Victimhood Poker, sort of.

From The Metro:

Seven primary school children have been ordered to wear green sun hats after having their hair cut too short.

School rules forbid children having cuts shorter than a clippered 'number two'. But it has a predominantly black school roll and parents say their hair must be cut short to prevent it becoming messy. Some have threatened to withdraw their children in protest.

Dorothy Bako, 35, whose son Shama, nine, was forced to wear the head gear, said: 'It's unbelievable. We feel angry, it's such a drastic step. It promotes bullying in the school. Shama doesn't like wearing it.' Another parent, who did not want to be named, said: 'It's one step away from reintroducing the dunce's cap. 'There is a racial element to this as well because most of the children having cropped hair cuts are black, so it singles them out.'

Debra Newman, headteacher at Corpus Christi Catholic primary school in Coventry, the policy and said most parents were 'fully supportive' of it. 'We're just following school policy and making sure we treat everyone the same,' she said.

I love these finely balanced Victimhood Poker games!!

In the Green Corner, we have the bansturbators and global warmenists who reckon that a little bit of sunshine (wot? we've just emerged from the longest, coldest winter for decades) will hurt the little darlings and doesn't care about humiliating them. They've got 'it's-for-the-children' as their strongest card.

In the Black Corner, we have the African-Caribbean parents unashamedly playing the 'racism' card. Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but if the school roll is 'predominantly black' (I think that's the old-fashioned word for 'African-Caribbean', which in turn is the new version of 'Afro-Caribbean', keep up at the back), then isn't it a bit difficult to 'single out' pupils on the basis of skin colour?

Further, correct me if this is just prejudice, but isn't African-Caribbean skin already very good at shielding them from 'the sun's harmful rays'? When you see photos of school children in Africa, are they all wearing twatty green hats? Methinks not.

In any event, this is much more exciting than if the kids being singled out were white boys with skinhead haircuts, they wouldn't stand a chance. Or even better, ginger kids, because they are most likely to have an adverse reaction to a bit of sunshine. They'd be pretty much f***ed.

As a final thought, how can Ms Newman justify this on the basis that it's 'school policy'? Doesn't she set the school policy? It's the 'school policy' that's being criticised here, not just the way it is being implemented.