Well they should have.
Posted on 01/07/2011 12:47:20 PM PST by greatdefender
George Steinbrenner famously refused to let Yankees players compete with any facial hair, or "unruly" haircuts. 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.
According to a number of sources, the Indianapolis Star and Associated Press chief among them, the parents of a Greensburg (Ind.) Community Junior High School student have filed a lawsuit against the district citing discrimination against their son, who was kicked off the team because his hairstyle violated a code of appearance established by Greensburg High coach Stacy Meyer, pictured above, which was stipulated in the school's extra-curricular code.
TheIndyChannel.com reported the lawsuit claims coaches told the player he wouldn't be allowed on the court if he failed to cut his hair by a certain date. When the 14-year-old questioned why that was necessary, he was also told that he would be kicked off the team if his parents -- Patrick and Melissa Hayden -- protested the policy.
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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"
Right. They simply look unkempt and dirty.
Nobody complained about mullets when they had those.
Some rules are about looking neat and clean. Too bad people object to putting on a good appearance. :-)
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.
Speak for yourself! ;-)
Well they should have.
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.
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.
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.
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!
PS - our bad was wearing jeans to school.
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.
"My basketball coach, he done kicked me off the team, for wearing high heeled sneakers and acting like a queen...."
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!!
Guys wore trousers when I was in school. No one knew what Dockers were as they didn’t exist yet. lol
After thinking about it I believe they were called Chino’s ...
Ah yes. Chinos rings a bell. :-)
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