new thread
Recently in the local news it was announced that results from a recent dispute involving the Bastrop school district requiring a boy to cut off his long hair resulted in a decision by the Texas Supreme Court (I think) deciding in favor of the school district. I did a search for this news item (last week's news, I think) but could not find anything on the net about it. If anybody reading this has access to more detail, please post it here or post a link to a news site. Thanks.
I found one story on the web related to this. It is located at http://www.texasonline.net/langley/columns/hairdo.htm
And this paragraph from that site was particularly of interest:
I recall other cases where students (boys OR girls) cut their hair "too" short, and this PO'd the authorities just as much as having it too long. But in these cases the hair police definitely do not get the last laugh. Not even the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court can order a kid to grow hair back, any faster than it wants to. :-)
It is a shame that hair is so easy to cut off and so hard to grow. Like the little nine year old boy who lost his lifetime ponytail, hair mutilation is oh, so easy. :-( And in the fleeting moment of a temporary court order, an assault, or an intimidation by another person, one can lose hair that took many years to grow. Mutilation that is so longlasting as to be near-permanent should carry a far greater penalty that it does, and it is taken far too lightly by most authorities. This is something we should scream about until it is changed.
It has always been far easier to destroy than it has been to create.
Nyghtfall:
contact me some time. You sound OK man!!
Steve