26/10/2025
🚫 Ban on Long Hair in SHS? We Deserve Better Priorities! ✊🏽📚
The new directive from Ghana’s Education Minister banning long hair in senior high schools is a step backward, not forward.
Our schools should be places of learning, creativity, and self-expression, not control and conformity. Hair length does not determine discipline, intelligence, or academic performance. What matters is character, focus, and respect — not how a student chooses to wear their hair.
Around the world, education systems are adapting to celebrate individuality and cultural pride, while Ghana is still policing appearances. Shouldn’t we be focusing on improving school infrastructure, teacher welfare, and digital education, instead of how students look?
It’s time to rethink outdated rules and embrace the diversity of our youth. Ghanaian students deserve to learn in freedom, not fear of punishment over hair. ✊🏾
