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I'm in my last year of college and am about to student teach. The school I will be teaching at allows long hair, but the adminstrator of the Education department of the school I am in says I have to cut it. Of course they've just informed me of this weeks into the semester. I could have taken other courses and graduated with a Math/CS major/minor, but since the semseters is well underway that is not an option. Any suggestions out there as to what I should do?
eXtreme
Do they make women cut their hair? If not, contact the eeoc (both federal and state). You should be able to beat this one but you will never know unless you fight it.
Bill
Nope! Women may have any hair style they wish.
eXtreme
Before you go any further check with some civil liberty type lawyer. You should be able to find one by calling your local or state Bar Association. They will probably be willing to talk to you without a charge. If your case is sound, they will tell you.
Bill
Surely you can tie them up in litigation until after you graduate.
Then it won't matter anymore. :-)
Bill
If you want to teach, you better lop off the mane. As long as the dress codes are fairly and consistently enforced, you don't have a case. Check out the following sites: http://www.ahipubs.com/FAQ/discipline/dress_codes.html and http://www.oada.com/current/archive/sept96/sept7.htm. I found these sites searching on the words "long, hair, dress and codes." It's not fair, but it's apparently legal. I hope my employer doesn't find these sites. My waist length mane and soon-to-be 24 ear piercings would be doomed! I work in an incredibly conservative environment where hair that touches the ears is considered long. Good luck and take hair.
Did anyone mention what level of teaching this would be? At the elementary school where my children go, there is a second grade teacher who has hair about a foot long, which he keeps in a pony tail. I doubt anybody has batted an eye about this.
This will be at the elemtary and the middle school. The school system tthat I will be getting a job in allows long hair, but the school system that I will be student teaching in doesn't. They are having meetings on Monday todetermine what to do.
24 ear piercings, C O O L, are you getting them all at once? I wish my SO was more in to this!
Later Dude!!
24 ear-piercings? cool. any pictures?
I only have 14 so far, but the rest are on the way! No one can see 'em anyway because my hair is so long. I don't have an "ear pic" yet, but I might get one someday - several people have asked. Ya'all keep those manes growing.
If "to cut it or quit" were the only two options, I'd quit rather than cut my hair. It takes about as long to grow long hair as it would to change careers. In the long run, I want to have long hair. While you are in school, it is a good time to change careers, even if you have to spend a couple more years in school. I'd make it clear why I wouldn't take the teaching job, perhaps I'd tell them "I refuse to cut my hair" and see if they would fire me! Maybe they would change the hair rule instead.
I sorry if my previous post didn't make much sense. I was trying to share my experience.
I changed my career plans because I wanted to have long hair.
Sometimes people who say you should cut your hair later change their mind. A woman I dated said she didn't like my having long hair. I didn't cut it. A week or so later she was running her hands through my long hair and said not to cut it and that I look better with long hair. Then it was one of the few times she overcame her inhibitions allowing us to make love.
Well then whats good for the goose is good for the gander..there shouldnt be any controlling issues... well you know...blah..blah...
if they didnt want you that way then they should had never got in the relation in the first place... usually with women its a issue on what they see they can get that guy , that rebel do for them...some threshold of insecurity that there not in gereal ready to admit..so in terms dont do it unless you want to and dont let anyone feel that you should you are your own person and theres plenty of fish in the sea...
Why not get a wig to wear just during the student teaching period? I would think that student teaching would last a short enough period of time that you could stand it for that long, and well worth it compared to the time to grow it back.
Al