now this is just bulls**t

Leah · December 17, 2009, 07:15:59 PM

http://news.yahoo.com/video/us-15749625/texas-parents-battle-school-over-son-s-long-locks-17178226

Mr. DS · December 17, 2009, 07:48:39 PM

Hair discrimination...really? What century are we living in again?

InformationGeek · December 17, 2009, 09:21:53 PM

"Hair distracting?!"

The only hair that is distracting is a mowhawk! The teens at my Christian high school can have long hair like that and we have a strict dress/hair code as well! They have can't have long facial hair, but that's another story.

I think it is stupid to suspend a kid for that long of hair.

Cthulhu · December 19, 2009, 04:52:12 PM

This really is bulls**t.
Do they really need to f**king force children to have short hair?
What the f**k is this, some kind of Orwellian dictatorship?
...allright, maybe I overreacted, but still...f**king stupid.

Leah · December 19, 2009, 07:05:06 PM

f**k is the key term here (a***oleS)

Criswell · December 20, 2009, 02:24:14 PM

How is that distracting? That is perfectly normal hair and there is nothing distracting about it!

darthchicken · December 20, 2009, 02:29:25 PM

My friend used to distract me in class by hitting me with his ponytail.. but yeah, this is a really stupid rule..

akiratubo · December 20, 2009, 06:34:00 PM

His hair isn't even that long, what the hell?

meQal · December 22, 2009, 11:46:04 AM

Someone needs to tell that school system's board of ed. to get the sticks out of their collective a$$es. What they are doing is just stupid. The kid's hair is not a distraction and antiquated rules which date back 40+ years need to be dropped or revised to get with the times.

AndyC · December 28, 2009, 11:41:55 PM

I knew kids with hair that long when I was in elementary school in the 70s, and nobody thought anything of it. It's not so much long as it is messy, which is a pretty common look on little boys.

Although, looking at the kid and his family, I'm wondering if there isn't more to this than just the length of his hair. The media's focusing on that, because it's so ridiculous and is bound to stir up outrage, as it has here. But I have to wonder if it's the entire issue.