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And what does a beard have to do with his ability to learn the subjects he needs to learn?

Apparently nothing. He has a 4.0 grade average. How many kids can say that today? I had a 4.0 average too at one time, but it was called a straight A average, they hadn’t started the number thing yet. Right up till high school, when I was really sick of school altogether, had a lot of personal problems, and was turning into a really rebellious little snot.

I was forced to cut my hair to go to school my senior year and didn’t like it a bit. I asked the same question, what does my hair have to do with my ability to learn? Nobody had a good answer, just “that’s the rules”.

So 40 years later, my niece had 3 kids in school, the local school board decided on a dress code of khaki pants and green shirts. The parents hated the idea, went to school board meetings and made it very clear, the school board did it anyway against the wishes of too many parents for the school board meetings to hold. Now all the kids look like little clones of each other. It all started with cut your hair.

Sure we have to have rules, kids need discipline, but stupid rules are still stupid rules. I’ve refused to accept jobs when the company had no legitimate safety reason to require me to shave off my beard. Hell no, you can’t tell me what I’m supposed to look like. This is not the military. Keep your job, my beard has no bearing on my ability to do my job.

I hate dress codes, kids are there to learn, not be little clones of what the school board wants. I do realize you have to have limits, can’t have girls running around in dresses that show everything, can’t have boys running around looking like total thugs, their junk hanging out, but those rules should also be realistic. There is no reason the kids should have to look like clones of every business executive in the known universe. They have individuality, they have their own tastes, dress codes like this destroy that individuality.

I suppose those of you who are putting this boy down because he refused to be a spineless sheep think he should have also been forced to wear khaki pants and a green polo shirt so he could look exactly like everyone else... Then what? Force them all dye their hair blue because you like blue hair? Maybe they should also walk...no, march...in formation in exactly 30 inch steps too. Maybe they should all be forced to use green pencils. Yellow rulers. Only brown notebooks will be allowed. They must have 127 pages. Oh and by the way tell your parents that blue car won’t work, everyone has to drive a brown one. Make it 4 door and no manual transmissions. Maybe you’ll tell them what brand it has to be too?

Sound extreme? Sure. But it all started with cut your hair. You got that, you wanted more. You got no dresses above the knee, you wanted more. You got khaki pants and green polo shirts, you wanted more. Where does it end? Where do you draw the line?

I could go on, I see it happening right now with our government. Ever wonder why you never see a politician in anything but a black suit, white shirt and the only thing different is the tie? You must conform. I have a thorough distrust of anyone in a suit. Where have suits gotten us? LBJ wore one...Nixon wore one...Clinton wore one...Obama wears one...unfortunately Trump does too. All have the regulation businessman haircut.

This boy was BORN with that hair. Are we telling God he doesn’t know what he’s doing?