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I hate my school so much. With only 17 days left to go before the end of the year the bastards made me cut my hair again. If I wouldn't have cut it, they would have given me detentions everyday until the end of the year and then not even let me graduate.
What the hell is wrong with people. I thought the last cut I got back in February would be enough. My hair isn't even as long as it was then either! I swear...organizations like my school shouldn't be allowed to exist. It's a Catholic institution and all. Aren't Christians (especially Catholics who act like they're better than all the other Christian religions...trust me, I know from experience) supposed to accept people and respect who they are...be all forgiving and all that rap. Buch of coercive hypocrites is what they are. I'm so pissed. All these setbacks make me feel like I'll never have long hair. Sorry, for bitching like this...just needed to vent.
Don't try to understand religious people and their predjudices. When the same folks who say their God makes galaxies also say their God cares what length your hair is, there can only be one conclusion drawn: they are insane. Back away slowly, then run as fast as you can.
The Rev
Amen to that!
When you're in college and your hair is all long.. go back and visit some teachers you like.. and proudly walk in front of those discipline people with long hair streaming behind, and they can't do a damn thing about it.
great timing. i had to have short hair in high school, and i walked to school, and now i go to college which is a mile away, but past where i went to school, so i walk past my old school every day i have class.
anyway, i have not visited school after graduating, but just today while walking home i passed by the small parking lot and saw my principal (the one who i had hair trouble with in school) getting into his car. it was kind of weird, but it made me smile. (i have not cut my hair since college started, so my hair is pretty far past regulation length.)
What is considered "Regulation" length?
i think it was that it is not touching the collar of your shirt, because dress shirts were part of our uniform. anyway, my hair is a little under a foot below the top of where my collar would be now; it is a little below my shoulders when streched out. that is what i roughly measured, and it sounds long, but it does not look that long, but it is definately past my collar quite a bit.
When they say it can't be on the collar, does that go for the bangs and sides etc? So in other words you could have all chin length hair?
yes, i think we could have chin length hair. needless to say, the top hair would be a lot longer than the hair further down. when i finished, my bangs were longer than the hair on top and in the back, because that hair had a longer path to my collar (it went behind my ears). it is hard to remember how it was; hair length and style has so many combinations and configurations that i often get confused about how it was.
Thought I'd ask since there was this kid growing his hair out last year, with no trims and his hair went over the collar and my history teacher gave him a hard time about it (as did the headmaster). I've been growing my hair out for coming close to ten months with trims only on the back and I haven't had one word from my history teacher, so I was wondering if it was the same at my school, I hope so! It's better than having to cut it short right?
i do not think so. i am not really sure. i know i had pretty shaggy hair lots of the time growing up, and they did not seem to mind it having an "unkempt" or shaggy appearance, just when it got down past the collar.
Dude, you should've yelled out to him... :) Would've been worth a pic... :)
Jeremy:
I was the Dean of STudents in one of those Catholic high schools, and all I can tell you, from the adult side of things, is that the adults in you school are caught in their own blindness. Try to find some compassion for their own lostness, and get on with the 17 days. Things will get better, and there is something for you to learn in this--like what kind of adult you are going to be around kids. This I know: if you do not choose from this experience to be different, you will become one of the adults that you are now so angry at.
An example. When I was the Dean, about ten years ago now, the principal and I both had beards. Our school policy was no facial hair on male students. I advocated for change, making several good points for why we should allow students to decide whether they wanted facial hair or not, including, that we adults had beards! I was able to change the rule--for one year. After that the principal, by fiat, ordered the rule reversed. When I approached him to talk about it, he now dismissed me saying that just because adults enjoyed certain freedoms did not mean that students had any right to them.
I was stunned. I left the position the next year. I was able to see how caught he and others of the adults in that insitution were caught in their own inability to see what they were doing to students. It changed me as a teacher.
Hang in there. Breathe mindfully often. Congrats on the graduation.
Robert
Oh, that is great. You talk about the big, bad world, and you would consider LYING and ruining someone elses life.
Tisk, Tisk
How would you feel if someone lied about you and the consequences were you had to get your head shaved?
Why don't you grow up.
"longhaired man" is the one who is warped. I read the message wrong.
A while back in this board I reported pretty much the same thing. Catholic schools, and measuring girls skirts and boys hair. (Couldn't touch the top of a dress collar). That was years ago and I promise the day after graduation, all will be forgotten and you'll be on with your life and will be able to "Get to growin'!"
Just wondering how much hair you had to cut off and how long you were able to leave your hair. And don't you mind venting, isn't that why they made the Internet?
Well, back in February, my hair was down to about the tip of my nose. Our regulations are that hair must be lower than the eyebrows, must not cover the ears, and the bottom back must not touch the collar. So I had to cut off about 3 inches back then. This time around, it had only grown back about an inch but was still technically a little over my eyebrows. So now it's back to being above my eyebrows again. Even when I pull it down it doesn't come anywhere close to even being in my eyes. Total BS isn't it?