The Guardian :
Ali Mohammadian's gesture, copied by his entire class of more than 20 pupils, stops bullying and attracts praise from all over country.
When Iranian schoolteacher Ali Mohammadian noticed that one of his students was being bullied after going bald as a result of a mysterious illness, he decided to show solidarity and shave his own hair. In no time, his entire class shaved their heads and the bullying stopped.
Now, Mohammadian, who teaches at Sheikh Shaltoot's elementary school in Marivan, a Kurdish city in the west of Iran, has become a national hero. President Hassan Rouhani has praised him, the government has offered financial support for the pupil's medical treatment and his story has reached the four corners of his country.
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SCHOOL SUCKS: Iranian School Boys Get Heads Shaved (1951) (published by DK in Iranian.com, 10-Jul-2011 )
Bald Iranian boys, whose heads have been shaved to cure scalp infections, march in single file between buildings of the Work and Rehabilitation Center in Tehran. (1951)