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Boy Got a Haircut Like His Military Step-Brother, School Suspended Him
Reason ^ | Mar. 27, 2015 | Robby Soave

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.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; US: Tennessee
KEYWORDS: arth; education; haircut; liberalism; mcminnville; military; suspended; suspension; tennessee
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To: Boonie

And I know “mohawks”...I had one for about 30 minutes when I was 9 years old...

Long enough to walk home from the barber shop, get my butt beat by my momma, then walk BACK to the barber, tell him my momma was gonna beat him, then get the rest cut off...*L*


21 posted on 03/28/2015 8:04:59 AM PDT by Boonie ("Nuke 'em all...Let Allah sort 'em out...)
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To: mhx
I wore the same haircut in elementary school and junior high
22 posted on 03/28/2015 8:06:16 AM PDT by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
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To: Salman

One of the founding fathers said they didnt want to trade 1 tyrant 3000 miles away for 3000 tyrants 1 mile any. This is a good example.


23 posted on 03/28/2015 8:06:38 AM PDT by Brooklyn Attitude (Things are only going to get worse.)
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To: Salman
Take note, everyone who thinks this is outrageous. Do you support school uniforms?
24 posted on 03/28/2015 8:09:44 AM PDT by southern rock
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To: Salman
Why is it okay for public school officials to place totally unnecessary, soul-crushing restrictions on students?

"Soul-crushing"?. Oh, please...

25 posted on 03/28/2015 8:12:18 AM PDT by Leroy S. Mort (The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it ~ G Orwell)
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To: Salman

Contact information for the school is available here:
http://www.warrenschools.com/BRME/

This week, they will be closed due to Easter Vacation.


26 posted on 03/28/2015 8:13:37 AM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: Salman

My dad had five of us boys and some hair clippers. We all got the same haircut until we were able to earn enough money to go to the barber.


27 posted on 03/28/2015 8:14:42 AM PDT by Starstruck (If my reply offends, you probably don't understand sarca only ones we can gesm or criticism...or do.)
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To: eddie willers

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/03/27/school-threatens-suspension-boy-military-haircut/70531810/


28 posted on 03/28/2015 8:14:59 AM PDT by Labyrinthos
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To: Fiji Hill
This week, they will be closed due to Easter Vacation Spring Break.

I fixed it for the politically correct crowd.

29 posted on 03/28/2015 8:18:19 AM PDT by Labyrinthos
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To: mhx; All
umm.."Flat-top" here ('66-'69) Military Dad, was never "insulted"..
School Admin., needs to put on their high-hip/glossy black boots
goose-stepping to their local D'Rats Headquarters.

30 posted on 03/28/2015 8:18:35 AM PDT by skinkinthegrass ("Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid." Hedy Lamarr)
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To: Bryanw92

Maybe, but the rainbow Mohawk I described could considered queer, plus his overt discrimination against the Mohawks could be considered racist, on the part of the principal.

C’mon kids...get-er-done!

One good lawsuit against the racist-homophobic principal, and you could be set for life.


31 posted on 03/28/2015 8:22:36 AM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves Month")
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To: ROCKLOBSTER

So where’s the school board?


32 posted on 03/28/2015 8:24:32 AM PDT by DaveA37
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To: Leroy S. Mort
"Soul-crushing"?. Oh, please...

So I can come over to your house and tell you what to wear and how to cut your hair? No objections, right?

33 posted on 03/28/2015 8:25:23 AM PDT by southern rock
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To: DaveA37

That’s an iffy proposition. Some “school boards” are simply front-loaded with political hacks, who only serve the interests of the corrupt educRATs.


34 posted on 03/28/2015 8:27:09 AM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves Month")
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To: Salman

From the Student Handbook: “9) No Mohawk haircuts or other extreme cuts.”

http://www.warrenschools.com/BRME


35 posted on 03/28/2015 8:27:47 AM PDT by Labyrinthos
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To: Salman

Is there ANY doubt that if he had come to school with a dress and makeup on ... he would have been embraced and protected!


36 posted on 03/28/2015 8:31:39 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (Obama lied .. the economy died.)
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To: southern rock; All
Do you support school uniforms?
Yes..as to supporting speaking "urban slang / jive" in ...
school / spike haircuts / drag-@$$ pants / accepted "drugs"..
oh! Stds: white / black combination clothing

37 posted on 03/28/2015 8:32:16 AM PDT by skinkinthegrass ("Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid." Hedy Lamarr)
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To: Salman

We should all feel shame over this.

Our forefathers would have taken that teacher and beaten his ass, tarred and feathered him and run him out of town on a rail.

Then feminism and legalism took hold of our culture.

Now we let lawyers and estrogen solve our problems.

I don’t see too many problems like these being “solved,” ie. resolved in favor of the liberties of the individual.

Welcome to Marxist hell. Now home school the kid.


38 posted on 03/28/2015 8:32:45 AM PDT by normbal (normbal. somewhere in socialist occupied America)
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To: Labyrinthos
From the Student Handbook: “9) No Mohawk haircuts or other extreme cuts.”

What even gives a public school the right to make a rule like that? Isn't a child's hair the parent's prerogative?

Of course, there are many Freepers who support these kind of rules in the public schools. I have argued with them several times. They now have no right to bitch and moan here over this.

39 posted on 03/28/2015 8:33:58 AM PDT by southern rock
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To: Salman

Educators have again proven that as a whole they are dumber then the average box of rocks. They can’t educate but they can sure pick on the kids they are “SUPPOSED” to be teaching. A-holes all and before I get some flame for that statement there had better be some proof that the statement is wrong. Educations levels drop every year but because we keep lowering standards so the “educators” say they are getting better, HA!

And now we have Common Core. Wow that ought to improve things. NOT


40 posted on 03/28/2015 8:34:18 AM PDT by JayAr36 (Reagan said, "Government is the problem." And it certainly is!)
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