The Impact of the School’s Hair Policy to the Self-esteem of JRI Orion Grade 12 LGBTQIA++

Students

Apple R. Argame

Angeline T. Casupanan

12-Stem C
 1. Introduction

School hair policies have been a controversial issue for many years. This policy was implemented in the
school years ago to pursue the idea that everyone should look tidy, clean, and nice. Just like any other
policy, this regulation applies to both male and female individuals. By dyeing their hair black and getting
haircuts on a regular basis, the students remind themselves that they have a task to do at the end of each
month. Nowadays, many schools implement policies that regulate students' haircuts and hairstyles, which
has a significant impact on many students, particularly those from the LGBTQ+A community. Students
are obliged to get proper hair or haircuts before receiving a proper education—which includes entering
the school, taking exams, and getting clearances. This causes students to have low self-esteem and
deprives LGBTQ+A students of expressing themselves, which affects their performance. Some of the
questions that the researchers intend to ask are as follows: "Do you agree with the school hair policy?";
"Will cutting your hair affect your academic performance?"; "Will cutting your hair make you feel less
confident?"; and "Do you consider that schools should allow students to style their hair whatever they
want?" In order to acquire the information needed to solve the study's problems, these questions will be
asked of the respondents.

LGBTQ+A students seek equality after being forced to have a haircut before receiving a proper
education, which has nothing to do with education. These regulations not only have no instructional
purpose but may also have a negative impact on the behavior of LGBTQ students in the classroom. In
certain cases, instructors and administrators often take harsh disciplinary measures against LGBTQ
students who do not meet these standards, including publicly disciplining and shaming them. This leads to
students' absences from school for long periods of time, transferring schools, or dropping out completely
in order to avoid clashes with instructors and administration that are hostile to LGBT and non-gender-
conforming pupils. Teachers and principals often believe that children with long hair appear messy and
unkempt. Some students with natural brown hair are instructed to damage theirs on a regular basis in
order to "fit in". Schools must at least acknowledge the reality that being different in every aspect is not a
bad thing. Since anything might divert students, the idea that anything is "distracting to the learning
environment" can be used to justify a variety of pointless limitations.

 
 The JRI Orion 12 students who served as our respondents will enable us, as researchers, to bring our
work to fruition. Due to the fact that doing this research is highly contentious and that many people may
have different opinions, every student who participates will be a huge assistance to us and will prevent the
failure of our research. The last few years have seen schools and universities denigrate every student's
achievement or expel them based solely on their personal haircut preferences. What's worse is that they
have to repeat the entire semester in order to receive their diploma or even have the opportunity to walk at
graduation, which is unfair to the students because the only reason is their hair preferences, which have
nothing to do with education. Because the previous researcher used the theoretical answer to tackle the
problem after facing a similar circumstance before, they have prior knowledge of the subject. The
researchers all agreed that hairstyles have nothing to do with schooling and that they are a part of our
lives. One such instance was the forced haircut incident at Valencia City Central Elementary School
(VCCES). By the time Mr. Flores entered their class, several children in grades 1 through 3 had been
made to cut their hair. Because of the laughter they heard from their peers, the students who experienced
this were quite embarrassed. We all have rights, according to researchers, not just as students but also as
people. You have to respect people regardless of how they appear if you want to be respected in return.

As we learn more about the viewpoints and opinions of the chosen respondents, it becomes clear that the
researcher intends to actualize a product-based solution with an implementation. Implementing this
research can help students, particularly LGBTQ+A students, raise their confidence and improve their self-
esteem, which is difficult to create nowadays due to judgment. This study required both types of data. In
order to gather information for our research, we began by looking for previous studies that addressed this
subject. The opinions and viewpoints of the respondents will also be necessary for our research to
succeed, as we said previously.

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