Why do schools care what length someone's hair is anyway? Are they just power mad control freaks?
this post was submitted on 06 Dec 2023
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It's Texas, so my money is on a few good ol' boys who 1.) don't appreciate the kid's skin color, 2.) don't love that he's nationally embarrassed them for the fools they are, and 3.) are dense enough to believe they can still "win" this thing.
Yes. Schools exist to make your kids into little workers for their kids.
Because everyone should look like everyone else. Like clones. After all working in the factories needs co-ordination.
Its generally conservative viewpoints of fitting people into "the norm". Conservatism/traditionalism doesnt stop in the U.S, japan has schools for example that require students dye their hair black and conform to a very atrict uniform. Although that requirement was dropped very recently in tokyo(like 2021), it likely still exist in some regions.
Are they just power mad control freaks?
Yes. Schools have cultures just like anywhere else. Once the administration has a sufficient number of power-hungry losers, this is the end result.
They can never do anything wrong. It is always someone else's fault for everything. And all of them reinforce this mentality in each other.
It's disgusting.
I had dyed blue hair in highschool, I think this must be an American thing
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Is the admin white? Well there ya go.
Good question. I think we all know the answer to why they're making an example out of this kid.
I am appalled that people continue to not make headline (heh) puns about hairstyle issues at Barber Hill High School.
This is the only thing that matters. Most of the comments are just snippy teens saying “you can’t tell me what to do”
snippy
I see what you did there.
Can you cut it out, pleez ;)
Sounds like some racism was involved.
Hair below eyebrows and ear lobes? What year is this, 1962?
It is even worse than that. He wears his hair in a way that the it does not go below his eyebrows and ear lobes. But the school is mad that it could . It makes my blood boil.
It's absolutely terrible, they're setting him back while he stands up for his rights.
That hair is awesome too. Fuck them.
I hope he wins a lot of money from the delays he's received and punitive damages beyond that.
Yeah. They're preventing him from getting his education for some racist bullshit.
Everyone who has a hand in this pie needs to be fired and future wages garnished to repay him for what he's lost.
We can even do the math to find out how much it costs to educate 1 student for 1 day and then multiply that by how many days he's been suspended.
It never ceased to amaze me how US schools are being run like concentration camps. How very land of the free.
I don't think you understand how concentration camps worked if you use that sentence.
Pestering a kid about his hair style is literally the same as starving him in a prison camp
I think people missed the sarcasm of this post, lol
I guess you actually have to spell out the “SARCASM” disclaimer or everything is to be assumed 100% sincere
/s usually is good enough
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How can anyone blatantly break a law and not get charged? The state has a law prohibiting what these school admins are doing so why aren’t the police called and charges filled against them? I’m guess the police are fine with whatever racist authoritarian bullshit the school does.
How can anyone blatantly break a law and not get charged?
The letter of the law means nothing if the people in charge of enforcement don't agree with it.
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