A Norfolk school has made headlines after senior staff included “meet me at McDonald’s” on its list of banned haircuts.

Most of the styles on Great Yarmouth Charter Academy’s blacklist will be familiar to those with school-aged children: Mohicans, shaved lines and overgrown fringes are all unwelcome in the classroom.

However, a ban on “variations on the style often known as ‘meet me at McDonald’s’” was a cause for puzzlement:





Things I learnt today: There is a hairstyle called "meet me at McDonalds". — Adam Kirton (@AdamKirton) February 21, 2018





Today's discussion point in the @tes office: what is a %u2018meet me at McDonalds%u2019 haircut anyway? — Martin George (@geomr) February 22, 2018

The haircut, apparently in vogue with schoolboys, is distinguishable by its close-cropped sides and a voluminous, perm-like thatch on top.

“Meet me at McDonald’s” cuts are sported by “celebrities including Myles Stephenson of Rak-Su and Leondre Devries of Bars and Melody,” says The Daily Telegraph - although this may not help parents struggling to picture the ‘do.

But while the style - and the nickname - may be new, to older generations the look will be familiar as “reminiscent of styles sported in the New Romantic synthpop scene of the 1980s,” says The Sun.

Yaye! The "Meet Me At McDonalds" hairstyle is back! Now kids can look as stupid as their parents did in the 80s!(The music was way cooler back then though) Check out our page on the "do": https://t.co/x82rYhZImb pic.twitter.com/WuMlIHKyMe — Cyber Definitions (@Cyberdefs) February 22, 2018





I had this look when I was a teen. I thought I was channeling Terry Hall from The Specials. Didn't realise it was 'meet me at McDonalds'

Great Yarmouth Charter Academy bans 'McDonald's' hairstyle https://t.co/2mW8B04v5Q — Carol Percy (@DrCarolPercy) February 21, 2018

The origin of the nickname is uncertain, although it appears to have first appeared on Twitter in April 2015.

The letter, sent home to parents of the 1,000 pupils at the secondary school, says failure to deal with inappropriate hairdos by 26 February would result in pupils being made to work in isolation until the offending haircut had been restyled.

“We will happily provide families with a PowerPoint of unacceptable styles to avoid,” it adds.

Headmaster Barry Smith said that the memo was targeting a “very small number of cases”, but concerned parents have set up a Facebook group voicing their opposition to Smith’s “intense didactic like schooling and borderline bullying,” Metro reports.