{"id":132773,"date":"2023-10-26T10:47:02","date_gmt":"2023-10-26T10:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluemull.com\/?p=132773"},"modified":"2023-10-26T10:47:02","modified_gmt":"2023-10-26T10:47:02","slug":"schoolboy-put-in-isolation-and-told-to-chop-off-his-mullet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluemull.com\/lifestyle\/schoolboy-put-in-isolation-and-told-to-chop-off-his-mullet\/","title":{"rendered":"Schoolboy put in isolation and told to chop off his mullet"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Schoolboy, 15, is put in isolation and told to chop off his mullet because the hairdo is &#8216;too extreme&#8217;<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Toby Quinn, 15, was put in isolation for a full day because he had a mullet<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The Sunderland schoolboy had previously been punished for having short hair<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A 15-year-old boy was put in isolation for a full day and told to shop off his mullet because the hairdo is &#8216;too extreme&#8217;, his mother says.<\/p>\n<p>Toby Quinn was separated from his classmates and put in isolation after his teachers told him his Aussie-style trim was &#8216;unacceptable and unprofessional&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>St Aidan&#8217;s Catholic Academy, in Sunderland, gave the teenage boy a week to chop it off.<\/p>\n<p>He was previously punished and isolated for having his hair too short, and was left fuming when he was more recently told his haircut was now too long.<\/p>\n<p>The school extended the deadline when his mother said he was growing it for charity, but now he&#8217;s been forced to cut it short.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/26\/09\/77023623-12674679-image-a-1_1698309643628.jpg\" height=\"1347\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Toby Quinn was separated from his classmates and put in isolation after his teachers told him his Aussie-style trim was &#8216;unacceptable and unprofessional&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/26\/09\/77023627-12674679-image-m-4_1698309665112.jpg\" height=\"776\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The school extended the deadline when his mother said he was growing it for charity<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/26\/09\/77023621-12674679-image-m-5_1698309676030.jpg\" height=\"673\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Toby&#8217;s mother Naomi, 47, said the school considered her son&#8217;s new haircut as extreme<\/p>\n<p>Toby&#8217;s mother Naomi, 47, said the school considered her son&#8217;s new haircut extreme after recently changing their haircut policy.<\/p>\n<h3>READ MORE &#8211;\u00a0The modern mullet! Celebrity hairdresser reveals why the style is not just a haircut &#8211; plus what to consider before getting the chop\u00a0<\/h3>\n<p>The mother-of-two said: &#8216;His teachers said they&#8217;d changed the haircut policy and it had to go.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;They said that it wasn&#8217;t professional and he wasn&#8217;t allowed to have it and was told to cut it off.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I don&#8217;t know why a 15-year-old needs to be considered professional. The general gist was that it was considered extreme.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;He did get isolated for having it, he got separated from the school community and he was there for the rest of the day.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;He&#8217;s been in isolation previously for having his hair too short. They didn&#8217;t allow skin fades.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Strangely they relaxed that haircut rule and they were allowed to have skin fades. He was the only boy with a mullet in school and they didn&#8217;t like it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Staff told me he had to have his mullet cut off. I was told in a meeting it had to be cut off.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;That was about four weeks ago, they&#8217;d given him seven days to get rid of the hair.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/26\/09\/77023617-12674679-St_Aidan_s_Catholic_Academy_in_Sunderland_gave_the_15_year_old_a-m-9_1698309918429.jpg\" height=\"1287\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>St Aidan&#8217;s Catholic Academy, in Sunderland, gave the 15-year-old a week to chop it off<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/26\/09\/77023631-12674679-image-a-7_1698309704552.jpg\" height=\"867\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, Toby had his mullet cut off for Newcastle Hospitals Charity to support a ward which saved his grandad&#8217;s life last year<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/26\/09\/77023625-12674679-The_teenager_has_managed_to_rake_in_over_340_in_donations_so_far-m-20_1698310218979.jpg\" height=\"734\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The teenager has managed to rake in over \u00a3340 in donations so far after setting up a JustGiving page three weeks ago to raise money for the ward<\/p>\n<p>The teenager, from Ashbrooke, Sunderland, was initially given a week to chop off his locks but teachers extended the deadline when he revealed his plans to raise money for charity.<\/p>\n<p>And on Tuesday, Toby had his mullet cut off for Newcastle Hospitals Charity to support a ward which saved his grandad&#8217;s life last year.<\/p>\n<p>The teenager\u00a0has managed to rake in over \u00a3340 in donations so far after setting up a JustGiving page three weeks ago.<\/p>\n<h3>READ MORE &#8211;\u00a0Battle of the mullets! Boys competing in the kids&#8217; final of the 2023 US Championships proudly flaunt their luscious locks\u00a0<\/h3>\n<p>His mother, who is a hairdresser, said: &#8216;We told them he&#8217;s decided to raise money and they said he could have a couple of weeks.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;He wasn&#8217;t happy at all though to lose the mullet, he said he was fuming. But he&#8217;s come to terms with it, he&#8217;s had a few weeks to digest it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;He thought it would be good to get something positive out of a pretty rubbish situation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I suggested it would be good to raise money for the unit that saved his grandad last year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;We started three weeks ago. His target was \u00a3200, but he raised over \u00a3340 now.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;But he&#8217;s a typical teenager so he&#8217;s pretty chilled about it all.&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 15-year-old said: &#8216;I was fuming when my mam told me the school said my mullet had to go.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;But then I thought about doing the fundraiser and making a bit of money for charity and I felt better about it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;My mam said about the Freeman Hospital in Newcastle because they saved my granddad last year and maybe I could help other people who have had heart attacks too.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Several schools in Australia have banned the hairstyle &#8211; which rose to prominence in the 70s and 80s &#8211; as it&#8217;s recently come back in style.<\/p>\n<p>But it is believed to be the first time a British school has clamped down on the mullet in recent years after it began coming back into fashion here.<\/p>\n<p>Once made famous by the likes of Jason Donavan, Rod Stewart and Andre Agassi, modern celebs like Miley Cyrus and Rihanna have all sported the haircut.<\/p>\n<p>MailOnline has approached\u00a0St Aidan&#8217;s Catholic Academy for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/femail\/article-12674679\/schoolboy-isolation-mullet-hairdo-st-aidans-catholic-academy-sunderland.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Schoolboy, 15, is put in isolation and told to chop off his mullet because the hairdo is &#8216;too extreme&#8217; 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