Twelve-year-old Oliver Everest has been suspended from Peacehaven Community School for refusing to dye his "skunk-stripe" haircut (The Argus, May 7). Whether his mother thinks it affects his studies or not isn't the issue here. Rules are rules and should be obeyed.

Defiance against uniform rules crops up every year but making a stand as mother Marcella seems to have done does not help her son with his education.

Generations ago, the rules were stricter and the children more compliant.

This young lad has been suspended and so is missing valuable teaching time. Is this really worth it Mrs Everest?

Rules teach a child how to behave either in school or at work and if there is defiance now what will there be when he is a teenager?

Children break rules too easily today and a parent supporting a child in breaking rules is not a good example to set.

  • A Cottrill, Carden Avenue, Brighton