Show of cancer support gets students in trouble

Bloomfield, IND (WISH) - Three football players at Eastern Greene Middle School dyed their hair pink to support their team's first female football player and victims of breast cancer.

But late Tuesday, we learned about a change of heart by school officials.

"It was a stand against breast cancer," Tracy Siedel says that landed her son in the principal's office.

“This was a way for these kids who don’t get to express themselves a whole lot they are teenage kids to take a chance and make a stand against something that they all believe in very deeply,” commented Siedel.

Siedel says her son Dustin along with two friends dyed their hair pink, to show support for cancer and to honor the only female on their football team.  Instead of praise Siebel says the three students were slapped with detention.  

Siedel along with the other parents say they knew the pink hair would violate the schools dress code, but allowed it anyway. She says Initially administrators told parents of the students who dyed their hair they could not make an exception but this afternoon there was a change of heart. 

“We wanted to evaluate the situation making sure that it wasn't a disturbance to the school or the classroom or the educational setting but no discipline action being taken by the school,” remarked Ty Mungle Superintendant of Eastern Greene Schools. 

The superintendent says the dress code is there to avoid allowing student to cause a disruption in the school.  In this case, Mungle says these students' show of support was just that.