Australian Student Suspended For Cancer Tribute Head Shave

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A 15-year-old student of a Catholic school in Brisbane, Australia was suspended from school after shaving her head for a cancer research fundraiser.

Emily Pridham’s entered the fundraiser because of her own father’s leukemia battle; despite undergoing a bone marrow transplant, he has been given only months to live. For her effort, Emily says that she was banned from Mount Alvernia College until her hair grows back.

In Emily’s words:

Basically my way of coping is to try and help other people going through the same thing.

Her mother, Barbara Pridham offered her views:

I am just appalled that she could be suspended by a Catholic school that promotes joy, respect and community spirit.

Mount Alvernia College claims that Pridham’s suspension was for a breach of the college’s uniform guidelines and also for “ongoing issues.”

Presumably, her shaved head is a breach of the aforementioned uniform guidelines. As for the ongoing issues, one would think they would be a little bit more understanding of a 15-year-old whose father has only months to live.

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C.S. Magor is the editor-in-chief and a reporter at large for We Interrupt and Uberreview. He currently resides in the Japanese countryside approximately two hours from Tokyo - where he has spent the better part of a decade testing his hypothesis that Japan is neither as quirky nor as interesting as others would have you believe.
9 Comments on this post.
  • C. S. Magor
    10 November 2009 at 1:42 am
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  • C. S. Magor
    9 November 2009 at 8:42 pm
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  • Karli
    14 November 2009 at 4:18 pm
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    Thats crazy. I can’t believe they did that. They’re so mean. Her father is dying and all she wanted to do was raise money for his medical bills. How could the school facilty be so uncaring? That is very sad that they suspended her for something so pety.

  • Karli
    14 November 2009 at 11:18 am
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    Thats crazy. I can’t believe they did that. They’re so mean. Her father is dying and all she wanted to do was raise money for his medical bills. How could the school facilty be so uncaring? That is very sad that they suspended her for something so pety.

  • anon
    3 May 2010 at 10:53 pm
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    this is stupid. ah, “the system”.

  • anon
    3 May 2010 at 5:53 pm
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    this is stupid. ah, “the system”.

  • katie
    4 May 2010 at 12:42 am
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    that’s so ridiculous that it’s funny.

  • katie
    3 May 2010 at 7:42 pm
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    that’s so ridiculous that it’s funny.

  • meh
    31 March 2011 at 4:46 am
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    religion makes me sick

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