Ab Editor - //Often these things are in place to stop bullying (for those who don't have or can't afford) the fashionable haircut. //
Absolutely.
Peer group pressure can be fierce, and by definition, fashion in clothing is often expensive, and some children are forced to miss out because their parents can't afford to keep up - hence the need and reasoning behind uniform.
If you are going to have a uniform policy, you need to enforce it fairly and evenly.
I can see that 'peaky blinders' haircuts with their echoes of earlier times, can be seen as smart, but if the next trend is going back to drainpipe jeans and leather jackets with fringes and chains on them, and drape jackets with fish hooks in the lapels, and DA's that take three pots of Brylcreem a week to maintain, then that is when a consistent application of a uniform policy comes into its own - and that is why they are applied.