It's also a way of providing discipline, CZ - something all too lacking today - both in children AND adults. There's nothing wrong with having rules - without them, chaos reigns....
i went through that and so did most of my friends we were always the skater punks with no life goals and now im almost positive most of us make more then the teachers lol
hair has nothing to do with being a productive member of society its a type of profiling
A public school shouldn't be culturally engineering the students. Period. It's their job to educate them, not to enforce their view of a good haircut.
What if the school said that the kids could wear any shirt they want, and then suspended a child because he wore a nice polo shirt with a Smith and Wesson logo on it, because guns are dangerous and S&W makes guns. Would y'all feel different?
Waiting for the profanity laced response to whatever anyone says ...
....and folks wonder why the schools are in such disarray. Look - your kid goes to the school *I* pay taxes for. You want them to "do their own thing" then fine - YOU pay for it. If they're going to a school *I* am going to help fund, then they ARE going to obey rules, whether you "approve" of them or not. SOMEONE has to run the madhouse BESIDES the inmates.
What if the school said that the kids could wear any shirt they want, and then suspended a child because he wore a nice polo shirt with a anti-Christian logo on it, because anti-Christian sentiments offend folks. Would y'all feel different?
I can come up with all the scenarios you want - or we can recognize that schools are places to LEARN, not for kids to "express themselves".
Well, long hair offended me while I was in school - so by your standards, that would make it verbotten, right? The media pays attention to the issue because the parents complain when the plainly-stated rules are broken and action is taken.
When it comes right down to it, cursing has nothing to do with learning - so should there be no rules about it, either?
Rules are rules - we may not like all of 'em, or understand 'em - but the bottom line is that we're all constrained by rules - whether by employers, spouses, or society. The earlier kids learn that rules are in place to help maintain societal norms, the better off we'll ALL be. As I said earlier, the option is chaos....
not at all if i got my job based on the stuff i learned in school not on my skating, infact i havent even really skated since highschool. i still have the longer than normal hair and it has yet to cost me a job.Would you have been open to attending and X Game Charter School instead of the high school you went to?
So, what's the magic number at which others being offended will make it "wrong"? 10% 20%? Why not simply have rules applied that are simple and easy to understand?
Why is a rule on haircut inappropriate? Because you don't like it, or don't see a need for it? Just who does it hurt to have a rule that is evenly applied?
not at all if i got my job based on the stuff i learned in school not on my skating, infact i havent even really skated since highschool.
When I went to school, they had just started magnet schools. I think there was medical, le, aero, theater (hspva?), and a few more. Of courser there had always been religious, college prep, military, etc. schools.
Whatever keeps kids interested.
btw - What is a magnet school? Do they teach you how to make magnets? Why do they call it that?
I don't know why they (used to?) called them magnet schools.
What do you mean? Modern public schools were designed for cultural engineering.A public school shouldn't be culturally engineering the students. Period. It's their job to educate them, not to enforce their view of a good haircut.
What if the school said that the kids could wear any shirt they want, and then suspended a child because he wore a nice polo shirt with a Smith and Wesson logo on it, because guns are dangerous and S&W makes guns. Would y'all feel different?