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HAIR REGULATION FOR SCHOOL TEACHERS

No. 13.

66 Pa. D. & C. 2d 1 (1974)

Hair Regulation for School Teachers Unenforceable

Common Pleas Court of Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania.

February 22, 1974.

PACKEL, Attorney General, February 22, 1974.

You have asked us whether a school board may lawfully impose on teachers a dress code which regulates the length of hair that they may grow. Specifically, the dress code in question, originally imposed on students, forbids mustaches or beards, regulates the length of side-burns and provides that hair may not be grown so that it goes below the collar.

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