[greatdefender]

Coach Stacy Meyer

[GeronL]

If a 5th grade girl can be kicked off the cheerleading squad for objecting to doing the “booty call” dance, then players can be made to have appropriate haircuts.

[US Navy Vet]

DWEEB!

[MissTed]

There shouldn't be rules. They can hurt someone's feelings.

/S

[dfwgator]

And what’s up with all the black football players now with the dreadlocks going all the down to their shoulders?

[RU88]

The parents should be made to pay the costs of this school district's defense after this gets thrown out on its ear. Participation in school sports is a privilege, not a right. By the parents standards I should have the right to sue because my four foot tall 85lb. child didn't make the varsity football team!

[madprof98]

I think what we need are confiscatory taxes on lawyers. I’d say about 110% of their income would be about right.

[svcw]

I don’t get it. Tell him he has to pull it back when he playing and that’s it.

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

The coach abd/or the school are entirely within their rights to enact whatever rule(s) they see fit, in the pursuit of competitiveness... team unity... whatever, so long as said edicts do not violate existing law. Which this rule, plainly, does not.

That much being freely granted, however: the only genuinely relevant question, were it up to me, would be "Is he one of the five best players I can have on the floor, right here, right now...?"

[day10]

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.

It appears that the rules were set beforehand and this kid was aware. Throw the case out.

[aruanan]

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"?

[dfwgator]

"My basketball coach, he done kicked me off the team, for wearing high heeled sneakers and acting like a queen...."

[DesertRhino]

The Dweeb, of course there should be rules. But of *what possible interest* does an agent of the state have in telling a school kid how to style their hair?

It’s designed to teach him to submit to airport patdowns, to obey, to be a good sheep.

[gusty]

This coach looks like a real P***y. I played high school thru low minor league baseball thru the late 70’s early 80’s when long hair was normal. Some players looked like bikers with fu manchus, beards and long hair. Every coach or manager I had who was concerned with hair was a loser. They were more concerned with how you looked than how you played. By the way what kind of a man has a name Stacy.

[wintertime]

Solution: Privatize **all** k-12 education. Privatize **all** sports.

End of problem!

What's needed here is complete separation of school and state. Hairstyle matters would be handled privately between the parents and the **PRIVATE** school administrators. If the parents didn't like it, they could find a **PRIVATE** school more to their liking.

[Irish Owl]

Cameron Smith writes: “Obviously, the player and his parents decided to fight for his rights rather than acquiesce to the extracurricular policy’s claim that a player’s hair be above his eyebrows, collars and ears.”

“Obviously???” Am I missing something here, other than the clueless myopia of the author? Why is it “obvious” that the player and his family would fight for his “rights” rather than comply with a rule? It would also help if Smith would specify exactly what “rights” were violated by the rule.

At my HS, a student’s hair could not touch his collar. That rule applied whether or not a student publicly represented the school in extracurricular activities. There was no more a “right” to longer hair than there was a “right” to show up at noon every day.

It doesn’t sound like this kid wants to be part of any team.