A school has changed its uniform rules to allow pupils to wear fake eyelashes due to 'mental health considerations'.
For the pupils, or the teachers?
Parents were sent a letter informing them of the decision after attendance was affected by students wearing them.
Headteacher David Collins, of Knole Academy in Sevenoaks, Kent, said students were missing school to have their lashes removed or refusing to attend without them.
The letter said: 'We are increasingly seeing attendance affected by students taking time off to have false eyelashes removed or refusing to attend school through mental health considerations.
'Having students in school is the most important consideration and therefore... we shall allow false eyelashes to be worn as long as they are discreet.'
The lunatics really are running the asylum now.
But one mother, whose daughter, 13, is a pupil at the school, said: 'We're a society being run by children, which I'm not going to stand for. Rules are rules and that's the end of it.'
If only!
She said that in allowing fake eyelashes, the school was encouraging the girls to adopt age-inappropriate looks. The mother added: 'It's quite worrying because are they going to start getting the attention of older men?'
Probably not in Rochdale, where they like them a lot younger.
