Waverley College mullet ban: Students charged $20 for on-site haircuts
An all-boys school in Sydney’s eastern suburbs has doubled down in its vendetta against Australia’s most iconic haircut.
Per The Sydney Morning Herald, when term begins at Waverley College next week, students sporting “non-compliant” haircuts – namely, a mullet – will be invoiced for a trim on site.
Teens with mohawks, mullets, dreadlocks, buns or braids will be billed $20 and sent to a hairdresser stationed at the school. If they don’t like it, they’ll be sent home.
“If your son arrives at the college at the commencement of term 2 with a haircut that is not in line with college policy, he will either be sent home on his first day or we will have a hairdresser on site where he can receive a haircut at the cost of $20, charged to his school fees account,” deputy principal Gabby Smith told parents last week.
“Your son will be given a choice on this day and a note will be logged on his file. There will be no phone calls home.”
The $22,555-a-year school’s long-running battle to get kids to comply with its uniform policy first made headlines in 2021, when it told students the mullet was banned.
“Waverley College has a uniform policy, which includes presentation standards such as appropriate hairstyles,” it said in a statement at the time.
