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Here is a link to an article I ran across on Yahoo but from the Ap on a kid from Texas. Wish him and his mom luck!
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_HAIR_FIGHT?SITE=NCAGW&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
Hi Steve,
As I said when this topic was brought up a few weeks earlier on the hyperboard, if this boy's hairstyle is really all that "disruptive" in his classroom, then the school's dress code should apply to the girls just as much as to the boys... But, of course, wherever backwards thinking reigns supreme (and TexASS seems to be the #1 state in the Onion - oops! I mean, Union - to prove backwards thinking to be all too alive and well in some places), nobody is going to see the plain logic staring at them right in front of their faces, because their minds are already closed on the topic. "Don't confuse me with the facts!" should be their motto.
Yes, long hair is TERRIBLY disruptive in a classroom! [cough cough] Why, just the other day my own long hair got up off my head, walked right on over to a Texas school teacher (after hopping on a plane to the Dallas area, of course), and slapped an old maid English teacher right in the face!!! These disgusting long hairs -- they have the nerve to act like they have a mind of their own!!!!
- Ken
- Ken
Oh dear not another story from the single flag state...wanna be republic...when will they learn lol!
Truly ridiculous.
These stories get me pissed! Seems that "well groomed" means short, buzzed or bald. I know plenty of short haired guys that are menaces to society. I'm afraid this crap isn't going to end.
"students who dress and groom themselves neatly, and in an acceptable and appropriate manner, are more likely to become constructive members of the society in which we live."
HA! What sheer idiocy. Constructive members of society? Like a money-grubbing businessman destroying the well-being of his workers or maybe a corrupt politician? (redundant, I know!) These "well-dressed" soulless clones are the ones who screwed everyone over in the first place! I would say they are DEconstructive instead!
Rant over-
-Dan H.
Just when I thought the inhabitants of this ant farm with cell phones couldn't be any more ridiculous & petty...
And I say that not as a longhair but a reasoning human being...
So hair length decides who becomes productive members of society now, huh? Please tell me again, how many reputable business LEADERS (not scammers) there are with long hair? I can think of one, and I'm not sure if he's stil the CEO of Sun Microsystems.
Sounds like according to these numbskulls, my longish hair can be a detriment to MY well being in the community? Somehow it can be a detriment to my eventual taking over of the family business, which is one of the THE MOST reputable, respected, and well known lumber and building material dealers in the northeast AND POSSIBLY THE ENTIRE COUNTRY? I'm sorry, but when I see something like this, I get a little wound for sound. I have customers, well respected contractors who do good work, that have long hair. I don't look at them any differently. You can have long hair and appear professional at the same time. It's all about the hygene......
So why does it seem that public schools can override the wishes of the parents? I'd take and put him in a private school in a heartbeat (I have no faith in public schools anymore, especially here in NYS). Of course, then, someone at the school would not like that and try to get the kid taken away from me because somehow I'm "negligent". Boy, the world these days.......
The wording of the dress code can easily be challenged - this is not a hairstyle "designed" to... "disrupt".