Principal's being a bully, muli muli

If you've watched the TV series Jonah From Tonga, you would know that an anti-bullying song called "Don't Be A Bully" forms part of the plot. One line in the first verse states that just 'cos a kid's got a different colour hair don't mean you can be a bully. Sadly, that message didn't get through to Chad Holden, who is the Bellend of the Month for August 2014. Holden is the principal of a school in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, and he sent a student home this month just for having red hair. The reason: her hair color was deemed "too distracting." The student, Hayleigh Black, said she has been dyeing her hair the same red hue for the last three years. "I have never had anybody come up to me and say, 'Maybe you shouldn't have this colour,' or, 'Do you think that's a bad color,'" Hayleigh said. Her mother said she was shocked to get a phone call to come pick her up - less than 30 minutes after dropping her off on the first day of school. "Nothing was ever said last year," said Kim Boyd. "Never got any calls, never sent home, anything saying it had to be changed up until today." Hayleigh is an A and B student, a member of the marching band, and has even represented her school on various events in and out of state, all while donning her red hair. "I understand sending kids home for pink or purple or blue, but Hayleigh is red, and he argued it was not a natural shade of red," said Boyd. According to the student code of conduct book, it is up to the discretion of the principal or assistant principal to determine disciplinary actions pertaining to "disruptive hair style or colour." "He said he had already sent home two other ones for that problem, even though theirs were pink and orange, and not any shade of red. He said he had to be consistent; she would have to get rid of the red or go to a darker red," Boyd said. Chad Holden, should you ever come across this post, click on this link, listen to the whole song from start to finish, and leave the poor ranga kid alone.