Texas students suspended for refusing haircut

[CRK7376]

I noticed this article on the Drudge Report this morning....
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=080108210454.j43titla&show_article=1

Four Texas teens were suspended from school Tuesday for refusing to get their hair cut over the Christmas break, school officials said.
The students had been warned that the district was cracking down on dress code violators after they repeatedly let their locks loose on school grounds.

"Our policy states that the hair (on male students) cannot extend beyond the collar in the back," said Kevin Stanford, superintendent of the Kerens Independent School District.

"What we were doing is allowing the students to bind their hair, but there was very inconsistent compliance."



What a HOOT!... Notice, it’s Texas, home of our current president… Texas gives us Bush and hair problems for men… I’m a bald, Army lifer, and could care less about how high school kids or anybody else wear their hair. I spent 13 years teaching high school history and the hair styles and lengths of a kids hair never got in the way in my classroom or on any of the teams I coached.

My eldest son, just graduated from high school, had middle of the back length hair, wore a really scraggly/scruffy beard that his mom and I hated, but so what. He’s a good kid, smart and I know for a fact it was worn because he wanted to be different. SO WHAT! Our son is a band geek, and this little Texas school system would be doing cheetah flips I suspect if they knew what his marching band mates called him… ”Jesus”, long dark hair, beard, wore sandals all the time…During ball games the kids would shout for the “Jesus Song” It was not a religious hymn, but a fight song that my son had a trombone solo in… This long haired hippie, that is my son, is now in college, attending a Music/Performing Arts school where he wants to emerge as a professional trombonist at the symphonic level. He did finely get his hair cut after high school graduation, to a more normal length which made his family happy. It’s a phase, nothing more.

Fortunately this problem is in Texas and not in my state. There are so many bigger issues to be concerned with than the length of hair on a young man. Oh well, glad it’s in Texas…

[seabeyond]

1. no rules in panhandle of texas. boys wear hair however....n/t

[BanzaiBonnie]

2. What year is this?

Haven't people learned yet that hair length does not affect academic outcomes?

[LibDemAlways]

3. Are they stuck in a time warp? Who cares how long a kid's

hair is? What diference does it make? Can't the administrators at that school find something more productive to do?

[DS1]

4. the obvious answer if for all the males to grow 3 foot tall mohawks

spiky ones.