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This really annoys me!
Granted, LOL is a farce, but still!
Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!
I hear ya. I can understand the school's stance. I think if the kid really wants to grow it then he should grow it and pin it up when needed. "Below the shoulders" it would therefore not be.
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Splat
The students at that school need to organize a massive protest, strike (stay out of class), and picket in front of the school over the hair issue. The students need to stand firm and refuse to be intimidated by school officials. It would be in their best interest to the get some parents and long haired teachers involved too. They need to make it known that the school discriminates since it allows long hair on girls but not on boys. They also need to get the news media involved, if possible. If enough people see it on the 6 O'clock news the school can likely be swayed to give in and allow boys to have long hair, by making it a civil rights issue. Civil disobedience is often the only way to change things for the better. It worked to end a very unpopular war one generation ago and it can work now. Absalom
It's at a time like this that I wish I were a celebrity. I'd jump in the fray and make this a national news story!
I agree with what you said. However, we are talking about Texas here. Texas isn't exactly on the forefront of progressive! Much of this state is still very hick! I know, I lived here in the 80s and have moved back.
About the only chance here is if the ACLU agrees to jump in. Other than that, I don't see anything happening in this case.
Texas is the only U.S. state I know of where the courts have within the last ten years upheld anti-longhair rules at PUBLIC schools. The court decisions to that effect have occurred in the state's highest court.
In the late 1990s, a school district told a third grader who had never in his life cut his hair that they had a new rule against boys having long hair. He decided to not obey the rule and the punishment they gave him for that was to lock him in a room all day by himself. This went on for four months. On the advice of a psychologist his parents ended it by taking him out of the school.
You don't get four months for DWI in Texas.
The Supreme Court of Texas saw nothing wrong here.... [sigh]
Bill
Wow, thats a really sad story, but I'm glad the boy didn't give in. Man, I feel sorry for him.
That's not the only case like that in Texas. There are others. In one case they covered all the windows so the other kids couldn't see him!
That is a great suggestion, Rokker. The ACLU has a lot of clout. They would likely have the best chance of putting an end to antiquated, discriminatory, and non-politically correct school policies regarding hair length. Absalom
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"But Harlingen school officials said they could not compromise their dress code, which forbids boys from having hair that covers their eyes or hangs below their shoulders."
Does that mean shoulder length hair brushed away from the face is okay? I'll bet it's not(!) Biggots, all.
What if it was put in a ponytail! They couldn't argue with that one, but one would need long hair in then first place.
I would suggest, after reading this story, go to hair
religions site and read what he has posted about LOL.
If this works you'll get a link to his site and his
section on LOL. Interesting that LOL only uses 3% of the
hair they acquire. It would be a shame to grow your hair
long only to have LOL not even use it.
Agreed.
I think the answer is to just grow one's hair anyway. The school district has the obligation to provide an education, whatever the length of the pupil's hair. Schools have been known to respond by having someone taught separately from the rest of the school, but think of that as getting a private tutor for free!
