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Yet another long hair in school controversy...
Ridiculous... as long as its cared for, what difference does hair make in a game of basketball? Sure, he'd probably have to wear his hair back in a tail to keep it out of his face in games, but to completely kick someone off the team for it?
Brad in Indiana,
I don't think that an athelete should be kicked off of the team because of his choice to wear his hair long. Sure, he should put his hair back in a ponytail in order to keep it out of his face while playing and practicing. However, his choice to wear his hair long does not impact his ability to play and it does not endanger any of the other players. Also, there are players in professional sports with long hair.
God bless him!
Raymond
'"If hair's more important than being on the team, you've got a player and a parent with their priorities in the wrong place."'
This line of thinking is back to front because it's the coach who is enforcing a completely arbitrary rule and creating this situation in the first place. The only time this sort of argument is valid is when the necessity to have short hair is out of human hands, in which case the imposition of deciding what is more important is actually legitimate.
The obvious comeback to this idiot is 'If forcing all males to wear their hair short is more important than having the best team possible, you've got a coach with his priorities in the wrong place'. It seems pretty damn obvious to me that the right thing for the parents to do in a situation like this is to support their child in standing up for himself, so in fact their priorities ARE in the right place. This may come at the cost of his sporting activities, but they're his parents and must look at the bigger picture. The coach just has to win games, so what's his excuse?
If that school applied the same rule across the board, they'd get slapped with a Title IX suit so fast their heads would spin. So how can they or the courts legitimately claim that "participating in extracurricular activities is a privilege, not a right"?
There was an incident like this in Texas a while back where a boy with Native American heritage refused to cut his hair and they kicked his butt out of school!
Damn shame if you ask me. Gotta be proud of these kids' parents though.
Some people just like to have power over others, they get a high off of it, it's their crack! Look at judges and police officers for example. Ask the central bankers and ultra wealthy why they like to hoard and steal money from others, it's their way of feeling power. Plain and simple. Many people are just defective with the need for power to make themselves feel important, to keep others down and controlled. Other people are also obsessed with money and being as greedy as possible to the point where they would purposely deny something to someone else at no expense to his or herself. You can see why I'm down about humanity. Most people have the mentality of inhuman monsters. Now is it any surprise that this dickhead coach wants to control something so irrelevant as a student's hair who wants to play basketball? People into sports I've noticed tend to be powermad, arrogant, crazed and not caring one iota for the basic rights and wishes of others. Look at Barack Obama (Barry Soetoro) the Kenyan-Indonesian basketball player, illegally acting as President of the United States.
Surely a privilege should be granted in a non discriminatory way?
It is pure nonsense to suggest otherwise - doubtless th personal prejudiced view of the presiding judge being given precedence in the only way in which he could.
Small time, small brain.