Posted on 03/28/2015 7:46:30 AM PDT by Salman
There is nothing quite like the petty despotism of the public school system. A boy from McMinnville, Tennessee, was suspended after coming to Bobby Ray Memorial Elementary School with a haircut deemed inappropriate by the principal. It was a "high and tight" military-style haircut that the boy had requested so that he would look more like his step-brother, an active-duty soldier.
The principal did not budge, leaving the boy's mother no choice but to shave his head so that he could come back to school.
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And I know “mohawks”...I had one for about 30 minutes when I was 9 years old...
Long enough to walk home from the barber shop, get my butt beat by my momma, then walk BACK to the barber, tell him my momma was gonna beat him, then get the rest cut off...*L*
One of the founding fathers said they didnt want to trade 1 tyrant 3000 miles away for 3000 tyrants 1 mile any. This is a good example.
"Soul-crushing"?. Oh, please...
Contact information for the school is available here:
http://www.warrenschools.com/BRME/
This week, they will be closed due to Easter Vacation.
My dad had five of us boys and some hair clippers. We all got the same haircut until we were able to earn enough money to go to the barber.
I fixed it for the politically correct crowd.
Maybe, but the rainbow Mohawk I described could considered queer, plus his overt discrimination against the Mohawks could be considered racist, on the part of the principal.
C’mon kids...get-er-done!
One good lawsuit against the racist-homophobic principal, and you could be set for life.
So where’s the school board?
So I can come over to your house and tell you what to wear and how to cut your hair? No objections, right?
That’s an iffy proposition. Some “school boards” are simply front-loaded with political hacks, who only serve the interests of the corrupt educRATs.
From the Student Handbook: “9) No Mohawk haircuts or other extreme cuts.”
http://www.warrenschools.com/BRME
Is there ANY doubt that if he had come to school with a dress and makeup on ... he would have been embraced and protected!
We should all feel shame over this.
Our forefathers would have taken that teacher and beaten his ass, tarred and feathered him and run him out of town on a rail.
Then feminism and legalism took hold of our culture.
Now we let lawyers and estrogen solve our problems.
I don’t see too many problems like these being “solved,” ie. resolved in favor of the liberties of the individual.
Welcome to Marxist hell. Now home school the kid.
What even gives a public school the right to make a rule like that? Isn't a child's hair the parent's prerogative?
Of course, there are many Freepers who support these kind of rules in the public schools. I have argued with them several times. They now have no right to bitch and moan here over this.
Educators have again proven that as a whole they are dumber then the average box of rocks. They can’t educate but they can sure pick on the kids they are “SUPPOSED” to be teaching. A-holes all and before I get some flame for that statement there had better be some proof that the statement is wrong. Educations levels drop every year but because we keep lowering standards so the “educators” say they are getting better, HA!
And now we have Common Core. Wow that ought to improve things. NOT
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