MzGee, a Ghanaian media personality, has weighed in on the heated debate regarding the long-standing policy of SHS girls being required to trim their hair before school.
According to MzGee, Ghanaians should stop the emotional gimmick, as cutting hair is part of discipline.
Speaking on her Gee o’clock show, MzGee detailed, “Let’s stop the emotional gimmick. Cutting the hair is part of discipline. You don’t always get things the way you want them. Life has rules, and it starts with this,”
“Have you seen the conditions in some schools?” she asked. “Some of them don’t even have water. You expect these girls to wash and braid hair every week? Who will braid 700 girls’ hair in a boarding house?”
She added, “Imagine sitting behind a classmate with big, voluminous hair blocking your view,” she noted. Or the comparisons of who has better hair, who can afford nicer styles. Is that what school is about?”
“School is for three years. The hair will grow back,” she said. “It’s not a barbaric act; it’s a practical choice for a structured environment.”
Her comments come following a video of a fresh student of the Yaa Asantewaa Girls’ Senior High School, visibly distressed over being forced to cut her hair, which has ignited debate on social media.
In the viral video shared on X, the female student was visibly anguished as her hair was being cut as part of the SHS enrollment process in Ghana.
The video has left Ghanaians divided, with some calling for a review of Ghana’s long-standing policy that requires female students in public secondary schools to keep low-cut hair.
Some Ghanaians have, however, backed the school decision.
Meanwhile, Haruna Iddrisu, the Education Minister, has shut down social media debate regarding Senior High School (SHS) students cutting their long hair before reporting to school.
The Education Minister boldly declared, they will not tolerate long hair today or tomorrow in SHS.
He highlighted that if long hairs are accepted in schools, tomorrow it will be shoes the next day the uniforms students wear in SHS.
Speaking to patrons of the 75th anniversary of Mawuli School in the Volta Region, Haruna Iddrisu stated, “There is an ongoing debate on social media about haircuts and the size and length of hair in secondary school.
We will not tolerate it today; we will not tolerate it tomorrow in so long as we are moulding character. If we give in to hair today, tomorrow it will be shoes, and the next day it will be the way they dress”.
He added, “Therefore, as part of our disciplinary measures, headmasters and GES, you are therefore empowered to take full control of how students behave on your campuses.
Anybody who thinks your child will walk into any institution of learning as if that child forgive my words—were to attend a beauty contest, the school environment is not for that purpose and is not cut for that purpose and will not tolerate that as an institution,” he stated.
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