Posted on 04/29/2010 8:53:26 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
The school. It’s more of a distraction to have the kid stuck with in-school suspension for what apparently is a normal kid (dual language classes, seriously?).
We had kids with huge (3 foot or so) spikes in a mohawk - colored bright neon purple in my school - way back in the mid 1980’s. No one cared. It would then ( as now ) be more of a distraction to yank the idiot AW out of school.
Its just that the school rules are really arbitrary. They state they don’t want “Unconventional hairstyles” but I’ve seen designs that are far more intricate, the one he has is pretty simple and hardly unconventional.
Reminds me of the time a school suspended a girl for having a few dark red highlights that also looked very nice (again very common for black women).
And apparently this kid’s hair was too short (how, I don’t know)
http://www.rachelstavern.com/uncategorized/black-kid-suspended-for-having-short-haircut.html
Our tax dollars at work, so the kid can ‘express himself.’
My children’s school has a strict code regarding hair, especially for the boys (nothing longer than the collar, out of the eyes and above the ears). No coloring, Mohawks, or crap like the boy in the story has. My 2nd grade son’s black friend has a nice short cut (of course his dad is a conservative African immigrant).
There are uniforms worn except for free dress days, and on those days there are to be no spaghetti straps, tank tops, vulgar t-shirts, or obscenely short skirts or shorts. I have yet to hear a parent complain that their kid is not able to express themselves—they just do it through their schoolwork and artistic, athletic, or other talents.
Then again, we actually PAY for our kids to go to school, instead of shoving them out the back door for ‘free school.’ For that, we actually expect some standards to be set, which we also enforce here at home.
I’m a parent. I’ve always been pretty lenient about what my kids did with their hair, within reason. It grows out, right? :)
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