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Teen kicked off basketball team for hairstyle(stupid parents sues school district)
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| Janurary 7, 2011
| Cameron Smith
Posted on 01/07/2011 12:47:20 PM PST by greatdefender
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To: dfwgator
And whats up with all the black football players now with the dreadlocks going all the down to their shoulders?Watch the Nuttiest Professor (E. Murphy). During his alter-ego persona his heckles a stand up comedian by referring to his braided hair as "Shi*locks"
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posted on
01/07/2011 1:31:59 PM PST
by
steveo
(PETO-VT-IN-MARI-SVB-CRVCE-AVSTRALI-SEPELIAR)
To: Domalais
Right. They simply look unkempt and dirty.
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posted on
01/07/2011 1:33:42 PM PST
by
DJ MacWoW
(America! The wolves are at your door! How will you answer the knock?)
To: DJ MacWoW
Nobody complained about mullets when they had those.
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posted on
01/07/2011 1:35:07 PM PST
by
Domalais
To: steveo
Watch the Nuttiest Professor (E. Murphy). During his alter-ego persona his heckles a stand up comedian by referring to his braided hair as "Shi*locks"
One of the kids in my 9th grader's class told another kid the other kid's twists looked like muddy Cheetos.
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posted on
01/07/2011 1:35:46 PM PST
by
aruanan
To: Gena Bukin
Some rules are about looking neat and clean. Too bad people object to putting on a good appearance. :-)
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posted on
01/07/2011 1:35:56 PM PST
by
DJ MacWoW
(America! The wolves are at your door! How will you answer the knock?)
To: greatdefender
While those relatively manic standards were applied to professionals (extremely highly compensated professionals, at that), a similar measure is now being used to keep an eighth grader off his junior high basketball team.
Wouldn't that be more "anal" than "manic"?
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posted on
01/07/2011 1:36:54 PM PST
by
aruanan
To: ReverendJames; Gena Bukin
But I guess rules are rules. Read your homepage. You, of all people, should know rules are rules. "Render unto Caesar what is Caesars".
This was an extracurricular activity. He chose to play. He should abide by the rules instead of whining like a liberal.
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posted on
01/07/2011 1:39:12 PM PST
by
DJ MacWoW
(America! The wolves are at your door! How will you answer the knock?)
To: Domalais
Nobody complained about mullets when they had those. Speak for yourself! ;-)
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posted on
01/07/2011 1:40:36 PM PST
by
DJ MacWoW
(America! The wolves are at your door! How will you answer the knock?)
To: Domalais
Nobody complained about mullets when they had those.Well they should have.
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posted on
01/07/2011 1:46:02 PM PST
by
paulycy
(The Constitution is a Formal Contract. Live up to it or lose your job, Congress.)
To: Domalais
People tend to behave IAW their attire. Without standards of behavior (incuding appearance) humans are not much different than animals.
I suspect that the professional sports breakdown in appearance standards has a lot to do with the thuggery that is going on these days. Perhgaps you haven’t taken the time to read about those things.
To: DJ MacWoW
Well I wasn’t whining as a Liberal. What I was saying was there were rules for playing and one of them was appearance according to what the school laid out. If he chose to wear his hair the way he wanted and the school said no you can’t then he and his parents can’t complain. Please re-read what I said. There was a time in the Sixties where you had to have this Dobie Gillis (look it up) type look and if you didn’t comply you were ostracized. What I was alluding to was the hair style incident that was reminiscent of that era. Rules are rules. The school set them and if you want to participate in a sport that required you to adhere to them then you have no complaints.
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posted on
01/07/2011 1:52:18 PM PST
by
ReverendJames
(Only A Lawyer, A Painter, A Politician And The Media Can Change Black To White)
To: ReverendJames
Well I wasnt whining as a Liberal. No the kid was.
where you had to have this Dobie Gillis (look it up) type look
I remember Dobie Gillis and Maynard G Krebbs. LOL
The school set them and if you want to participate in a sport that required you to adhere to them then you have no complaints.
50 years ago his parents would have told him to comply or shut up.
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posted on
01/07/2011 2:09:54 PM PST
by
DJ MacWoW
(America! The wolves are at your door! How will you answer the knock?)
To: DJ MacWoW
Sorry, my bad. Re-read your post re: liberal whining. I guess that Dobie Gillis thing dated me but I remember the show when I was a kid. Everyone at school tried to emulate him. I even had a plaid shirt and a white sweater. LOL!
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posted on
01/07/2011 2:12:56 PM PST
by
ReverendJames
(Only A Lawyer, A Painter, A Politician And The Media Can Change Black To White)
To: DJ MacWoW
PS - our bad was wearing jeans to school.
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posted on
01/07/2011 2:13:31 PM PST
by
ReverendJames
(Only A Lawyer, A Painter, A Politician And The Media Can Change Black To White)
To: ReverendJames
Jeans were taboo. The girls had to wear skirts or dresses. I remember my freshman year a girl wore a “skort”. Her mother had to bring a skirt to school. She wasn’t allowed in class until she was properly dressed.
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posted on
01/07/2011 2:36:28 PM PST
by
DJ MacWoW
(America! The wolves are at your door! How will you answer the knock?)
To: greatdefender
"My basketball coach, he done kicked me off the team, for wearing high heeled sneakers and acting like a queen...."
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posted on
01/07/2011 2:38:26 PM PST
by
dfwgator
To: DJ MacWoW
Then there was the kneeling down and the dress hem had to touch the floor otherwise it was too short. Guys were in Dockers. Good grief! We used to lock up nerds in their lockers!!
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posted on
01/07/2011 2:43:45 PM PST
by
ReverendJames
(Only A Lawyer, A Painter, A Politician And The Media Can Change Black To White)
To: ReverendJames
Guys wore trousers when I was in school. No one knew what Dockers were as they didn’t exist yet. lol
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posted on
01/07/2011 2:47:34 PM PST
by
DJ MacWoW
(America! The wolves are at your door! How will you answer the knock?)
To: DJ MacWoW
After thinking about it I believe they were called Chino’s ...
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posted on
01/07/2011 2:50:20 PM PST
by
ReverendJames
(Only A Lawyer, A Painter, A Politician And The Media Can Change Black To White)
To: ReverendJames
Ah yes. Chinos rings a bell. :-)
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posted on
01/07/2011 2:58:07 PM PST
by
DJ MacWoW
(America! The wolves are at your door! How will you answer the knock?)
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