[conservatism_IS_compassion]

On further review, the issue is whether HS students are adults, and whether a graduating senior is subject to the same restrictions while walking toward the dignitary holding his diploma for him as an incoming freshman.

Having left high school, he is entitled to be known as “Mr. Jones,” and will be addressed as such in college. Mr. Jones claims that the school has not hitherto been enforcing the no-beard policy strictly. I find it in ill grace for the school to make this big a deal over a policy which it knows does not apply to Mr. Jones now that he is out - and ceased to be operative the instant he received his diploma.

[JBW1949]

Bottom line:

Rules are rules...Laws are laws...
Just because you do not agree with them or think them silly, does not give you the right or privilege to break them...

You DO have the right to work to get them changed...

He was told three times to shave it off...He abused the rule...No matter how trivial the rule may seem, it is still the rule...

It’s exactly like a person thinking a 35 MPH speed limit is too slow, so they go 45 and get a ticket...

If you don’t like the rule, work to change it....