Posted on 02/27/2008 4:56:15 AM PST by E Rocc
PARMA, Ohio -- A kindergarten student with a freshly spiked Mohawk haircut has been suspended by school authorities who said the hair was a distraction for other students.
Michelle Barile, the mother of 6-year-old Bryan Ruda, said nothing in the Parma Community School handbook prohibits the haircut, characterized by closely shaved sides with a strip of prominent hair on top.
"I understand they have a dress code. I understand he has a uniform. But this is total discrimination," she said. "They can't tell me how I can cut his hair."
An administrator at the suburban Cleveland charter school first warned Barile last fall that the haircut wasn't acceptable. The school later sent another warning to her reiterating the ban.
Mohawks violate the school's policy on being properly groomed, school Principal Linda Geyer said. Also, the school district's dress code doesn't mention Mohawks, but it does allow school officials to forbid anything that interferes with the conduct of education.
Ruda's hair became a disruption on Thursday when Ruda arrived freshly shorn, Geyer said. Administrators called Barile on Friday telling her to pick Ruda up from school.
"This was his third infraction," Geyer said Tuesday. "We felt that we were being extremely patient."
Rather than request a hearing to appeal the suspension, Barile said she'll enroll him at another school. Changing the hairstyle is not an option, she said.
"It's something that he really likes," Barile said. "When people hear Mohawk, they think it's long, it's spiked, it's crazy looking, and it's really not."
Sounds like another kid in serious need of a two-parent family.”
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He probably has 6 “siblings” of assorted paternity as well.
Kid will be a loser....overbearing nanny-mom pulling him out of the only disciplined environment he has....harbinger of more to come. She’ll hock her Chevy when he’s 16 to keep him from going to the detention center.
Money comes from the state just like a District School. So here in MI, each child accounts for 7500.00 to the school. A private company educates the children. If they can do it for 3000.00 per child, the rest is profit. (Homeschooling, I do it on 300.00 a year)
Not a lot of unions in a Charter so they aren’t paying the janitor 14.00 an hour. Most times the teachers are paid less as well.
It is a GREAT education. Everyone I know that took their kids out of charters and put them into the District schools found that they were well ahead of their peers.
Yes, the other parents are. Being a parent in one of those schools you AGREE to a set of rules. If one kid breaks them, it snowballs.
Now you may not like that idea, but the parents with kids in charters do. If someone doesn’t like the rules they have an option to send their kids to a District school.
see?
But spiking can be mild, as in 1” hair stood up using gel all through it which places very thin “spikes” evenly distributed in a more natural manner (I know, I had spikes in HS and my nephew grew up with them for most part).
The descriptions are a bit conflicting. Pictures, please!
But the story has the words, “Charter School,” and, “Discrimination,” in it. That’s why it’s in the news. Doesn’t matter what the boy’s Mom says.
*retch*
Friggin’ enemedia.
Huh! Thanks for the information... I didn’t know. :)
Those settlers who got a haircut by a Mohawk generally found it a bit disturbing.
You see this over and over again. People demand individual expression and diversity, so institutions must eliminate all standards which make them unique and become just like every other institution. The result is a bland sameness of everything.
A uniform policy of a charter school is designed to set the children apart from main-stream society and eliminate distractions. If the policy is defeated (and that is what all this acting-out on the part of the mother is all about), the charter school loses it’s particular identity and becomes more like every other school. Once again, the demand for diversity leads to uniformity.
And I am very critical of public education and their indoctrination as a rule.
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And this is a ridiculous, ludicrous, bull-headed statement.
Perhaps, but practically speaking, it's going to be a little hard to do anything with that kid's head for the next several weeks, short of shaving it completely....
Kids probably a Damon Jones fan. Go Cavs!
Freaking hippie attention whore in training.
That is one ugly hair cut.
You are correct, my FRiend!
Some parents like to push the boundaries and then wonder why their kids turn out disrespectful of others.
No problem! The NEA HATES these schools and fights them tooth and nail.
Gotta wonder about the kid’s mom—if you’re picking battles this would seem to be kind of a dumb one to get involved in.
But now her little darling is famous—without accomplishing anything. And his self-esteem is, no doubt, healthier than ever. That’s the American way, circa 2008.
Oh well. Another life lesson for little Bryan Ruda-Mohawk wearer, center of the known universe, and no doubt, a potential contender for the Dylan Klebald Award for 2017.
He should have been suspended, he parents must be idiots, schools don’t need this kind of distraction.
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