye their hair, Bay said.

Boys must have short hair and girls must tie back their long hair, she said.

She added that the rules have existed for as long as she can remember.

Students at Bay's school were told they would only receive their exam results once they cut their hair. Some complied, but others remained defiant.

No way will I cut my hair or colour it black again, the New Paper quoted Hong Kah student Muhd Hilmi as saying.

That's the way my hair was before the exams and I don't see any reason why I should change it now.

The rules were enforced in varying degrees at different schools across the island, the newspaper said.

At some schools even more outrageously attired 'punks' were allowed to collect their results without any objections, it reported.

In the 1960s and 70s, at the height of the hippie era, visitors to Singapore with long hair could not enter the country until they got it trimmed. AP

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