Boy is suspended from school for wearing lipstick and eye makeup

The Daily Bulletin ^ | April 12, 2005 | By Irma Lemus, Staff Writer

[meandog]

Boy suspended from school for wearing makeup and lipstick

By Irma Lemus, Staff Writer

SAN BERNARDINO - In what is shaping as a battle between conformity and self-expression, Pacific High School has suspended a ninth-grade boy for wearing lipstick and eye makeup.

Officials are calling it a violation of school policy, which they seemed unable to find in writing...

James Herndon, 16, repeating his second year at the school, and his mother, Valerie Wallace, say James has been wearing black lipstick and red eye makeup the entire time he has been enrolled at Pacific. He also wears his hair in a dyed-red mohawk with the sides shaved. But that was not cited as part of the reason for the five-day suspension, which was imposed Monday.

[meandog]

...Kid is repeating a grade, has maintained poor performance, is disruptive but, yet, the ACLU wants to "protect" him from discrimination.

[mlc9852]

I wonder if his dad is okay with this?

[Keith in Iowa]

See also: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1383757/posts

Leave the kind in school as an example of what kids ought NOT do with their lives...

[Mears]

I'm surprised he makes it to and from school in one piece.

[loborojo]

Future leader of the Democratic Party?

[The Red Baron]

[nuffsenuff]

LOL!

[ozzymandus]

I'll bet he gets really mad when people laugh at him, too. Looks like a potential school shooter to me. Thanks a bunch, Mom.

[Romanov]

He sure is getting the attention he wanted.

[DoctorMichael]

Ostensibly he's at school to learn a curriculum not to 'Self-Express'.

[Romanov]

And I use the term "he" loosely!

[meandog]

I did a search...but didn't come up with the prior posted article.

[MisterRepublican]

A typical member of the Democratic Underground.

[sierrahome]

Why is it that my daughter won't bring home a nice boy like this. ;-)

[Laura Earl]

Fat drunk and stupid is no way to go thru life son.

[lilylangtree]

My son wanted to dress like this kid when he was in HS but I said "N-O NO!" Instead, he snookered me into the baggy pants theme.

[griswold3]

The ACLU? I heard somewhere his makeup was attributed to a religious practice.

[AD from SpringBay]

I wonder if his dad is okay with this?

How dare you draw attention to that!! What are you, some kind of old timey do-gooder. That boy doesn't need a dad. He and his mother are making it just fine, thank you very much. Children today have the public schools and the rest of the village to help them along. The idea that input from the "biological" father might be required is an out-dated way of thinking and you, mlC9852, should never bring the topic up again, or expect mention of it from a newspaper.

[retrokitten]

Oh, I see- he's an idiot.