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Simon Goddard Weedon / Special to The Daily Yomiuri
This article caught my eye as I teach twice a week at a combined middle school and high school and am currently engaged in a battle of wills with a small group of the students! The article is a little shorter than usual but offers a number of different challenges.
Test-passing students rejected by high school for appearance
The Yomiuri Shimbun
YOKOHAMA--Kanagawa prefectural Kanda High School in Hiratsuka disqualified 22 entrance-exam candidates in the 2004, 2005 and 2007 academic years based on their appearance or attitude, despite their passing scores, the prefectural board of education said.
The education board will allow those unfairly rejected examinees to enroll at the high school if they want. The board also plans to conduct an inquiry into other prefectural high schools to check whether similar cases occurred.
According to the prefectural education board, the school had teachers in charge note examinees' attitude, grooming and appearance, including hairstyle, when they came to the school to submit applications as well as when the applicants took entrance exams.
In some of the notes, the examinees were described as "letting nails grow long," "not buttoning up shirts" and "shaping eyebrows by shaving."
Based on the notes, the school decided to reject the 22 examinees--six each in the 2004 and 2005 academic years, and 10 in 2007. (222 words)
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