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Anonymous:
Well if your reading the papers today, Texas will be fighting the oldest war known to man religion.
What kind do they want in their state and particularly in (my thread) schools.
Here we are again w/ the cusades, do we still have the vestiges of puritanicals moral codes around.
Yep, we do that what this thread is about and it is beginning to be about crusades too.
 Christain crusades......or atheist crusades......possibly agnostic....which I believe the definition
is "w/o knowledge", (very apropos). Texas definitly needs to have the spirit of "a~ga~pe to enter the state,
(choose your definition for "state").
 May the road rise to meet to you, my fiends........ :shamrock:

Anonymous:
Taylor Pugh - Boy Suspended For Long Hair
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCVbuNg1s2M

A Blog for Busy Moms – MOMania
Should hair length be regulated by school dress codes?
7:00 am January 13, 2010, by Theresa Walsh Giarrusso


Four-year-old Taylor Pugh says he's growing his hair out to give to cancer patients. His school says it's not OK and suspended him. (AP)

A 4-year-old boy has been suspended from his pre-K class in Texas since late November because the school says his hair is too long and violates its dress code.

Taylor Pugh has been separated from his class and sent to the library to study with a teacher’s aide since Nov. 24.  Here’s background on the story.

The school board did offer a compromise on Monday where the boy could braid his hair and pin it up. But the parents rejected it because the mother says her son likes his long and the braiding would make his scalp bleed according to the Associated Press.

From The New York Times:

“The boy’s parents, Delton Pugh and Elizabeth Taylor, have argued that it is unfair to punish Taylor for his longish locks; it suggests, they say, that the district cares more about appearances than education.”

“ ‘I don’t think it’s right to hold a child down and force him to do something,’ Mr. Pugh, a tattoo artist, told The Associated Press. ‘It’s not hurting him or affecting his education.’ ”

“ ‘It’s a trade-off,’ said one board member, Gary Bingham, an insurance agent, in an interview. ‘Do the parents value his education more than they value a 4-year-old’s decision to make his own grooming choices?’ ”

The little guy says he misses his friends.

The AP story explains more on the dress code:

“According to the district dress code, boys’ hair must be kept out of the eyes and cannot extend below the bottom of earlobes or over the collar of a dress shirt. Fads in hairstyles ‘designed to attract attention to the individual or to disrupt the orderly conduct of the classroom or campus is not permitted,’ the policy states.”


I personally think the little guy is lot cuter with his hair down. (AP)

“The district is known for standing tough on its dress code. Last year, a seventh-grader was sent home for wearing black skinny pants. His parents chose to home-school him.”

“On its Web site, the district says its code is in place because ’students who dress and groom themselves neatly, and in an acceptable and appropriate manner, are more likely to become constructive members of the society in which we live.’ ”

“Taylor said her fight is not over. She and her husband are considering taking the district to court or appealing to the State Board of Education.”

” ‘I know that there are a whole set of steps we can take,’ she said.”

OK parents and teachers what do you think: Should a school dress code control the appearance of a child’s hair? How do Georgia public schools with dress codes handle hair?

What should the standards for hair length and appearance be based on? Should boy standards differ from girl standards?

Should the parents agree to the braids? Should they pull their child from the school? Should they fight on? What would you do?

What do you think of the school’s Web site statements?

Anonymous:
Thank you,
You are much more computer savey then I am, but I'm getting there. Byte by Byte...... :shamrock:

justonemore:
Re: A 4 year old boy as a a pawn in a media circus. So, let me see if I get this straight. A 4 year old boy has decided, on his own, to grow and give his hair to "cancer victims" How unutterably noble of him, at just 4 years old.  I sincerely hope that ( but do not believe that) the parents aren't punking their own child, for the sake of their own ideaology. If this sort of parental behaviour is allowed to continue, what will you say to that kid when he's forty, unable to keep a job, or pursue career because he's so "inner-directed" and "follows a higher truth" that he's unable to take out the trash or feed himself? Will you say " Dude. Thanks for your contribution" ?  In order to be educated, first one must learn the rules, only then may one learn when, how, and, very importantly, WHY to break those rules. I consider this one to be child abuse. If you don't teach your children self-control and self- discipline, then you don't love your children. There's a reason it's called "Fire-Discipline"  There is a medical adage which proves acros the board, (test it and see for yourself) and that adage is: When you see hoofprints, look for horses. Ponder that. It means, in a nutshell, Look For The Obvious!  
J.O.M.
 ::unhappy::  Dang it! Thet Thur Lil' Guy's Evar whar!

Anonymous:
The child's parents will have a very strong case if the school does not apply the same standard to all students.  I would argue, provided the school is not applying the standard equally, the school is refusing Taylor's right to an education, including gender discrimination.  The parents have two options.  They can cut Taylor's hair or apply this hairstyle [ http://blogs.ajc.com/momania/files/2010 ... ght-up.jpg ].

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