Student Suspended from School for Haircut
by mannyAn eighth-grader in Ohio was suspended from his school for shaving a “B” onto the back of his head.
The student wanted to honor the Bengals football team, but apparently school officials thought it was too distracting. They claimed he violated the school’s code of conduct which prohibits “unnaturally colored hair, extreme/distracting makeup, haircuts and hairstyles.”
Really? No hair dye or cool haircuts? How did we ever survive the 80’s? Or the 60’s and 70’s, for that matter. Sigh.
I think the school should be more concerned about grades, drug use, gang violence, etc., and focus less on forcing conformity and destroying individuality. But that’s just me.
Reader’s parents, Tina Wanamaker and James Reader, said they were aware of the rule, but didn’t think Dustin’s cut was out of line.
“This is a way for him to express pride in the Bengals’ putting up a winning season,” said his father. “It’s not racist, not drug-related, not gang-related or anything like that. It’s about football.”
The barber, too, is taken aback.
“I’ve put multiple designs in kids’ heads that go to different Hamilton city schools and never has anyone come back to me and said they needed it cut out because they were being harassed in school,” Campbell said.
[via JournalNews & Yahoo]
November 17th, 2009 at 5:58 am
“I think the school should be more concerned about grades, drug use, gang violence, etc., and focus less on forcing conformity and destroying individuality. But that’s just me.”
Hah, that’s what all schools are like. I couldn’t even make it more than three years in highschool. I got detention because I used purple shoe laces even though it doesn’t say anywhere that they had to be black. What a prick and I said that to the vice principals face.
And I never really did anything worse than that, they just decided to pick on me because I was the artistic type that could never survive there.
They were crushing my individuality!
*Rant over*
November 18th, 2009 at 11:59 am
Aw, Courtney, that’s terrible. Purple shoe laces are bad? A shoe lace policy? I’ve never heard of such a thing.