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A kindergartner was suspended for having long hair.
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Oh dear another sad tail from a mad principal from the "orange" haze state with the small outlook on life!
Cheers,
John.B
HEY HEY HEY NOW!!!!!
Lets not group all of the people from Louisiana in the same group as these few ignorant people. After all, I live in Louisiana myself and have become a promenant math man in this state and happen to have long hair. The high school that I went to allowed me to have hair as long (or as short) as I wanted and allowed to me to wear my tie-die every day with NO hasseling at all.
Please please please, lets watch our lables.
peace
clayton
Point noted!
As we know there many exceptions to this one incident!
Cheers,
John.B
Yes, but it is much more likely to happen in some areas of the U.S. than others.
That boy had a mullet. That's not long hair in my book. Either grow it, or cut it. Never a mullet!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh, come on. Nothing beats putting the Opry on the radio while burying your face in a mullet!
Bill
ROTF!!! Good one, Bill!
--Rick
Sadly we will never convince such small minded people in minor positions of power....
Yeah, it takes a real man to pick on a kindergartner.
Bill
I wish we could get past this notion that long hair on boys represents rebellion to "authority"! It represents freedom and personal choice, not only for the kid but for his parents. Isn't that what this country is all about, FREEDOM! Or are we to teach our children that we must all march in lock step to what those in charge are telling us? I don't think so! That experiment failed in Hitler's Germany and then in the Soviet Union.
Bruce
(stepping down from my soapbox)
Freedom is the last thing that exists in the US, so many of its crusades abroad would be better aborted until it solves its own deficiencies. that said the Uk opccasionally has these mad moments
We might as well resume sending people to the back of a bus. I just don't understand issues like this.
This reminds me a short story about how everyone is forced to become equal. I forget the name of the story but I remember a ballerina having to wear shackles on her legs so that she is as clumsy as everyone else.
Sounds like the guy has about the mentality of a stale Hostess Twinkie without the filling. Wow, what a hero he must be in the School picking on this little kid. (Such a threat to the world you know.)
...decided all on his own that he wanted long hair, and my wife and I have been encouraging him to keep it growing as long as he wants to. Calling him "little He-Man" always gets a grin! NO WAY will any public institution tell him that he can't be exactly who, what, and how he wants to be.
--Val
WOW, his hair is gorgeous! he's very cute too! ^^
That's so cool, keep encouraging him as he'll have an awesome long mane by high school and will be a lady killer. They'll just be falling all over him.
Kevin
As well they shouldn't, granted he's not hurting anyone in the process which he obviously is not. Core values are what they should be worried about. Some of these girls, for instance, whose parents let them wear skimpy miniskirts, almost-nothing tops, etc.. or kids not being to read by the eight grade is something they should be going after, not the length of a boy's hair.
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Splat
Wow that's great to see to encourage then to do their own thing and be put down by any rules or regulations. Great stuff and looks like a great kid.
Cheers,
John.B
It's great he decided to grow his hair at such a young age and gets the chance to do this. Keep it up!
A sad sad world we live in.
Victor,
Times had come to consolodate this into a class action suite on individual freedom. I am confident athat ACLU will support. I can provide leads, but cannoy do the organization.
Not a lawyer myself, I wonder if these fascist school districts could not be required to pay compensateory damages?
We cannot leave this to the individual student or parent.
James
As much as I agree with you, I don't think I can support the idea of a class action suit. Why? Because it is the general public that will pay for the suit whether they win or lose. It's a lose lose scenario.