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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

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To: Kirkwood

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.


101 posted on 03/28/2015 6:04:31 PM PDT by esoxmagnum (Turtles don't win fights. Victory belongs to the aggressor, not the guy hiding in a bunker.)
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To: Salman

Why do people that hate children go into school administration and teaching?


102 posted on 03/28/2015 6:28:46 PM PDT by Trillian
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To: Salman; 2Jedismom; 6amgelsmama; AAABEST; aberaussie; AccountantMom; Aggie Mama; agrace; ...

ANOTHER REASON TO HOMESCHOOL

This ping list is for the “other” articles of interest to homeschoolers about education and public school. This can occasionally be a fairly high volume list. Articles pinged to the Another Reason to Homeschool List will be given the keyword of ARTH. (If I remember. If I forget, please feel free to add it yourself)

The main Homeschool Ping List handles the homeschool-specific articles. Metmom holds both the Homeschool Ping List and the Another Reason to Homeschool Ping list. Please freepmail Metmom if you would like to be added to or removed from either list, or both.

103 posted on 03/28/2015 8:17:06 PM PDT by Tired of Taxes
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To: southern rock

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.


104 posted on 03/28/2015 8:27:18 PM PDT by Shimmer1 (An armed society is a polite society... Robert A. Heinlein.)
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To: Leroy S. Mort

Maybe not this case, but YES, soul crushing. (in other cases)


105 posted on 03/28/2015 8:28:04 PM PDT by Shimmer1 (An armed society is a polite society... Robert A. Heinlein.)
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To: ROCKLOBSTER

Oh wow, yeah! Do I have to have a kid there to sue him or her??????? yeowww!!!

j/k


106 posted on 03/28/2015 8:29:37 PM PDT by Shimmer1 (An armed society is a polite society... Robert A. Heinlein.)
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To: southern rock

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.


107 posted on 03/28/2015 8:31:52 PM PDT by Shimmer1 (An armed society is a polite society... Robert A. Heinlein.)
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To: southern rock; Leroy S. Mort

In other words, it’s partly MY school. Well, not this particular one, but....


108 posted on 03/28/2015 8:33:45 PM PDT by Shimmer1 (An armed society is a polite society... Robert A. Heinlein.)
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To: Salman

In my day, we used to get bounced from school if our hair was too LONG.


109 posted on 03/28/2015 8:34:22 PM PDT by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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To: southern rock; momtothree

I’m native American and all my children are. We were born in America, hence: native.


110 posted on 03/28/2015 8:35:27 PM PDT by Shimmer1 (An armed society is a polite society... Robert A. Heinlein.)
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To: fireman15

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??


111 posted on 03/28/2015 8:37:04 PM PDT by Shimmer1 (An armed society is a polite society... Robert A. Heinlein.)
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To: Clintonfatigued; BillyBoy; fieldmarshaldj; NFHale; stephenjohnbanker; Bender2; GOPsterinMA

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?


112 posted on 03/28/2015 9:19:13 PM PDT by Impy (They pull a knife, you pull a gun. That's the CHICAGO WAY, and that's how you beat the rats!)
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To: esoxmagnum

Not only do I remember all of that, I still go to a barbershop where you can still get butch wax and palm combs.


113 posted on 03/29/2015 1:02:03 AM PDT by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter)
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To: Shimmer1
I support uniforms, mildly. But I don’t support this

Completely hypocritical.

114 posted on 03/29/2015 4:45:23 AM PDT by southern rock
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To: Kirkwood

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.


115 posted on 03/29/2015 4:47:21 AM PDT by esoxmagnum (Turtles don't win fights. Victory belongs to the aggressor, not the guy hiding in a bunker.)
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To: Shimmer1
There are several real issues here:

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).

116 posted on 03/29/2015 5:12:18 AM PDT by wintertime
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To: southern rock

Probably


117 posted on 03/29/2015 6:17:11 AM PDT by Shimmer1 (An armed society is a polite society... Robert A. Heinlein.)
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To: Impy; Clintonfatigued; BillyBoy; fieldmarshaldj; NFHale; stephenjohnbanker; sickoflibs

I haven’t called for the “E” word to be utilized for a while, but this represents a nice opportunity to make an example.


118 posted on 03/29/2015 7:09:32 AM PDT by GOPsterinMA (I'm with Steve McQueen: I live my life for myself and answer to nobody.)
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To: GOPsterinMA

Execution ?


119 posted on 03/29/2015 8:00:10 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: Shimmer1
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??

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.

120 posted on 03/29/2015 8:35:25 AM PDT by fireman15 (Check your facts before making ignorant statements.)
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