Posted on 03/28/2015 7:46:30 AM PDT by Salman
There is nothing quite like the petty despotism of the public school system. A boy from McMinnville, Tennessee, was suspended after coming to Bobby Ray Memorial Elementary School with a haircut deemed inappropriate by the principal. It was a "high and tight" military-style haircut that the boy had requested so that he would look more like his step-brother, an active-duty soldier.
The principal did not budge, leaving the boy's mother no choice but to shave his head so that he could come back to school.
(Excerpt) Read more at reason.com ...
yes we did, and my dad got me a can of “Butch Wax” so you could sculpt the tiny bit of hair in the front. THAT was being a rebel!
if you had this sort of haircut back then, do you remember the rubber combs, that fit over your finger and you held in the palm of your hand to kind of just rub your butch backward so it would stay up? They used to sell them from a cardboard display, I think they were a quarter.
Why do people that hate children go into school administration and teaching?
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I do. Why? I also support GETTING YOUR KIDS OUT OF THE GOVERNMENT INDOCTRINATION CENTERS!!!! But for those that are left there, the ones I’m paying for with my tax dollars, yes, I support uniforms.
Maybe not this case, but YES, soul crushing. (in other cases)
Oh wow, yeah! Do I have to have a kid there to sue him or her??????? yeowww!!!
j/k
I support uniforms, mildly. But I don’t support this, nor do I think this is an extreme haircut. Married to a Navy man for 23 years, I think this haircut is perfectly normal and boyish.
In other words, it’s partly MY school. Well, not this particular one, but....
In my day, we used to get bounced from school if our hair was too LONG.
I’m native American and all my children are. We were born in America, hence: native.
The policy probably wasn’t against the military, but this decision was. So this was a distraction against the “real issues” What is or are the real issues then, in this case??
WTF? And the school is named after a war vet? I wouldn’t believe this would happen in San Fransisco, let alone some town in TN.
Has the principal ever tried telling a Black kid he couldn’t wear dreads?
Not only do I remember all of that, I still go to a barbershop where you can still get butch wax and palm combs.
Completely hypocritical.
The last real barber I had retired probably ten years ago, maybe fifteen. Nothing around here anymore except the strip mall hair cut places. They don’t have butch wax, but shelves of goop and spray to sell you.
Now, well, I don’t have much hair left, so my wife does it for me, takes her all of about 2 minutes with the clippers. I feel that I should get an 80% discount if I go to the haircut joint, seeing I’ve lost 80% of my hair! It just ain’t fair I tell ya.
I remember when our kids were young, she bought a contraption to go on the vacuum to cut their hair. I think that lasted for about one hair cut for each of them.
1) Nearly every teacher in this nation was trained by godless Marxists in Marxist-run colleges of education. Even if those responsible for this nutty action were fired they would soon be replaced by similarly trained people. Even if the teachers and principal are not Marxists themselves the college of education training will bleed through into their decisions.
2) Would hairstyle or uniforms be a source of conflict among parents and the schools if all schooling in this nation were delivered privately. When was the last time we saw a newspaper article about dress standards or haircuts when a private school was involved?
3) How people dress ( or wear their hair) is a form of speech and a reflection of fundamental religious, cultural, and political beliefs. It is **impossible** for any school to accommodate all the various belief-systems of every family in any community. This is true even if school districts were the size of a small suburban housing division. Compulsory-attendance and compulsory-funding of single-payer government schools **will** inevitably set neighbor against neighbor as the more powerful lobbying groups impose their NON-neutral worldview onto the hearts and minds of other people's children.
4) Prison-like, single-payer and socialist-entitlement schooling is a new phenomena in the history of humankind. Nearly 150,000 years of our human ancestors would share their heads in wonderment that we treat children as we do today in the typical factory-like and prison-like school.
5) The above can NOT be fixed! It must be abolished. It can't be fixed because it is fundamental to the system.
6) What is needed is complete separation of school and state. Vouchers, tax credits, on-line schooling, homeschooling, and charters will help in weaning the public from the single-payer and socialist-entitlement school teat. The goal, though, should be privately delivered schooling ( K- college).
Probably
I haven’t called for the “E” word to be utilized for a while, but this represents a nice opportunity to make an example.
Execution ?
Wake up! There are no “real issue” in this case. Even if the school was making all of the boys wear exactly the same haircut and cute little suits it would still not be “soul crushing”.
I doubt whether there are any people here who are bigger supporters of military personnel than my wife and I. She was recently presented with an award for her work honoring and supporting military personnel by Maj. Gen. Thomas R. Tempel Jr., and Command Sgt. Maj. Marshall L. Huffman who are currently the Western Regional Medical Corps Command Team... this is basically everything west of the Mississippi including Alaska and Hawaii. We spend a large percentage of our time honoring and helping military personnel.
The article was written in a way that makes it appear that the principal was taking some kind of anti-military stance by enforcing the district's policy against “extreme” haircuts. Similar dress code policies can be found at schools in other conservative communities that are supportive of the military. My wife and I both initially got worked up when we read the article.
After taking the time to find other articles written about the situation we realized that we were most definitely manipulated by the author of this piece. The first clue should have been the byline, “Why is it okay for public school officials to place totally unnecessary, soul-crushing restrictions on students?” When was the last time you heard a dress code described as “soul crushing”?
If continuing to make a mountain out of a mole hill helps make you and nearly everyone else here feel like they are supporting the military without actually doing anything... then go ahead and keep it up. Have you all forgotten that the military itself has the same kind of “soul crushing” dress codes for most personnel; they also have weight restrictions that a large percentage of civilians do not meet. My wife used to teach “fat boy” exercise and nutrition classes on base to help keep people from getting discharged. Maybe everyone here should be protesting that as well? This boys mother is not doing him any favors by making the kid feel like he is being victimized by the school. My wife's dad who was a combat veteran of WWII and Korea, and a drill sergeant during Vietnam would be laughing his butt off over this. The article was written to be inflammatory. It is a little shocking to me how easily we can be manipulated and worked up over a non-event such as this.
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