Suspended for a Hair Cut?(452)

So I know our school is super lax about dress codes and all.. and im really glad about that. I recently visited a school in Ireland and we met some students who had to wear uniforms every day. And im sure they couldn’t wear hats, sport a cool backpack, or color their hair un-naturally-though, I didn’t ask. But from the responses my friends and I got from our answers about or school compared to theirs, I would assume that in so many ways, dress code is very different.

So, as we all know, there are a variety of public schools like Kennedy and private schools like Xavier throughout the U.S. who have different dress codes and different definitions of those rules. At Kennedy, we couldn’t wear hats for the longest time until this year when it became a decision for the teacher of the class room youre in to make. What I don’t understand about hats is.. how is it disrespectful to wear a hat while in school or church or while saying the pledge of allegiance? Why does the top of your head being exposed or not have anything to do with any of these things? I get why a hat would be bad at times in school. if its covering the student’s eyes or super tall so the student behind them cant see.. something along those lines-I get it. otherwise, whats the big deal?

A 5 year old in Ohio had been begging his mom forever to let him get a Mohawk haircut. So over spring break, she finally let him. His Mohawk was about an inch or two tall and fairly wide, not much gel-if any- and no color. His head wasn’t even totally shaved around the Mohawk. But when he came to school with it, it caused a little bit of a distraction in class and wait, the dress code doesn’t allow it anyway. But the code stated that hair must be cleanly cut and trimmed. His hair was fine and as the article states, so many people are sporting this doo in their everyday lives too.

I feel like the school was being ridiculous about this. Im not fond of mohawks or anything but his looks pretty good and so what his class mates thought it was cool and they wanted to touch it? kay, let them talk about it for a few seconds and they’ll be over it. yeah, they’ll still think its cool but while theyre sitting at their desks learning all day, are they going to be thinking about that kids Mohawk? No, they’ll be learning and onto new ideas and distractions. Its ridiculous that this child was suspended for a hairstyle he liked.