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Student suspended over hair design
San Antonio Express-News ^
| By Jenny LaCoste-Caputo - Express-News
Posted on 04/29/2010 8:53:26 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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To: Responsibility2nd
When I was a kid, all my schools had a dress and appearance code. Obedience to it showed respect for authority that the students would need in the workplace. I don’t see anything wrong with this restriction.
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posted on
04/29/2010 9:14:11 AM PDT
by
laweeks
To: Responsibility2nd
OK, so who's the bigger idiot here? The school or the parents?The principal overreacted, but mom's a pretty big idiot.
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posted on
04/29/2010 9:15:13 AM PDT
by
MEGoody
(Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.)
To: dfwgator
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posted on
04/29/2010 9:16:47 AM PDT
by
rlmorel
(We are traveling "The Road to Serfdom".)
To: freedumb2003
I didn’t say it was a Constitutional issue... just that the kid should learn to read so he can read the Constitution... that was my only point.
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posted on
04/29/2010 9:19:50 AM PDT
by
rhombus
To: Responsibility2nd
I think everyone is missing something here.
That looks like some of those stupid looking letter/symbols that you see in gang graffetti where brain-dead yoots mark "their" turf.
I'll take the school's side on this.
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posted on
04/29/2010 9:22:20 AM PDT
by
Slump Tester
(What if I'm pregnant Teddy? Errr-ahh -Calm down Mary Jo, we'll cross that bridge when we come to it)
To: rhombus
>>just that the kid should learn to read so he can read the Constitution... that was my only point.<<
Ah. Sorry if I over-interpreted... :)
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posted on
04/29/2010 9:23:17 AM PDT
by
freedumb2003
(Craven spirits wear their master's collars but real men would rather feed the battlefield's vultures)
To: Hodar
The schools task in life is to prepare the children with the fundamentals the kids will need to learn in life, things like Reading, Writing and Arithmatec But not spelling? ;)
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posted on
04/29/2010 9:24:35 AM PDT
by
freedumb2003
(Craven spirits wear their master's collars but real men would rather feed the battlefield's vultures)
To: freedumb2003
No prob, I wasn’t very clear.
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posted on
04/29/2010 9:25:05 AM PDT
by
rhombus
To: Anitius Severinus Boethius
If not a gang symbol who cares? It is neat and not particularly standing out. Home schooling certainly has its benefits. But one should not need to home school over such piddling differences.
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posted on
04/29/2010 9:25:57 AM PDT
by
handmade
To: Responsibility2nd
Hooray for the school...
Shave the kid's head...
Buy the parents an "Etch-a-Sketch" to vent their "design" obsession so they don't have to draw on their kids head for their own, selfish expression. They should try bumper stickers or something. Or, the parents could just "grow up" themselves.
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posted on
04/29/2010 9:29:01 AM PDT
by
FrankR
(Standing up against tyranny must start somewhere, or the future will belong to the tyrants.)
To: Reddy
You must be either a kid, or you are NOT a parent.
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posted on
04/29/2010 9:29:50 AM PDT
by
Ann Archy
(Abortion,,,,,,the Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
To: Responsibility2nd
The kid looks like a dangerous gang member. Maybe he should join a Tea Party.
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posted on
04/29/2010 9:30:07 AM PDT
by
dead
(I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
To: dfwgator; rlmorel
LOL. Some years back a colleague of mine visited a company in California (name withheld) on a business trip. Upon his return, he observed that as best he could tell the only thing their dress code prohibited was exposed genitalia. He said the visit was “interesting”.
To: Responsibility2nd
that symbol means something. Does anyone recognize it? I didn’t see the answer in the article (big surprize - bad journalism)
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posted on
04/29/2010 9:37:43 AM PDT
by
DollyCali
(Don't tell God how big your storm is...Tell the storm how big your God is!)
To: Responsibility2nd
That symbol has some kind of significance. I’m not sure what it is, but the parents wouldn’t just tell the barber to throw some random shape on the kid’s head. Maybe they’re just big “The Artist Formerly Known As Prince” fans? How would you go about finding out exactly what that symbol represents?
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posted on
04/29/2010 9:41:52 AM PDT
by
TruthHound
("He who does not punish evil commands it to be done." --Leonardo da Vinci)
To: Responsibility2nd
Glue a merkin to his head and send him back to school.
To: Responsibility2nd
School administration told Gray on Monday that they had been considering specifically banning hair designs, but hadn't put anything in writing yet. A letter dated Monday came home with Tyran on Wednesday with specific examples of hairstyles considered distracting or disruptive, including designs cut into the hair. If school had not yet put out something in writing, the the school is at fault.
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posted on
04/29/2010 9:54:18 AM PDT
by
KosmicKitty
(WARNING: Hormonally crazed woman ahead!!)
To: Responsibility2nd
They should have just told the parents: “Don’t do that again” and allowed him to keep coming to class.
It’s not that “distracting” and the kid is 5.
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posted on
04/29/2010 9:57:28 AM PDT
by
Persevero
(If man evolved from monkeys and apes, why do we still have monkeys and apes?)
To: TruthHound
*facepalm*
Alright...for those of you who have no clue let me explain a few things. Black kids have been getting this done for a long time, it is VERY VERY VERY common. The biggest issue here is that the principle had a problem with it. When I was little I used to ask the barber to cut a few straight lines over my right temple (ah the 80’s). I went to a mostly white school and no one had a problem with it.
Now if the school changed their policy that’s a differnet matter but I would consider the matter BY FAR common enough that a person should be ok to assume it’s ok to do it.
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posted on
04/29/2010 10:31:41 AM PDT
by
Raymann
To: Raymann
I have absolutely no problem with the style. It’s actually very cool. I see it all the time.
I just want to be sure there’s no secret or inappropriate message being relayed in that symbol.
But whether or not it has any sublime meaning, I support the school’s right to restrict any display of symbolism on campus. Even a Raiders shirt has a gang turf overtone here in L.A. and school officials are 100% correct to forbid it.
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posted on
04/29/2010 11:02:44 AM PDT
by
TruthHound
("He who does not punish evil commands it to be done." --Leonardo da Vinci)
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