Posted on 03/26/2015 12:34:14 PM PDT by Timber Rattler
Adam Stinnett looks up to his older stepbrother – a soldier in the U.S. Army. So when it came time to get a haircut, the seven-year-old told his mother he wanted a basic military-style cut. And that’s exactly what he got – high and tight – just like his stepbrother.
Adam got his haircut on March 8. On March 9, his mother got a letter from the principal of Bobby Ray Memorial Elementary School in McMinnville, Tennessee.
It seems they were not all that thrilled with the second grader’s new hairdo. The principal told Amy Stinnett that her son’s haircut was distracting – and needed to be fixed.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
He is a she. Take a look at the picture at the link.
ALL WEBSITES CONNECTED TO THE SCHOOL AND MS RAMSEY HAVE BEEN SHUT DOWN!
Wonder if they will answer the PHONE today.
Facebook on my wife’s account was all over this last night. It must have been viral from the word go...........
Tsk, it seems their server is a bit taxed, this morning. Pity.
You can take down your web site, but you can’t hide from the internet. Phone:(931) 473-9006, Fax: 931-815-2703 Time to add MORE DISTRESS. The school district has taken down its Facebook page, school page after a deluge of comments, said Bobby Cox, the district’s director of schools. He said the messages were “not necessarily threatening” but added to an incident that had caused the district “great stress.”
http://www.armytimes.com/story/military/2015/03/26/adam-stinnett-haircut-suspension-threat/70492048/
His mother, Amy Stinnett, said he’d requested the high and tight to be more like Spc. Justin Bloodworth, his active-duty stepbrother.
Adam was written up by the principal, who thought the haircut was against school policy banning “mohawk haircuts or other extreme cuts.”
Amy Stinnett disagreed. Adam went back Tuesday with the same haircut.
After his mother received an email from the principal and stopped by for a face-to-face chat, it was made clear that Adam’s hairstyle would have to change before he returned to school.
With so much hair already gone, his mother had few options.
“I did shave his head,” Stinnett said Thursday. “With no hair, he looks sick all the time.”
The incident upset Adam, who wants to follow Bloodworth’s path into military service, his mother said.
“They crushed my son’s dreams,” she said of the school officials. “They made him feel upset. They broke his heart. He didn’t deserve that.”
You must have hit the website BEFORE ALL of them were shut down. You did not happen to get a photo of the PC Anti-Military witch did you?
The Warren Co web site along with any websites connected to the Bobby Ray Elementary school have been DISABLED! But if you are patient a few facts show up. Including phone and fax numbers. It might be a waste of time, but contacting the State Rep or Senator might be profitable. They use a form system to keep angry constituents from contacting them easy. LT GOV email lt.gov.ron.ramsey@capitol.tn.gov
http://www.legislature.state.tn.us/
Bobby Ray Memorial
Elementary School,
Phone:(931) 473-9006,
Fax: 931-815-2703
Address: 504 N Chancery St, McMinnville, TN 37110
Beverly Ramsey is listed as Adm or principal.
Blood, ALL related web sites have been DISABLED. That is how much heat has already been generated.
Can’t find a photo of the PC Anti-Military witch on line anywhere.
Beverly Ramsey, any idea of she is related to our LT Gov Ron Ramsey?
Story did not make Memphis TV media, but then they never do. Memphis has it’s own 15 min of shame news on murders, robberies, shootings and corrupt politicians mostly D’s.
Much of last nights news a black Pol didn’t catch how or what type of Pol he was, pushing for casinos in Memphis, while Tunica, MS is shutting several of their down due to the 0 destroyed economy. Supposedly the answer to school funding.
And if you believe that will solve the woes of school funding, I have ocean front property in Death Valley to sell.
Hospital Corpsman Second Class, U.S. Navy
http://www.leatherneck.com/forums/showthread.php?67618-HM2-David-R-%28Bobby%29-Ray
BTW The school’s gymnasium bears the name of Spc. Jeremy L. Brown, who died in Afghanistan in 2010 when his unit was attacked by small-arms fire.
http://thefallen.militarytimes.com/army-spc-jeremy-l-brown/4622026
ALL links that lead to the school, personnel etc has BEEN DISABLED. You did not happen to save the photo to post?
The Radio Talk show in Nashville caused their sites to be bombarded and they don’t want to hear our anger of this.
Living near a Naval base, being the spouse of a Ret SCPO, there is NOTING offensive about a High and Tight. Which is allowed AFTER Boot Camp.
Sure beats the dreds, weird colors, that some think is OK for a child of 7 to wear.
You nailed the witch’s photo. Must have done it fast and saved it.
As ALL school related websites have been DISABLED due to the OUTRAGE that the Nashville Talk Radio engendered.
All the posted links are not working, this is the only photo that is posted that is not blanked out.
These idiots don’t understand we use the internet as a weapon. Which is why they DISABLED ALL web sites and email to counter the OUTRAGE of Conservatives who are Pro Military. Bet the phone/fax are either on overload or shut down like the Internet and email is.
Phone:(931) 473-9006,
Fax: 931-815-2703
Story went viral fast after the Nashville Talk Radio got hold of it. Same thing happened when the Gen Assembly tried to stealthy impose a Unconstitutional State Income Tax.
Townhall, Army Times, all carry the story this morning. The AT has the best statements.
http://www.armytimes.com/story/military/2015/03/26/adam-stinnett-haircut-suspension-threat/70492048/
His mother, Amy Stinnett, said he’d requested the high and tight to be more like Spc. Justin Bloodworth, his active-duty stepbrother.
Adam was written up by the principal, who thought the haircut was against school policy banning “mohawk haircuts or other extreme cuts.”
Amy Stinnett disagreed. Adam went back Tuesday with the same haircut.
After his mother received an email from the principal and stopped by for a face-to-face chat, it was made clear that Adam’s hairstyle would have to change before he returned to school.
With so much hair already gone, his mother had few options.
“I did shave his head,” Stinnett said Thursday. “With no hair, he looks sick all the time.”
The incident upset Adam, who wants to follow Bloodworth’s path into military service, his mother said.
“They crushed my son’s dreams,” she said of the school officials. “They made him feel upset. They broke his heart. He didn’t deserve that.”
My email to her went through, but I doubt she read what I had to say. This was not an error in judgement. Her decision was driven by the twisted ideology we rail against here. This woman represents everything wrong in the country today. That she is in charge of young minds in an environment dedicated to "education" is alarming and unfortunate. I wonder if the system will do the right thing or just hunker down and hope this blows over. I am so sick of this crap from the government schools we pay for.
You got it. I moved a copy to TinyPics. . . an image server service I use, figuring it might be pulled rather quickly. I know how they will circle the wagons in protection mode.
Perhaps the ugliness is one of the condition of her opinions. Remember that beauty is only skin deep, but I have met some very beautiful people who hold extremely butt ugly opinions all the way to the bone. . . and who are not afraid to let everyone know about those opinions; they reek of them as the opinions ooze out of their pores.
Next time, try downloading to your computer first, then upload to photobucket. That should work. For other pictures that are completely non-downloadable, do a constrained area screen-capture. On a Mac, you do that by pressing CMD/SHFT/4, then dragging the cursor which turns into a cross hair reticule, to form a rectangular box encompassing the area and then clicking when you have finished outlining the area you want. It saves the image to your desktop where you can rename it and then move it where you want to save it for future use, or then upload to your photobucket account.
BE VERY CAREFUL you do not capture and re-post any photos that are claimed to be copyrighted by Getty Images. They are relentless in pursuing absurdly high demands for royalties for using even a fraction of an inch of one of their images, no matter how modified, on the web.. . even if there is no claim of copyright on the image itself, no matter where you find it. Getty employs Google like web searching bots scouring the internet for any portion of a photo image that matches any portion of one of their photos in their catalog of millions of photos. . . and if it finds even a 1/8" by 1/8", rotated, color changed, and majorly enhanced cropped piece of one of their photos, they will send a demand letter for thousands of dollars for a license and punitive damages in lieu of a lawsuit for copyright infringement.
An office, which I manage under contract, had a web designer come in one day several years ago, un-announced, and try to sell us on his skills as a web site for our office. He had done a mock-up and uploaded it to his domain to show us. In his mock-up he had used a photo of some hills which he had changed to match our office decor colors. IWe had not impressed with his work and said no.
Three years later we received a DEMAND letter for $3600 for his use of a portion of a Getty Image because, they said, the image was used for commercial use for our benefit. t turned out the photo on the web-designer's mock-up was a portion—about a quarter—of an unattributed, and non-copyrighted attached, Getty Image which he had found somewhere on the web and had used without permission. I called the number and explained the circumstances and they did not care. As far as they were concerned, it was our office's name was on the web-site, it was on the Internet, and even though the web-site was private, the image had been used for commercial purposes (the offer to us for our use), ergo, WE owed them the money. i pointed out that we did not own the domain, had not ordered the design, had not even requested the work. Didn't matter, pay up!
Over the next five years they kept up sending demand letters. We had our in-house attorney send them a letter citing the facts and that didn't matter either. They lowered their demand to $1600. They sent it to a collections agency. Then to a law firm and raised the demand to over $30,000 under threat of lawsuit. They have never won a case in court. It is all saber rattling.
And I saved what you posted to my hard drive.
I’ve used TinyPics for a couple of photos I needed a URL for.
Boy did they circle the wagons fast. They learned how fast we can react when they tried the middle of the night institution of a Unconstitutional State Income Tax.
Thousands from all over the State spent days circling the Capitol Bldg in protest. Taxquist..i.e. Sundquist called out the well armored and armed storm troopers on peaceful demonstrators, trying to intermediate us. Didn’t work then. And shutting down the websites and email won’t work with this.
There is enough stuff online to get the phone/fax and address of the school that the US Mail can deliver letters to.
Many Conservative Tennesseans are very vocal, even if all they can do is a phone call or email. Emails to me to officials are usually a waste of time. It is one of the reasons the Pols have gone to form emails making it harder for constituents to reach them, especially those out of their district. You have to have a address in their district with a zip code to reach them.
They will hunker down for sure. The most that will happen is a insincere general apology that is meaningless in wording. School Board will move her to another school thinking they solved the problem.
People forget the Military community is a very tight knit community and we don’t take this kind of stuff being done to our children well.
What needs to happen is the Military Bikers show up and circle the block with in the law all day. The VFW and AM Legion come out and condemn her actions.
Some one needs to ask why the other child with the same Military High and Tight haircut was not included. Why just this one 7 year old was the target. Did the mom make the principal mad thus making her child the Witch’s target. The Mom has not been shy about using the media.
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