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Budehaven School headteacher David Barton said he was off site when the incident occurred and described it as a 'misunderstanding'.

He said: 'I hope that Joshua is back in school (soon), and in class with his friends.

'It might be that Joshua's hair is a bit shorter than we would like, but it's probably not extreme and there may have been a bit of a misunderstanding between the school and his Mum.

'Our uniform policy doesn't mention hair, and maybe in future it should.

'This incident will probably prompt us to take another look at that aspect of the uniform policy.

'It wasn't our decision that Joshua should have not been at school (on Monday).'





..I'm not sure what the misunderstanding was exactly but the article says that the head has tried to communicate and sort it out but it would seem that mum has chosen to carry on keeping him away from his education and communicate with the DM instead....