No, I’m not referring to my supposed McCarthyite tendencies, but this: “Girl barred from school over red highlights.” (More here.)

Officials at Bowling Green Junior High say Angelica Hummel must dye her hair back, because the school’s dress code prohibits hairstyles that bring undue attention or make the wearer conspicuous.

I know we at Flypaper tend to defer to school leaders’ discretion on cultural issues like this, but haven’t teenagers been trying to “bring undue attention” to themselves for eons? And isn’t this a classic “do as we say, not as we do” situation? As far as I can tell, if workplaces disallowed highlights, most women in Washington, DC would go grey overnight.