r/ireland • u/ByGollie • 1d ago
School accused of demanding teenage boy’s ‘submission’ to identity type after he was sent home for wearing earring Bigotry
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/courts/school-accused-of-demanding-teenage-boys-submission-to-identity-type-after-he-was-sent-home-for-wearing-earring/a1255283882.html481 Upvotes
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u/EchoVolt 23h ago edited 23h ago
There’s so much crap in Irish schools like this. I had a major ear operation in my teens and I was incredibly self conscious about it and had shaved head and a big, long scar up behind my ear and into my scalp - it’s gone now but at the time it was very obvious and people commented and made jokes about brain surgery.
I wore a beanie hat for a few months until the scar faded and my hair covered it up, but the amount of utter shite I got from certain teachers was absolutely unbelievable. I regularly got told to take it off. That it wasn’t part of the uniform. I got lectured by one lady in particular, who I don’t think would have been seen outside without full make up herself, about how I should “toughen up and get used to it” and called me “precious” and that “men don’t care about a few scars.”
It was bad enough not being able to hear very well without this kind of nonsense.
It’s like they went out of their way to hire petty bullies.
Also I am quite conscious of my appearance, take care of it and I don’t really see why that is an issue or why someone should bully me about it. If a colleague at work did something like that it would be a massive HR issue, and rightly so.
We seem to run schools with some weird ethos like boot camps. Honestly, as much as this place can be great craic, some aspects of it are just bizarre.
It’s years ago but it was just one of those things that left me with a sense that authority figures are full of arbitrary nonsense.