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• Best-selling author Robert Dugoni stops by Lodi

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November 19th, 2009

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November 18th, 2009

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Students meet goals, so Clairmont Elementary Principal Susan Hitchcock dyes hair pink

With hot pink hair, Clairmont Elementary Principal Susan Hitchcock made good on a promise she gave to her students last year. She unveiled the new 'do at a school assembly Monday.

Hitchcock is also a Lodi City Council member, and the neon hairdo will still be in place next week when the council holds a meeting about the hot-button issue of prayer before council meetings.

Last year, Hitchcock told the students that if they met all 21 of their Annual Yearly Progress goals, she would dye her hair pink for two weeks. Both staff and students stepped up to the challenge, which included meeting all significant sub-group goals such as ethnicity, English-learners and low socio-economically disadvantaged. The figures were released earlier this month.

Students at her North Stockton school not only met the state-set goals, but are halfway to meeting 2010 goals whose levels increase another 11 percent.

On Tuesday, the school held an assembly to celebrate and most of the staff showed up with colored hair — but theirs was merely colored wigs or spray-painted hair, Hitchcock said.

Over the weekend, Rita Sperling at the Cutting Edge dyed Hitchcock's hair.

Hitchcock said those in their 20s tell her they love the color, while primary students tell her they really love it.

"But anyone over 40 thinks I have gone over the edge," she said. "When I was getting my hair done, a client at the Cutting Edge responded, 'I was wondering why anyone needed that much attention,' when I asked her how she liked my hair."

The color will remain come next Wednesday's special council meeting, Hitchcock said. The prayer controversy has drawn TV news cameras and newspaper photographers to previous meetings.

Clairmont Elementary School Principal Susan Hitchcock talks with kindergartners at lunch Wednesday as she sports a new hairdo. (Jennifer M. Howell/News-Sentinel)

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"Maybe if there is a picture in the paper with an explanation, people will stop looking at me like I lost my mind," Hitchcock said.

Contact reporter Jennifer Bonnett at jenniferb@lodinews.com.