Posted on 01/15/2010 8:47:40 AM PST by JoeProBono
MESQUITE, Texas, Jan. 14 (UPI) -- The parents of a Texas 4-year-old whose hair was declared a violation of school dress code said they may remove him from the school.
Ian Halprin, a spokesman for Mesquite Independent School District, said Wednesday Taylor Pugh -- who has been receiving one-on-one instruction in the Floyd Elementary School library since his hair was declared a violation of district dress code late last year -- could be placed in in-school suspension or in the school office and lose his individual instruction as early as next week, The Dallas Morning News reported Thursday.
The boy's parents, Delton Pugh and Elizabeth Taylor, said in response they may simply keep the boy home from his pre-kindergarten class. They said they have no intention of cutting the boy's hair.
District dress code guidelines do not allow for boys to wear hair long enough to reach past their shirt collars.
"If he's not supervised, if he's not learning, there's no reason to leave him there," the boy's mother said.
The parents said Taylor can't wear his hair in braids, a compromise offered by the district, because it hurts his scalp.
There's a difference?
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Hate to say it, but Taylor’s parents are nuts. I guess they don’t want Taylor to form any lasting friendships as a child. Being that long-haired sissy boy is really not going help Taylor grow. Shoosh, cut his damn hair. Its cute at 3, but by 4 the kid is becoming his own person. Don’t make him carry a cross through this time.
A government school has no business dictating how long a kid’s hair can be, assuming it’s not so bizarre as to constitute a classroom disruption or safety hazard. Then again, a government school has no business existing in the first place. Send ALL the kids home and shut down.
LOL!
Finally, someone with common sense! Schools may be able to dictate the dress code, but hair is part of the body, not clothing.
A government school has no business dictating how long a kid’s hair can be
Well, if you believe the schools’ mission is to achieve “self expression” among its students, then your point is spot on. Please consider the alternative mission of teaching students to achieve “self mastery” and your point is 180 degrees off. One of the largest reasons people do not submit their children to public schools is they percieve the public schools have devolved into nothing more than a “baby sitting service” that revells in self expression and self esteem. I pay tuition so that my son will achieve “self mastery” and can then lead a productive and individual life of meaning. The problem here is the father is teaching his son to be a self expressive little turd. This is unfair to the son. Let him blend in so that he (the son) can chose what he wants to become, not the father. Shoosh.
>>>I had to look twice to make sure I was at Free Republic. A government-run school tells a family to cut their son’s hair and everyone here rallies around the school district? Over hair length? C’mon people!
Finally, someone with common sense! Schools may be able to dictate the dress code, but hair is part of the body, not clothing.<<<
I, too, am amazed by how many “small government”, “freedom loving”, “patriots” want the government to micromanage the length of a child’s hair.
Old balding guys are the ugliest creatures alive when they have long hair tied back in a pony tail. I keep mine shaved off and never did have really long hair even when young. I find it much easier in my old age to keep it fuzzed down to a crew cut hair style.
News flash for all you do gooders. His hair has nothing to do with his character or the character of his parents. They are not trying to force the other boys to wear long hair, only to exercise their God given right to determine how their children wear their hair. The government has no right to force you to cut your kid's hair. 4 is way to young to be in school anyway.
How about a purple mohawk and a bone through the nose? Just taking the trip down the slippery slope...
You must be an annex.
Well, if you believe the schools’ mission is to achieve “self expression” among its students, then your point is spot on.
Similarly you personally should stop advocating that nuns and Jews be burned in pile in the street. Really, it's offensive equalitybeforethelaw.
We know you say that because you don't like hair and the Nazis wore short hair.
Since you just took a phrase in Sloths post, and insisted that it means something he didn't say which could be offensive, then you have set the standard in which it is perfectly okay for me or anyone else to do the same.
That's your version of debate and we are all perfectly willing to do it your way, well except the Nuns and the Jews.
You want to debate whether or not your post did what I just accused you of?
I am up to it.
IMO, you're confusing conservatives with libertarians. True conservatives place some value on having some standards that people are expected to conform to in order to achieve a more cohesive society.
Libertarians aren't necessarily conservatives. Libertarians can include those rebellious hippies that don't want anybody telling them how long they can wear their hair. Hippies don't generally fall in the category of conservatives.
I deny that either of these is a reasonable goal for government schools. The goal, if there must be one at all, should be imparting academic knowledge & skills, like arithmetic. I do not see where hair length has any bearing on that. Self-mastery should be taught by parents.
Well, then your ‘take’ would be wrong. The judgement here seems to be on the parents and a whole lot of assumptions about what this kid will grow up to be if his hair touches his shoulders. For pete’s sakes it is NOT that long.
I remember that in primary school we girls were not allowed to wear slacks. My mom bought me a pair and my second grade teacher admonished me for wearing them. I cried and she caved. Now jeans are everywhere. And I didn’t grow up to be a hippie, feminista. They were just pants. And my mom was far from a radical.
Oh, and chew on the fact that they’re making this boy tie his hair up. My, my that could cause homosexual or cross-dressing tendencies later in life. And it would be the school’s fault.
I'd rather my kid look like that then have a government paid bureaucrat dictate his physical appearance.
Hippies do have the right to grow their hair as long as they want. No person who thinks it is appropriate for the government to dictate citizens' hair length is anything remotely like a conservative. They are instead leftist totalitarians who have made the state their god.
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