Parents are not "inmates". They are Parents. Except in cases of Child Abuse, Parents enjoy infinite Authority over the Will of the Collective where it concerns their children. And that extends to their permission of hair-styles to their children.
But Jesus of Nazareth's hair-style aside (a Nazirite Vow, perhaps?) Parents are NOT inmates... unless you lock them in the system.
The only way you have "inmates running the asylum", is if you are determined to have a Gubmint Asylum, with Parents and Children as inmates.
If that's what you want, it isn't very Conservative.
Nor is it productive. Hiya OP!