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Six-Year-Old Boy Grows Hair Long for Charity, Public School Suspends Him

Six Year Old Boy Suspended for Growing Hair Long for Charity

A 6-year-old boy in San Antonio has been placed into in-school suspension to start the year. Why you ask? Vandalism, fighting, maybe bad language?

The first-grader has gotten into trouble for violating the Blanco Independent School District dress code because of his long hair and earring. Long hair that he planned to donate to children suffering from cancer.

KENS5 News reports that Gareth Shand was planning to grow his hair long to donate it to Locks of Love, a non-profit organization that provides hairpieces to financially disadvantaged children in the United States and Canada under age 21 suffering from long-term medical hair loss from any diagnosis.

The district’s parent-student handbook says boys cannot wear earrings. It also requires they have their hair neat, clean and well-groomed.

Gareth’s mother Kandi Shand said she plans to challenge the school on the suspension, on the grounds that her son has the right to express himself freely.

Six Year Old Boy Suspended for Growing Hair Long for Charity

In addition to having to deal with the district, Gareth says since moving to the area from South Carolina he has been picked on by other kids for his earring.

The San Antonio Blanco School District is not commenting on the issue.

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  • twofoot_trucker
    Posted on August 28, 2011 at 6:42pm

    Leaving aside the nonsense of the ear ring, the hair is legit. I‘m guessing those saying a six year old can’t have come up with this on their own have never seen a six year old deal with the confusion and pain of having somebody in their lives lose their hair to chemo. I watched my nephew and niece both decide to donate hair to Locks of Love at around the same age because of what they had been exposed to when dealing with cancer stricken family. The nephew is the same one that I gave ‘high and tights’ to every time he needed a hair cut. He grew his hair long explicitly to have it cut short and donate. His decision and no one pushed him into it. Because those of you who don’t give a kid credit are so cynical as to see an ulterior motive behind every action, doesn‘t mean it wasn’t the kids idea.

    Also, where does it deal with length of hair in the student handbook? From what I see, it has to be “neat, clean, and well-groomed”. According to Merriam-Webster, “neat” and “clean” are essentially the same thing. “Free from dirt and disorder”. And “well-groomed”? “Made neat, tidy, and attractive down to the smallest details”. Again, almost the same in the beginning to the definition, made neat = made clean. The rest is subjective.

    So as long as his hair is clean and brushed, the kid falls within the definition of the rules since there is NOTHING that deals with length in the handbook. At least not based on the information given here.

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    • Marci
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 6:59pm

      Twofoot—get over yourself. I agree with what you are saying, but save your lectures. It‘s getting old having people lecture others because they don’t express things the way you think they should.

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    • casethatmail
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 7:05pm

      I’m with you “two-foot-trucker…”, lose the earring…..but as for the hair, (for a cause like THIS ONE)….Tell that school board to “shove it”!!! And, shame on THEM too!!! PS: WHERE THE HELL IS CNN, ABC, NBC….on this one????

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    • waggie
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 7:23pm

      It also requires they have their hair “neat, clean and well-groomed”. So…what’s the problem?

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    • twofoot_trucker
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 7:27pm

      Marci, I said what I said in response to ignorance on the part of some, and downright stupidity on the part of others. If you think that means I am giving a “lecture”, oh well.

      But I will certainly be looking forward to your future responses to every other post on here-“lecturing” others about rules, and “gutless males”, and who should or should not be going to public school-telling them they should all get over themselves.

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    • Ruler4You
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 8:11pm

      If he just would have grown it for the U.N. agenda 21.

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    • brntout
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 8:46pm

      @ TwoFoot.Don’t ever use the clutch foot to downshift.Your personal opinion matters.You can clutch on the dufus’s response.

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    • brntout
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 8:53pm

      P.S. Marcie needs to be jake-braked.

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    • valkor1958
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 9:06pm

      As a thirty year veteran I stand behind this young man and his parents for attempting to do a good deed. Personally I don’t think he is old enough to make a decision on having a body part (ear lobe) pierced but as long as his hair is clean and well kept it should be up to his parents to decide. If I‘d had my druthers at that age I wouldn’t have had a “flat top” but that was my parents decision as it well should be. The “NANNY STATE” really needs to be reigned in…..

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    • the hawk
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 9:06pm

      Rules, rules And more Rules ,LAWS , laws and More NEW Laws
      Dont sound much like Freedom………..Funkin Police State That USED tO be called America !
      Getting time for me and mine to jump ship ! America’s Going To pot and Sex !

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    • the hawk
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 9:10pm

      I would take my kid outta that school so fast ,they’ed never have known he was ever there !
      I thought there was still freedom in Texas ? guess I’ll stop lockin for listings there !

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    • rpp
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 12:19am

      I agree with the suspension. The idea that he is helping cancer patients isa canard – a lie.l These are lazy and sick parents.

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    • Talmid of Yeshua
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 12:21am

      Hey Marci, STFU you noob troll. I agree with Twofoot Trucker.

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    • GETLIFE
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 6:35am

      Reminds me of an earlier story on raising gender-free children. I may be wrong, but my guess is that the school authorities are more bothered by the earring and the hair together, than the earring OR the hair.

      Many young children feel very strongly about what should be done with their hair, yet I don’t know many kids under 6 who would make an appointment for someone to put a hole in his/her ear, then go out and buy an earring and put it in the hole. Just who is “expressing himself” here, the child or the parent?

      [Contrairy to popular belief, school does not imitate society. It's more a kind of necessarily dictatorial system where everybody is told what to do and when to do it. Schools might be much more interesting places for kids if we would stop putting the pressure on them to publicly solve all of societies problems.]

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    • TheValley
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 8:16am

      This is a BS stunt by the mother, period.

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    • DTOM_Jericho (Creator vindicator)
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 9:07am

      The real problem is that there should not be public schools.

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    • JRook
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 9:27am

      This has nothing to do with his hair. The hair reference is the attempt by the author here to make the story edgy as the child’s hair is not even remotely long. The earring is probably more of an issue relative to the mom, either she influenced him or indulged him. Neither of which is a good policy with a 6 year old.

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    • Wayne
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 10:13am

      We have come to a time when people will not obey the law. Partents are telling their children they can do has they please that laws don’t matter. I wonder if these people are legal in the states? Thank God for a school that requires children to have hair combed and look nice.

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    • Bluefish49
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 11:03am

      It looks more like his mother is an instigator and using her son as the bait. I live in SC and schools will not let a six year old boy come to school with an earring…its the rule as I’m sure it would be in most states. I have had friends like this. It doesn‘t mater what the rules are they don’t apply to their special child. I bet this kid has never had a spanken or been told no.

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    • mudvilles9
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 11:32am

      I bet if the mom said her son was gay and wanted to grow his hair for that reason the school would be fine with it.

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    • Politically_Uncorrect_Mom
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 12:57pm

      As the mother of a daughter with Alopecia Universalis…meaning she has no hair over her whole body…the necessity of a good wig is of the utmost importance. It is the most selfless, kind and caring things another human being can do for another, to give of themselves. And we now punish charity. A good wig for a child can run as much as $4,000. Factor in that it is not covered by most health insurance plans and your childs head grows each year requiring a new wig rather frequently. Locks of Love and other charities like them are there for those families who cannot otherwise afford a prosthetic…and make no mistake, that is exactly what it is, a prosthetic. Put aside teasing, taunting and bullying of the child with no hair, our hair serves a protective purpose for the skin, eyes, ears and nose. Those of us who have our own hair can take it for granted. But ask my 10 year old daughter who has a condition she can’t control or the young mother who has battled through chemo therapy and has lost one of the defining things of being a woman what they think about a child willing to grow out their hair to donate so that another human being can being to feel normal again and I bet you they will say that child is a hero. Shame on the school for being so short sighted. I hope this boy’s sense of giving to others is not snuffed out by pin headed adults!

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    • Jaycen
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 1:32pm

      Courts have upheld hair issues for years. The kid will win. I‘m sure he’ll be fine with the ear ring, too.

      On the flip side, if the kid chooses to be different than the rest of the group, he needs to suck it up and prepare for some ridicule. Otherwise, conform. That’s it.

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    • weconvene
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 2:23pm

      So now we are to go along with the politically so called correct and buy into the obsequious throngs of idiots that think a six year old should be given the power of decision over all aspects of his life? What ever happened to common sense? A six year old should for the sake of his education and training and longterm welfare, not be allowed to make all the decisions in regard to himself until he has grown in his education line upon line, responsibility upon responsibility, to the point where he is able to abide the responsibilities of a principled society! Sheesh! scary!

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  • suran
    Posted on August 28, 2011 at 6:31pm

    So cut your hair and take out the earring and go to school, or do what you want, not follow school rules and stay home!

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    • rangerp
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 6:34pm

      I say good for the school. A dress code is a good thing. if we have little boys start dressing and looking like young men, and not heathen, they might start to act as such (with discipline and a whole lot of other factors). Same goes for the ear ring. My grandfather said two kinds of men wear earrings, pirates and queers.

      I would bet a dollar to a donught, his liberal mom came of with the whole scheme. She can not stand that the school has standards, thus the bleeding heart story about donating hair. If they want to donate hair, let him grow it in the summer, and then be ready for the school year. It seems obvious that education is not her goal, but expression. If he wants to express himself, let him study, and express an A+ on his next exam.

      take a look at the mess our schools are in. Look back to when we ranked in the top of the world. You will notice that when we did well, students had a much stricter dress code, we did not have the federal government running the schools, they were controled by the local and state gov. We had strict discipline, the teacher/principle could spank, and when they did, the parents did not call the ACLU. We did not teach evolution then, and kids could pray in school.
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    • crackerone
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 6:44pm

      Probably growing his hair for the anticipated oilspill from the new pipeline.

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    • quicker
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 6:58pm

      All i can say is if they don`t like the school dress code go to a differant school.

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    • theprofessor1031
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 8:29pm

      A couple of things here. First off, there’s nothing wrong with a boy wanting long hair. I used to have long hair, but had to cut it when I started losing it all! My daughter has a friend who has long hair. He happens to like rock music. There’s nothing wrong with it. I never had an earring, but honestly, I don’t even see anything wrong with that. If these liberal pukes in the schools demand tolerance and equality for gay kids, why not have the same standards for a straight kid that wants to have long hair? The hypocrisy is sickening. And as for you fellow conservatives on here that are trashing this kid, and supporting the school, the hypocrisy statement also applies to you.

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    • holy ghostbuster
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 8:52pm

      @RANGERP- “heathen?” So long hair makes one a heathen. I‘m sure Jesus’s long hair was not neat or clean by today’s standards. You sound like a tight-ass fool. Maybe a good stiff drink would do you some good. Lighten up Francis.

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    • selloursouls
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 9:00pm

      @RangerP, Absolutely right. Thank you.

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    • rangerp
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 9:14pm

      @holy ghostbuster

      I think you have looked at to many european artist pics of Jesus with long blond hair. He was Jewish, and where in the Bible are we told that he had long hippie hair? He would most likely had curly black hair.

      You come across as a lib, name calling, no facts or ability to refute what I say, thus the snide comments. No thanks on the drink, I need what few brain cells I have, and I generally enjoy life without having to kill any.

      Put your brain cells to work, and show me where I am wrong. Enlighten me, and show me that when we got rid of prayer, and creation, added in long hair, no dress code, evolution….. that we got better. You can not, because you know that since the 70s, our public schools have continued down hill. Our school shootings have gone up, academics went down./.

      Your name calling and snide remarks do not impress, show me that you can debate, and then you might impress me.

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    • The_Hut_In_Co
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 9:38pm

      I’m on your side on this one rangerp. It doesn’t matter whether Jesus had long or curly hair. What matters is that He shed His Blood for all! HUA! Jesus paid it all!

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    • Justathinkin
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 9:48pm

      @Rangerrp

      All men at the time of Jesus had long hair if they weren’t Roman. Short hair was an “invention” of the Roman Army and last time I checked, Jesus was a Jew and not a Roman.

      On the topic of long hair, you seem the think that only short haired people have disciplined lives and mindsets; so what do you think of George Washington, Ben Franklin and Thomas Jefferson, or John the Baptist? All of these men were great leaders of men and all were disciplined and successful (in their own fields) and all had long hair, heck, some of them even drank! I agree that people do need to be responsible and accountable, however, I don‘t agree that we all would flourish under the type structure you’re advocating. We are all as unique as the snowflakes God makes, what makes you so sure that you have the very best answers for someone else’s child?

      The earring is something they may need to remove, but the hair issue is silly. I cannot fathom discouraging my kids from doing something like this. And to those who say he cannot comprehend donating hair at 6, my 4 year old knows how to work for change to feed starving kids in Peru (through our church) and is proud of her work.

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    • rangerp
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 11:02pm

      @Justathinkin

      Yea, and Samson had long hair. The topic is not about the length of ones hair. Early Americans wore wigs also. It was the norm at that time.

      Point is about following the rules of the school. During the 60s hippie movement, the rebelious crowd adopted long hair. In this day and age, most professional decent folks that I know, have short normal hair. The dope smoking gangster thug crowd go with the long nappy braids and such. To each his own, but if you look the part, do not get miffed if folks treat you as such. If you want people to look at you like a law abiding professional, try to look like one. thus the reason our military, police, firefighters…have standards.

      Go down to your police station, and get a list of wanted pictures for your local thugs. Check and see how many have long hair, nappy braids, ear rings….

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    • KNaggieland
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 11:57pm

      @RANGERRP

      You have an interesting logic going for ya there. Jeffrey Dahmer, the Hillside Strangler (Ken Bianchi), John Wayne Gacy, Anthony Wiener they all had short hair and blended well with society. My how deviant they turned out to be.

      The kid is a kid. I can see loosing the earing, boys play rough and there is a potential for getting it lost or the kid getting hurt when it gets ripped out. As for the hair, it is not even that long yet. It will need to be an additional 12 inches or so for him to donate it. Here in Texas that kind of long hair does not grow over summer time and would be unbearably hot.

      Now I could go into one of the best cyber investigators the DoD has is a 20 something long haired Asian skater punk, but it all seems pointless You can judge a book by the cover and perhaps someday you will be that guy who is shocked that his neighbor is a cannibal that has been BBQing his victims and serving them to his guests. Or you can learn the art of interactive conversation and learn to know the real people. no one is perfect, there is no uniform look for normal or good.

      I am not saying the mother is right or justified but it is clear that neither is the school. I just wonder how this school deals with autistic kids that freak out when you brush their hair, how do they deal with girls who choose to grow their hair out and it get to that unruly weird stage? Good hygiene, clean clothes and attention to classroom subjects seems like all he needs to be a goo

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    • holy ghostbuster
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 6:31am

      @RANGERP – Sorry, I fergot you er in the ARMY, where they taught you to git up early and foller rules and stuff. I’m just a heathen. But I don’t have long hair so can I still be a heathen?

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    • rangerp
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 6:42am

      @holy ghostbuster

      Yes, I am in the Army, and yes it seems to fit my personality, but no, they did not teach me discipline and getting up early. My parents instilled that at a very early age, also went to a fundamental baptist school up until 5th grade, and the haircut standard was about similar to uncle Sams.

      Have a good day.

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    • rangerp
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 6:48am

      @KNaggieland

      Sir, I think you missed the whole point of the discussion. No where do I argue that short haired people in history are always good, and long haired people are always bad.

      This is a topic about discipline and school rules. Schools is a place of learning, not little happy world, where Johnny gets to come express himself every day. Learning to abide by rules up front helps set students up for sucess later in life. There is a reason we in America have the highest prison population in the world. We stopped teaching kids to follow rules. I did draw the conclusion that about the time we took prayer, creation out of school, started dropping dress codes, hair standards, is about the same time that we dropped academically, and also about the same time we started seeing school schootings, and other heathen behaviors in our schools.

      I have yet to see anyone, on any this post explain to me how or why we dropped so quickly academically, and started havnig the school violence (around 1963). I believe it is because we got rid of common discipline, prayer, creation, and replace with evolution (no ten commandments), if it feels good do it mentality, and kids running the school. Bussing the cross town heathen into the school, and dropping the academic standards to the lowest common denominator did not help either.

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    • Cat
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 7:29am

      @SURAN and some responders

      Gosh.
      Recalling the days in private school
      Uniforms neat and clean
      Hair cut short for boys, no loner than shoulder length for girls
      Girls on one side of the room, boys on the other
      Cracked knuckles
      The dunce cap
      Pats on the back as encouragement
      Rewards for accomplishment

      And we grew up to become doctors, pharmacists, architects, pilots, military officers, business owners, engineers and builders … Not one became a politician.

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    • JLGunner
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 9:45am

      I would never allow my kids to go to public schools. Its turned into nothing but a breading ground for pc. If they have a rule, fallow it or leave. Kids don’t have a right to “express” themselves at that age, they need to get an education and stop screwing around.

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    • REALID 239823749828-HIF
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 9:58am

      @RANGERP

      Ranger, I usually respect your posts, but on this one, you couldn’t be more wrong. I’m a strong conservative Christian male. I believe in a literal interpretation of the Bible, I believe that our government and taxes are out of control, gay marriage is wrong, and abortion is sick. I’m a successful software engineer and my software helps to keep soldiers on the front lines safe.

      I also have both ears pierced and I grow my hair in a never ending cycle. Every time it gets long enough, I cut it and donate it to, you guessed it, Locks of Love. How can you, on one hand, rail against the government for taking away personal freedoms, then on the other, judge this woman for letting her son grow his hair and have his ear pierced? That smacks of hypocrisy my friend. What’s the big deal with letting the kid get his ear pierced? Who has it actually hurt? It‘s not like it’s a tattoo, the kid can always let the hole grow up. When they’re your kids you can make sure they have buzz cuts and no holes in them. When they belong to someone else, that’s their decision.

      You also said something about growing it in the summer. You should check on the facts before spouting off. Locks of Love requires that the donated hair be 10 inches or longer. I donate mine about once every three years.

      This is just one more reason to home school your kids. They turn out far better that way. There is empirical evidence to prove it.

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    • REALID 239823749828-HIF
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 10:03am

      @RANGERP

      “Yes, I am in the Army, and yes it seems to fit my personality, but no, they did not teach me discipline and getting up early. My parents instilled that at a very early age, also went to a fundamental baptist school up until 5th grade, and the haircut standard was about similar to uncle Sams.”

      Furthermore, you hit the nail on the head with this one. It’s NOT the schools responsibility to teach discipline and following the rules. Sure, it can help, but ultimately, it’s a parents responsibility. And that is the answer to your earlier question as well. The reason why we as American’s have gone so far downhill so quickly is poor parenting. 37% of all births out of wedlock? Really? 72% for Blacks? When kids grow up in an unstable home, meaning without a mother and a father, or at least one REALLY strong parent, America is what you get.

      It’s a shame really.

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    • rangerp
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 10:48am

      @REALID 239823749828-HIF
      I appreciate your post, but think you missed the boat on this one.

      You are an adult, grow your hair as you please.

      School is a place for learning. Rules are needed, or you will not have an environment cundusive for learning. A dress code, hair standards… are not something new. I would argue that as we progress as a nation, we get more rules, and less freedom, but if you look to the past, you will see that we had more discipline. As a quick example do a comparison with TV. Watch a show like Andy Griffith, Leave it to Beaver. Watch the kids, and see how they dress, see how they treat adults. Now compare that to a modern day family show (they no longer exist). In more modern shows, kids have long hair, are smart mouth, non-disciplined.

      Freedom without responsibility moves you toward slavery. We had the hippie movement in the 60s. It was drugs, sex, and rock and roll (all tied to rebelion), this is when we started moving away from discipline in the schools. This is the same time, we start seeing school shootings, teen pregnancy went through the roof, teen suicide went through the room, STD through the roof. Yes, we let the student be more free and express in new ways, individual discipline took a nose dive. Now show me one statistic where we got better? Education went down (especially in math and science). Violence, drug use, drop out, prgegnancy, suicide… all went up. Our education system is now a mess?? If you think giving

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    • rangerp
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 11:05am

      @REALID 239823749828-HIF

      You also make the claim that home school is better. My two daughters did home school for a number of years, and now are in private school. I will tell you two reasons why home and private school produce a better product than public school. It is more structured, has more rules, more discipline. the top schools academically in my area, are all private. their dress and hair standards are much higher than the local public schools. Discipline is good. A lack of discipline, leads to a lack of success.

      Let me word it this way. If you run a business, who do your promote, and give special priveleges too (like a company car, company credit card, more freedom to make decisions)? Do you give it to the person who always goes against the standards, the person who has a hard time following company rules, the person who can not seem to adhere to standards?, or do you give it to the person who can stay within the rules, is more disciplined, and maintains the company standards?

      This new wave thinking, were every kid gets a trophy, johnny gets to self express when he wants, and the kids run the school, is not moving us ahead. We are on a down hill spiral for a reason.

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    • REALID 239823749828-HIF
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 2:24pm

      @RANGERP

      I couldn’t agree more, rules are needed, but they also need to be rules with a reason. I understand the rule about not having an earring, even though I disagree with it, but the rule about neat and clean hair is to keep kids from getting and spreading lice. Long hair can be perfectly neat and clean, and there’s no reason to give this kid grief over it.

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    • REALID 239823749828-HIF
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 2:38pm

      @RANGERP

      Look man, I completely agree with you on this whole feel good, everybody gets a star, there are no losers attitude. That’s how you create children with a sense of entitlement and no character.

      That being said, a “never question authority, never question the rules” attitude is just as bad. Again, rules have to be reasonable. If I run a company, and I decree that no purple shirts shall be worn on Tuesday, that’s just stupid. There’s no reason for it, and anyone who blindly follows that rule is a sheep. In my opinion, that’s just as bad as the happy feel good lefty attitude.

      Also bad are rules that interfere with personal freedom for no good reason, and rules that are interpreted after the fact to mean something that they didn’t originally.

      What it boils down to is, if this kid was causing disruption in class, or even coming to school with greasy hair and fingernails covered in grime, I would completely agree with your assessment. I’m just saying that following rules blindly is never a good thing, especially when those rules intentionally, or inadvertently, step on personal choice.

      As to your question, I might promote the person who gave me the best results, even if he had to step outside of the box to do it. Given, of course, that nothing illegal was done. I would take the opportunity to perhaps rethink my policies in that case. Honestly, I don’t know, your question is very situational.

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    • REALID 239823749828-HIF
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 2:50pm

      @RANGERP

      As a followup, you sound like a smart dude, and after rereading our entire conversation (which by the way I appreciate being a cordial debate, rather than devolving into name calling), I think perhaps we’re coming from the same place with just slightly different points of view. Personally, I believe in personal responsibility, and that the biggest responsibility you can have is raising a child properly. Private schools are definitely better due to generally smaller classes and more personal attention given to each student. Home schooling is best because the child gets ALL of the attention.

      However, I concede that you are probably closer to right in this debate than I am, but not because my ideals are wrong. Rather, my ideals are unrealistic. As a general rule, people suck and will never show the type of parenting required to render my ideals workable. As you pointed out, they used to, but those days are long gone. Today, people would rather leave their children to be raised by the television. Que sera sera. All I can do is my best. :)

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    • rangerp
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 4:37pm

      @REALID 239823749828-HIF

      I enjoyed the converstaion, I am sure we will meet again on the blaze
      Thanks,

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  • cassandra
    Posted on August 28, 2011 at 6:26pm

    a six year old with an earing give me a break, sorry but the parents just lost my support on this issue

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    • thetreyman
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 6:32pm

      parents routinely get their kids ears pierced, even younger than 6. at least they did when i was growing up.

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    • Chuck Stein
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 7:32pm

      Parents having young kids getting ears pierced has always troubled me — whether a boy or a girl. “Child abuse” would too strong a word, but it is wrong when it is just a cosmetic thing (and not a practical, or at least religious tradition, sort of thing).

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    • Seasoldier
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 7:38pm

      According to numerous state and federal court rulings, schools have a right and an obligation to establish and enforce rules designed to maintain good order and discipline. A reasonable dress code, including haircut and jewelry restrictions, comes under the heading of a school’s proper authority. A six year old boy can probably grow his hair long enough for his worthy charity purposes during the Summer break. In this case, the parents probably should have consulted with the school before putting their child in this situation. Now they should teach their child the lesson of obeying rules and dealing with the consequences of failing to do so. The school could probably adjust their punishment guidelines to match the age and intentions of this 6 year old boy, rather than using the thoroughly disgraced “zero tolerance” policy and “one size fits all” punishment plans.

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    • ddg7
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 7:58pm

      SEASOLDIER….Well done!

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    • RedTexan
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 8:20pm

      I agree, I read in another article the boy has had his ear pierced for 5 YEARS… which means the BOY WAS ONE YEAR OLD when the mom had his ear pierced… give me a break. The mom wants him to wear the earring and she wants his hair long… this isn’t first amendment stuff, this is “parental rights” stuff… and bull stuff at that. In my opinion, that is.

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    • selloursouls
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 9:02pm

      @Thetreyman, Yeah and they are called girls.

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    • Wilkins
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 3:32am

      This six year old has worn his earing for five years. In other words this was his mother’s decision, not something he ever asked for. Is this normal to pierce a one year old boy’s ear? Let him make that decision himself when he’s an annoying teenager. My single mom detector’s pinging.

      I’m with her on the hair thing, both for the cause and because from the report it doesn’t sound like it violates the rule.

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    • thetreyman
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 5:22am

      @selloursouls
      your point is what exactly

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  • Cherynn
    Posted on August 28, 2011 at 6:22pm

    Now isnt this just the perfect example of living in a FREE COUNTRY ???? NO ONE has the right to tell another how they should wear thier hair, unless you join the military. This is in my opinion a major violation of the first amendment and the right to self expression. Any more people in this country think they are NAZIS and have the right to tell others how to live thier lives. I hope this family gets a lawyer and sues the living sh*t out of this school district. I am so sick and tired of this kind of BS. Live your own lives and leave others alone !!!!!

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    • Want our country back
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 6:38pm

      I hope this family gets a lawyer and sues the living sh*t out of this school district.
      ———————————————————————————————————————
      Cherynn, just who do you think would end up paying the family if they won a law suit….. YOU DO, silly girl.

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    • quicker
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 7:02pm

      Many schools have a dress code.The parents should feel lucky that that code doesn`l require a uniform.If they don`t like the dress code change schools or homeschool.

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    • ddg7
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 7:03pm

      CHERYNN…I agree there are stupid rules out there. I think the NLRB rule that Boeing can’t build an assembly plant in North Carolina is stupid because it favors unions.

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    • ddg7
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 7:25pm

      CHERRYNN….I guess you believe that state senator from Puerto Rico and Anthony Weiner should have been allowed to express themselves by showing their genitals on the internet?

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    • ddg7
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 7:41pm

      CHERRRNN…Why did you substitute ‘*‘ for ’i’ in your, “living sh*t” response? Does this mean you think ‘The Blaze’ is run by Nazis and you’re afraid to violate the rules?

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    • Cherynn
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 8:20pm

      This is just more NANNY STATE busy bodies minding other peoples business. How does the length of ones hair impact learning ability???? If the schools spent more time teaching reading, math etc and less time telling children how they must conform to anothers set of standards maybe the schools wouldnt be the idiot factories that they are today. Lots of boys had long hair when I was in school (the 70′s) and wow, all of them could read and do math, understood history and graduated. What happened to free will? I thought this was America. Now if this truely was a socialist nation and the kid was wanting to join the HJ I can understand being told how long your hair MUST be. America is about FREEDOM. It is not the schools job to create a bunch of cookie cutter clones that look perfect but have empty minds. This country was founded on the principles of individual freedom and liberty. How do you instill in a child the right of individuality and yet demand they conform to someones else beliefs and not thier own. Instead its seems the goal is to create a bunch of mindless drones. I know more than one Eagle Scout that had shoulder length hair when they earned that honor. BTW, my second grade age grandson has hair alot longer than this kids and it is his own personal choice to have it.

      AS far as * instead of this i. I have been censored MANY times on The Blaze.

      LIke it or not, free will is the most important thing a human being can possess.

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    • RedTexan
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 8:28pm

      Texas = Nanny state now? Don’t think so. Do you, or have you ever worked at a school? Because I have, a high school. I had to deal with guys who pierced their ears for 17th and 18th birthdays– not little boys whose mommy had his ear pierced at the mature old age of ONE. This isn’t first amendment at all– schools are well within the law to require uniforms or dress codes as the school districts see fit. Tidy, or well kept hair cuts are normal for dress codes– this business of donating hair is total BS… I’ll bet on it. I doubt the mom has ever donated hair, my sister has and I know other people that have. One’s hair has to be about 8-9 inches in length prior to cutting to donate hair… think that 6 year old is going to want a mop like that on his head? Especially in the heat Texas is experiencing right now?

      I am all about rights, free speech, and constitutional fidelity– but don’t feed me this “first amendment” crap… this isn’t about what the boy wants, it is what his mom wants. I’ve dealt with these situations before, you come to recognize the signs.

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    • Cherynn
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 8:40pm

      DDG7, What does hair length and exposing oneself on the internet have to do with each other? Indecent exposure is crime. It offends people and the offended people claim to be victims of such action. How does the length of ones hair constitute a crime? How does it produce a victim? A victim is produced here when a group of people take control of your body and tell you how you will present yourself. For a group of people that claim to be of the Tea Party persuasion there seems to be alot of control freaks here. Limited nonintrusive government seems to be the goal of all of us here and yet it is perfectly fine to demand conformity so we all the same. Its either or, not both. Your either free or your a serf.

      Besides that, your arguement is comparing apples to oranges.

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    • Cherynn
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 8:55pm

      Texas = Nanny state now? ……………sounds that way to me. If the shoe fits, wear it.

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    • ddg7
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 9:46pm

      CHERYNN..The school didn‘t say the kid’s long hair was making him stupid so they are not inferring it is interferring with his ability to learn. What they are saying is the school has rules and if you want your kid to go to their school they must obey the rules. If the kid’s mom has a problem with that she should go to the school board and get the rules changed. You can choose which rules you want to obey and suffer the consequences for those that you break. It’s all about rules and the correct way to get the rules changed.

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    • Cherynn
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 10:49pm

      Tell me what purpose this rule serves? All it does is strip a boy of his individuality and makes him conform to someone elses stereotype of what a boy should look like. TOTAL BS and nothing but a beurocrats inturusion into someones elses life. No 2 people on earth are the same so why should this child be expected to become another cloan for the sake of education? The length of his hair harms no one. Sieg Hiel. Ein volk, ein welt, ein Riech. Sound familiar?????

      THIS IS A USELESS AND INTRUSIVE RULE THAT SERVES NO PURPOSE.

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    • GETLIFE
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 6:58am

      Schools have rules like hospitals have rules. Schools are not microcosms of our society. Think about when you were in school. You marched to all of the buzzers and bells just like everyone else. You went to the required courses at the required times–like it or not.

      Think of it this way–it is imperative for children to learn that school is NOT society. It is a manmade institution with rules–sometimes arbitrary, sometimes necessary. Some are better than others, and there are always other options.

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    • Want our country back
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 11:09am

      @CHERYNN

      A successful life is about being organized and disciplined. These things must be taught along with the math’s and sciences etc. If there were no dress codes, you’d have the kids all tripping over their pants, looking at their plumbers cracks, ….. It’s not a nanny state at all. There aren’t a lot of things that teachers can control in their classrooms but a dress code helps.

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    • Cherynn
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 6:10pm

      Discipline, organization and personal appearance are the responsability of the parents, not the teachers or a school administrator. Math, reading, science, history etc is the teachers responsability and for some reason they cant even handle that. I guess the falling GPA’s and the drop out rate is due to lack of proper grooming. It amazes me that our rural Indiana school district manages to be successful without such silly BS rules. When you demand that a child cut his hair it follows over into his off time and weekends, not just the time he spends in school. What gives anyone the right to exercise that kind of control over another individuals body?

      This reminds me of the lyrics to an old Rush song, “conform or be cast out.” My children and grandchildren do not live thier lives just to meet your standards of what is proper. This is not the America I grew up in. It reminds me more of old German society where every lives thier according to “die ordnung” I didnt know America was becomming such a society.

      My engineering degree is from Purdue University. My youngest childs master degree is from Indiana University and my oldest childs Phd is also from Purdue. My family has spent PLENTY of time in the school environment and we worry more about GPA’s than hair length.

      I am far from an expert on teaching but I dont buy into this garbage about hair length. This is just a useless intrusion into the private lives of a child for the bennefit of a group of control freaks

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  • angelcat
    Posted on August 28, 2011 at 6:11pm

    While the child is growing his hari for a worthy cause, if the rule is bent for him then it will have to continue to be bent over and over as people either find or make up causes for which their kids need to grow their hair. Schools don’t have the time, manpower, or money to have to check the legitimacy of each request once the door is opened for one child. My heart says they shouldn’t suspend him,. but my common sense tells me they have to do so.

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    • rangerp
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 6:24pm

      Good for the school. A dress code is a good thing. if we have little boys start dressing and looking like young men, and not heathen, they might start to act as such (with discipline and a whole lot of other factors). Same goes for the ear ring. My grandfather said two kinds of men wear earrings, pirates and queers.

      I would bet a dollar to a donught, his liberal mom came of with the whole scheme. She can not stand that the school has standards, thus the bleeding heart story about donating hair. If they want to donate hair, let him grow it in the summer, and then be ready for the school year. It seems obvious that education is not her goal, but expression. If he wants to express himself, let him study, and express an A+ on his next exam.

      take a look at the mess our schools are in. Look back to when we ranked in the top of the world. You will notice that when we did well, students had a much stricter dress code, we did not have the federal government running the schools, they were controled by the local and state gov. We had strict discipline, the teacher/principle could spank, and when they did, the parents did not call the ACLU. We did not teach evolution then, and kids could pray in school.

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    • qpwillie
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 6:28pm

      You‘re going on the premise that they have a right to make a rule about how a six year old’s parents choose to let him grow his hair in the first place.

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    • Berbel73
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 6:38pm

      Well rangerp your grandfather must be proud of you, you grew up to be a braindead bigot just like him!

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    • rangerp
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 6:52pm

      @Berbel73

      I will take that as a compliment. Gramps tought me well, and while a bit rough around the edges, instructed many good lessons. He grew up in the depression was a silver star and purple heart winner in WWII.

      While discipline may rub your fur the wrong way, it served me well (along with the short hair). 24 years of military service, never arrested, never drank a drop of alcohol, never did any drugs, no babies outside my marriage, still married only once and very much in love with her. Two very disciplined children (on has skipped three grades), pay my taxes, attend and tithe at a good church, support missionaries, two college degrees, commissioned army officer….. I would say discipline makes me free. An inability to follow the rules makes you a slave. By the Grace of God, I plan to continue down the road of being disciplined, to include my diet, workout, spending habbits…. I think we need more discipline as a nation, and we might just have less debt, people in prison, school murders…..

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    • rangerp
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 6:57pm

      @qpwillie

      So the parents get to ignore the school rules? Why do they not home school?

      Here is a fix. Get the federal government out of the schools. Hillary and the villege of idiots have never done our schools one bit of good.

      Put the local gov, the state gov, and the local parents back in charge. They make the dress code, they decide on the curriculum, focus the schools on education. This is how our schools were run prior to the 70s, and we ranked top in the world.

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    • 4truth2all
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 7:42pm

      Yo Rangerp:
      You make some very good common sense points.It is in fact quite simple… the school has rules, you follow them. In fact it would be a great opportunity for a mother to teach her son about not getting everything you want in life, fair or not. I admire the boy for his heart to help and you gave a simple solution to the problem.

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    • qpwillie
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 8:27pm

      rangerp,
      The federal government is the reason schools make rules like that. It’s that “village” making decisions that should be left to the parents.

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    • rangerp
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 9:05pm

      @qpwillie

      The federal gov did not set the hair cut standard for this school, the local school board did.

      I think you have your head in the sand. Look back a few decades, prior to Jimmy Carter putting the public schools in the hands of the federal governemnt.

      Google you up some pics of American public schools prior to the 70s, and see what the dress code standards were. Go even farther to say the 50s, and see the standards. The fed gov did not regulate the public schools, and standards (all standards) from academics, to hair, to dress were stricter. No boy back then, wore ear rings, no baggy pants with underward or butt crack showing, no dread locks, long nappy braids, or hippie hair. No gang attire, no rock and roll t-shirts, not tore up jeans…..

      You will also notice that we did not have school shootings back then, and we were one of the top countries in the world in math and science. Where are we now?

      Your argument is full of holes, try again.

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    • angelcat
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 11:11pm

      QPWillie, as a teacher of 30 years, i can tell you that such things as the length of a student’s hair can set the tone for a classroom and cause disruption, especially since some students are looking for any reason to cause a disruption. Because teachers have few discipline options these days, disruptions are not easily stopped, no matter how good a disciplinarian you are. Besides, students need to know there are rules in this world and consequences when you break them. The workplace has rules. It is an advantage for kids to learn that you can’t always do what you want to do when you want to do it. It is called self-discipline and responsibility.

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    • Charb
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 12:54am

      First, does anyone recall when teachers, whose career choice was called a “profession”, wore suits and looked professional? I’ve worked at schools and it looks like the adults dress as poorly as the students, yet can’t figure out the lack of respect of kids, nowadays.

      Second, @RangerP: Dollars and donuts aren’t so far apart in cost, nowadays.

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    • biffo
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 1:12am

      Standard socialist method of the destruction of the rule of law. A thousand small cuts here and there, with the use of a child as the preferred method. They started in the 60s and have ruined public education from birth to death. Follow the rules, or go somewhere else.

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    • GETLIFE
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 8:41am

      “While the child is growing his hari for a worthy cause….” (ANGELCAT)
      So I’m thinking–“hari” must be some hippie word which refers to hair you grow out to cut off and give away as some sort of offering… :D

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    • Dismayed Veteran
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 11:32am

      @RANGERP

      I couldn’t agree with you more. I am an “Army Brat”. I was raised to hospital corner my bed, fold my clothes neatly and hang shirts and pants in the same direction. All of this may sound stupid but my parents taught me to do a job correctly and pay attention to details. After dinner, we discussed what each of us had learned new that day. This gave me forum to air my thoughts freely and expanded my reasoning skills. These are rules and provided discipline in thinking.

      This helped me when I was a 2LT in the Army where clarity of thought and action, solid training with self-imposed discipline were required. We raised our kids with very similar rules. My middle son grew his hair long for Locks of Love when he was in high school. The school encouraged it as part of civics.

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  • SPOT_OF_TEA
    Posted on August 28, 2011 at 6:09pm

    It all sounds a little silly to fight about but I think the parents are being disingenuous.I mean a 6 year old boy knowing enough about cancer to be involved in this?I think the parents are trying to make a disturbance in the school…..I might have taken their side it it wasnt for the earring.Fighting to keep the earring in makes the fight to grow hair for cancer seem bogus.I hate it when people prey on people’s emotions to promote their unrelated personal agenda.

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    • MontanaRob
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 6:30pm

      I think you have the right take on this. The hair is one thing, the earring is another. Next his mother will send him to school in a dress and will be yelling at everyone else to curb their emissions, which apparently the soldiers in Afghanistan have to do now.

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    • GETLIFE
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 8:49am

      “I hate it when people prey on people’s emotions to promote their unrelated personal agenda.”

      I hate it when people use children out in front of their peers (school) to promote their unrelated personal agenda.

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  • Glenn in Virginia
    Posted on August 28, 2011 at 6:08pm

    You vill get mit zee program!

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  • momprayn
    Posted on August 28, 2011 at 6:04pm

    Not that it matters, but this school is not in San Antonio — it’s in a dinky little town about 20 miles north of where we live….in a town called Blanco. A lot of “hippies” live there (yes, there are a lot of them in Texas too) – especially when you get near Austin. Surprised to see it in the news like this! ha!
    This child is 6 yrs. old — come on — this is not what he has chosen to do on his own. His mother is obviously living her life – her desires — through her son. She’s the one that got him to wear the earring & talked him into growing his hair long, etc. Even though it sounds “good” since it’s for a charity – you can’t go down this road of excusing someone from the rules for whatever reason. It’ll never end. It’s more of the Progressives trying to push their beliefs on us. I wouldn’t dream of using my child like that. She’s a troublemaker. Feel sorry for both.

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  • Walkabout
    Posted on August 28, 2011 at 6:01pm

    Long hair is ungroomed hair?

    So an afro is out of the questions because the power trippers would consider it ungroomed?

    What about long curly hair? They don’t like curly hair.

    Men of many, many peoples of Eurasia wore their hair long, they were real men.

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    • chips1
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 10:53pm

      He looks like the kid that used to sing the Oscar Meyer song while he was fishing. Next thing you know, Rodney Allen Rippey will be banned. However, ditch the earring.

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  • kickagrandma
    Posted on August 28, 2011 at 6:00pm

    The mother has the right to home school her child. If she is not going to obey the rules of the school district, which apparently are good NORMAL rules for a school district, she needs not to send her child to that school for the sole purpose of disturbing the education of all the other students in the school. Period.

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    • MHP
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 6:23pm

      My nephew (my niece’s son) did just this. He got his hair short of 10″ and they sent to the organization.

      Many school districts accept this if it‘s for saving someone’s life and goes to charity.
      But liberals don’t.

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    • MHP
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 6:28pm

      BTW no earrings worn either. Parents won’t have that, neither will the grandparents.

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  • Libertarian B 4 Libertarians Were Cool
    Posted on August 28, 2011 at 5:59pm

    One of a long list of reasons why we home school!

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  • helveydc
    Posted on August 28, 2011 at 5:59pm

    He would be in trouble at my school also. Rules are rules!

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    • IntransigentMind
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 6:10pm

      “Rules are rules?” You’re kidding, right?
      “Back of the bus..” Rules are rules…
      “To the ovens with you!” Rules are rules…
      “I OWN you BOY!” Rules are rules…
      Just how many tyranniies are you willing to accept in the name of rules?

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    • BonnieBlueFlag
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 6:27pm

      @Intrans

      Your very examples are of rules UNEVENLY and SUBJECTIVELY enforced. Only *some* people had to get to the back of the bus. Only *some* people were murdered in gas chambers. The subjective classification of exemptions is precisely what lead to those attrocities. When EVERYONE has to follow the SAME rules, they are usually reasonable and fair.

      What if the kid wanted to donate the hair to a needy witches coven who needed it for their spells? Should he be exempt then? Can’t you see your own bias favoring Locks of Love (which would take YEARS by the way as they require a 6 inch ponytail cut from a registered salon…hmmm wonder how I know that.)

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    • rangerp
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 6:33pm

      @IntransigentMind

      Yes, rules are good. Why do you think we lead the world with people in prison? We stopped with the rules, stopped with creation (and th ten commandments), picked up evolution, and adopted “if it feels good do it”.

      Rules are good, and discipline is good for children. Perhaps if junior will learn rules now, he will not be breaking the big ones when he becomes an adult, and ends up in prison.

      Notice the libs/dems/progressives all push for this big happy socialist state where we do not have all the rules. Have you looked at nations that have socialism? They thought they were getting freedom, and instead, they put on the chains of slavery. People in Cuba are not free, people in China are not free, people in the old Soviet Union were not free.

      We are not ballanced in the U.S. We have the statue of liberty on one coast, thus we should have the statue of responsibility on the west coast. It is the parents responsibility to give some discipline to junior. Instead of discipline and obeying the rules, they push the other direction. What other rules should this parent be able to break. What if junior does not want to wear a shirt to school? what if he does not like being in class at 8 oclock, and prefers 9 oclock…. what if he wants to go out and play instead of doing spelling? Junior does not make the rules, the school does.

      One day he may want a job, There will be rules there. He may want to drive one day, more rules to follow….

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    • ddg7
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 6:51pm

      @ INTRANSIGENTMIND…Does this mean you believe in prayer in the schools for those that wish to pray?

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    • 4truth2all
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 7:46pm

      The ones that make a little sense… none of which you listed!

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    • IntransigentMind
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 8:46pm

      Bon,
      It’s not whether a rule is subjectively enforced, but whether that rule ought to exist at all. That’s the point here. Tell me, with some precision if you don’t mind, what his hair length has to do with anything? You can’t discipline kids with long hair? Long hair = anarchy????
      Look, I’m a crewcut guy myself, but that doesn’t make be believe ill of kids with long hair. If the school district is willing to refund any property tax his parents pay, I’d be fine with it, but as long as they are held to pay, they need to shut the heck up. Period.
      Sometimes, people need to wake up and realize some rules are simply bad rules. We have local municipalities running around enforcing food/beverage laws against children selling lemonade. A rule is a rule, right? It’s garbage. You may wish to cede your liberty, but I am not such a pushover.

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    • BonnieBlueFlag
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 9:10pm

      @Intrans

      Okay, so dress codes are bunk? Fine. How about a kid with a picture of a woman giving birth on his shirt- the upskirt version? It’s not porn, they show it in health class. How about shirts with curse words on them? Pictures of the Kent State tragedy? None of that is illegal per se, but it disruptive. You just like long hair. Fine, but if it were something that personally offended you, you would understand its illicit status regarding the dress code. You are arguing aesthetics, not ethics.

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    • IntransigentMind
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 10:19pm

      @Bon:
      Do you understand the difference between clothing and hair? One is an actual extension of one’s body. I cannot clip my hair for school and re-attach it when I return home. I can put on certain clothing for school, and ditch them in favor of something else when I return home. See the difference? What the so-called ‘dress code’ does is enforce a dress code not merely at school, but also away from school. Got it? That‘s call ’control freak policy.’

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    • BonnieBlueFlag
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 11:19pm

      @ Intrans

      Got it! 3 foot purple mohawk is A-ok! How about a swastika shaved into the back of his head? Sounds good!

      You like long hair- good for you. Many places consider it unprofessional and undisciplined and a possible distraction. When you are running the school board you can run it any old hippie way you please. Til then, leave it to the professionals who KNOW what fosters respect and what fosters back-talk.

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    • rangerp
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 6:38am

      @BonnieBlueFlag

      Very well stated. Where does one draw the line? I like the 3 foot purply mohawk statement.

      Some on here just do not get it. School is a place of learning, not freedom world, where every child gets to go express themselves.

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  • BonnieBlueFlag
    Posted on August 28, 2011 at 5:58pm

    I am going to smoke crack for charity. For every rock I smoke, my sponsors and I will donate $50 to needy orphans. If you arrest me, you hate orphans!

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    • thetreyman
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 6:08pm

      a bit counterproductive in the end as you would soon start embezzling from your charity fund to buy more crack.

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    • metalurgy
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 6:17pm

      @ BBF +1

      Brilliant point. I like the way you think.

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    • jb.kibs
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 11:06pm

      yeah, exactly. because that is apples and apples right?

      locks of love is a real thing… look it up.
      the crack for orphans charity i can’t seem to find in google…

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    • mauijonny
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 5:03am

      @ JB – “can’t find crack for orphans” Not YET. As I deal with a charity that helps cancer patients, my initial reaction to this was ‘how stupid!‘ As I also now recognize that I live in a society that seems to think that ’no rules are good rules’, and we watch puke science and puke gov’t and puke public ed and puke religion (please get my drift, here, as we approach 9/11) lead us into something we were never meant to be, I get the feeling that this is just some puke stunt rationalized.

      Aloha

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  • ddg7
    Posted on August 28, 2011 at 5:57pm

    What would mama do if the kid said he wanted to donate a kidney or an eye?

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    • thetreyman
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 6:04pm

      i think that comparing the donation of hair to kidneys and eyes is a bit of a stretch.

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    • chips1
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 11:18pm

      What would you think, if for instance, he was a legal immigrant from maybe, Kenya, and he had a bone in his nose? Does that automatically make him a canibal? I think not.

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  • Want our country back
    Posted on August 28, 2011 at 5:56pm

    Gareth’s mother Kandi Shand said she plans to challenge the school on the suspension, on the grounds that her son has the right to express himself freely.
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    Liberal mom, STOP making your cause his cause. He‘s getting bullied already and he’s only 6 with an earring…… let him learn to read and write first, he’ll get indoctrinated soon enough.

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  • pecosval
    Posted on August 28, 2011 at 5:55pm

    Mom, if you don’t like the rules you can homeschool him…..then he can grow his hair to his knees if you want.

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    • metalurgy
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 6:06pm

      ..and tell yer husband to pick up more ammo at walmart while he’s out. ;^)

      Truth be told, the school could make an exception for a limited time for charity purposes and a decent PR move, but it is the school rules and they must be obeyed if you sign your kid up to attend. You don’t get to change the rules because you only want to pick and choose the rules that you want to follow.

      Unless of course you‘re working for Obama’s Administration. We are all not Democrats, after all.

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    • DrJen
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 12:07am

      Exactly. Homeschool, find a private school, or move. Fighting with the school is a poor choice in my opinion. When the public school system told us that our child would be in violation of the rules (and suspended) if we took him out of school for services for Yom Kippur, we went with a private school and later went on to homeschooling.

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  • randy
    Posted on August 28, 2011 at 5:54pm

    What kind of parent sticks an earring into a 6 year boys ear?
    Idiots……..

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  • FantaGirl
    Posted on August 28, 2011 at 5:52pm

    I get how they don’t want him to wear the earring. That’s been in student handbooks for a LOOOOOOONNNNNGGG time. But the hair for charity? Come on. They should let him do something like that. It‘s not like he’s going to keep it. He’s giving it away. Kids at my school participated in a day of silence if they disagreed with abortion, but my school didn’t write them all up for refusing to speak in class.

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    • metalurgy
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 5:59pm

      Yep, golden oportunity for some school PR flushed down the toilet.

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    • toto
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 6:01pm

      The problem is that the kid coming up with growing long hair on his own is unlikely. Mommy is the provocateur, probably with the earring too. Having had two kids, now adults, they didn’t do anything without my encouragement and blessing at that age. Mom, follow the school rules or send your kid to a hippy school where it won‘t matter and don’t tear down the standards for everyone else.

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    • BonnieBlueFlag
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 6:08pm

      @Toto

      Bless you and your clarity of thought!

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  • ddg7
    Posted on August 28, 2011 at 5:52pm

    A boy named Sue?

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    • metalurgy
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 6:11pm

      Well mah daddy left home when I was three
      An‘ he didn’t leave much to ma and me
      ‘Cept this gutar and an empty ol’ bottle o’ booze…

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    • jb.kibs
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 11:03pm

      God bless johnny cash. ;)

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  • thegreatcarnac
    Posted on August 28, 2011 at 5:52pm

    You explained everything when you said…“public schools”. He needs to be a little darker,..then he can do what he wants.

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  • capitalismrocks
    Posted on August 28, 2011 at 5:51pm

    Okay, I could see a compromise … fine, remove the earring, what is a kid his age doing wearing an earring….

    As for the hair, I think the school admin should make a special exception and it would be a positive PR thing for the school and could end up getting other kids to do it and it would help a good cause.

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    • loriann12
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 6:00pm

      “The district’s parent-student handbook says boys cannot wear earrings. It also requires they have their hair neat, clean and well-groomed.”

      I didn’t see in there where it said boys have to have short hair. Well groomed could be interpreted as combedn/brushed and looking nice. As for the earring, that’s been a rule since I was in school, I think. At least myt 21 year old son. In the Navy, we couldn’t have any fadish hair cut. Black women were hit for dying their hair burgandy. No rat tales (which I promptly ignored at first because I was a rebel, just pinned it up while on duty and hid it in my hair).

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  • Slayer
    Posted on August 28, 2011 at 5:50pm

    If the kid had worn a dress and high heels, handed out condoms, denounced God, and spoke up for abortion rights, he’d be a hero right now – and probably head of the school board in his district.

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  • Libby Tarian
    Posted on August 28, 2011 at 5:49pm

    Why would anyone send their lovely children into a Government run school. The Government makes us pay for this substandard education system, we pay more and more each year. I would like to opt out, but I am a property owner and I have to pay or they will take my home.

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  • BonnieBlueFlag
    Posted on August 28, 2011 at 5:47pm

    Who cares if it is supposedly for charity? Follow the rules like everyone else, please. Mom, why don’t you shave your head and donate for him? Oh, because it is really just about attention and special privileges for you and yours. Who has their 6 y.o. fixated on cancer anyway? A psycho seeking attention that’s who. Let them be children!

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    • 82dAirborne
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 5:54pm

      Wow. Do you kick puppies too????

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    • crackerone
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 5:54pm

      Willing to bet, Dad has a mullet.

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    • WhoIsTheCoon
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 5:59pm

      Maybe someone in his family has cancer? Maybe someone taught him about how lucky he is to be healthy? Maybe his parents have morals and wanted to show him how good it is to self sacrifice at a young age, so when he grows up he understands the concept and isn’t a miscreant when he is a teen? It is called charity the younger you start the more it is a value consistent with your lifestyle. Maybe, your parents should have taught you some values.

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    • Libertarian B 4 Libertarians Were Cool
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 6:00pm

      All this rules are rules crap, makes me think there are a lot of mindless followers on this board.

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    • BonnieBlueFlag
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 6:03pm

      @82nd

      Two things I don’t do:

      1. Fall for manipulative appeals to emotion dismissing reason, logic, order or justice
      2. Kick puppies

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    • toto
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 6:07pm

      Crackerone, there probably isn’t a dad in the house or he would have put his foot down.

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    • crackerone
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 6:28pm

      @TOTO

      You are probably right. Saw the ring on her finger, it must be from her wife.

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    • rangerp
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 6:40pm

      @toto

      Or she is married, and it is a the new wave gutless males that we now seem to see as prevalent in this country.

      One of the meterosexual types, that is fine with raising a little queer. Typical new wave man that does not have any backbone, never reads the Bible, has no ability to stand up and fight, but lets his wife lead the family, while he sits back playing video games, wathcing his NFL, and drinking his beer.

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    • jb.kibs
      Posted on August 28, 2011 at 11:13pm

      poor bonnie… what made you so neo-emo?

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    • KNaggieland
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 12:37am

      @Bonnie
      Wow, just wow, May you always find the world showing you the same kindness and compassion you have shown. Kids are now less human or aware of painful subjects than the adults. Sometimes cancer strikes close to home. Like maybe his dad, did we see him in the video? Can I live in your world, it seems bad things never happen to people that have a close relationships with children. And children are never affected by bad things either.

      @ RANGERRP
      When was the last time you read your bible and actually learned anything from it? Oh wait let me guess you are one of those perfect Christians without sin who can act as the mind of God and tell us lesser Christians how to live. I checked and while I may be a lesser Christian in your eyes I could find no reference to Gods will on this subject, though we could argue the being charitable, compassionate and giving vs. being a Pharisee. But that is probably because I am a lesser Christian and not as “clued into” Gods mind like a Perfect Judgmental Christian such as yourself.

      Have you met Bonnie she seems to have a perfect master plan for the rest of us too. May you could wipe out those damn long haired gangster thug 6 year olds living on what is obviously a farm, a known breeding ground for unwholesome unAmerican ideals.

      “The King will reply, ‘I tell you the truth, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me.” Mathew 25:40

      Try Psalm 103 1-5 and see if it helps you.

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    • TheValley
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 8:20am

      Excellent and right on point, nice to see a few who still have their mind and aren’t molded by emotion.

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  • thetreyman
    Posted on August 28, 2011 at 5:45pm

    good for you kid. i have been doing the same thing for about a year.

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