Wow. 8th grader got suspended for "crazy" hairstyle

[Chibibar]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091113..._suspension;_ylt=AtJmPdau1TEK.8BXaK2T_Bp0fNdF

It doesn't look that bad. I don't think it is distracting, then again when I was in highschool there are some crazy hairstyle and excessive use of hairspray.

This is MILD compare back in the early days.

 

[Covar]

whats the "B" stand for, Bandwagon?

 

[Chibibar]

HAMILTON, Ohio – A young Cincinnati Bengals fan has been penalized for clipping. Dustin Reader got the NFL team's stripes and "B" insignia cut into his hair as a tribute to the team's good season. When he showed up to school in the southwest Ohio city of Hamilton on Monday, officials put the eighth-grader into in-school suspension. The school said its code of conduct prohibits extreme and distracting hairstyles.

Reader's parents and barber said they don't understand why the haircut is out of bounds. His father said his son just wants to show pride in the 6-2 Bengals.

School officials said he will continue to do his studies away from other students until the hair grows back or he changes the style.

NFL team insignia

 

[Shegokigo]

I remember a friend of mine being suspended for 2 weeks for his Purple Mohawk.

The hairstyle in the article is nowhere near as bad.

 

[ElJuski]

I don't see the big deal, but I could see where a school would.

 

[Dave]

I don't see a big deal, either.

Stupid 0 tolerance bullshit rules.

 

[Covar]

HAMILTON, Ohio – A young Cincinnati Bengals fan has been penalized for clipping. Dustin Reader got the NFL team's stripes and "B" insignia cut into his hair as a tribute to the team's good season. When he showed up to school in the southwest Ohio city of Hamilton on Monday, officials put the eighth-grader into in-school suspension. The school said its code of conduct prohibits extreme and distracting hairstyles.

Reader's parents and barber said they don't understand why the haircut is out of bounds. His father said his son just wants to show pride in the 6-2 Bengals.

School officials said he will continue to do his studies away from other students until the hair grows back or he changes the style.

NFL team insignia

if that was directed at me for joke fail, if not carry on.

 

[Chibibar]

HAMILTON, Ohio – A young Cincinnati Bengals fan has been penalized for clipping. Dustin Reader got the NFL team's stripes and "B" insignia cut into his hair as a tribute to the team's good season. When he showed up to school in the southwest Ohio city of Hamilton on Monday, officials put the eighth-grader into in-school suspension. The school said its code of conduct prohibits extreme and distracting hairstyles.

Reader's parents and barber said they don't understand why the haircut is out of bounds. His father said his son just wants to show pride in the 6-2 Bengals.

School officials said he will continue to do his studies away from other students until the hair grows back or he changes the style.

NFL team insignia

if that was directed at me for joke fail, if not carry on.[/QUOTE]

It was many people have corrected me for my poor grammar and sometimes not being clear in my posts.

So I just wanted to make sure I was clear. I couldn't tell if you were joking or trying to correct me so I assume the latter.

 

[Covar]

that's fair I guess, but yes I was joking.

 

[Just Me]

WTF?
How can this be distracting? Sit him in the last row of the classroom and noone will see it.

I went to school in the 80s and boy there were hairstyles around that could be called distracting.

 

[Cajungal]

So silly. If schools insist on having strict haircut rules, they should be more specific.

And like you said just put him in the back.

 

[Green_Lantern]

If you can't pay attention to your class because a haircut you are doomed either way.

 

[Chibibar]

WTF?
How can this be distracting? Sit him in the last row of the classroom and noone will see it.

I went to school in the 80s and boy there were hairstyles around that could be called distracting.

That is what I'm saying. I have seen some more bizarre haircut than that one with COLOR (yea there was a guy with multi-color mohawk. It was pretty cool.

 

[phil]

School overreacts about nothing. News at 11.

 

[strawman]

Meh. Inner city schools do this all the time because while it 'may' be for a sports team, it is just as likely to be gang related.

 

[Dusty668]

Yah them crazy inner city tiger gangs, gotta watch out, what's next? Sharks? Jets?

 

[Gurpel]

Meh. Inner city schools do this all the time because while it 'may' be for a sports team, it is just as likely to be gang related.

isnt it mostly suburban schools that worry about this? i can't see an inner city school giving a shit: if every high school in LA threw a hissyfit every time a student sported gang colours, theyd be..... more bankrupt than they currently are.

 

[Joe Johnson]

The administrators clearly never lived through the "Flock of Seagulls" era.

 

[sixpackshaker]

The administrators clearly never lived through the "Flock of Seagulls" era.

No, they were the ones with the Flock o' gulls doo's.

 

[Null]

About 15 years ago, a local Vo-Tech high school suspended a student because of his hairdo. However, his hairdo was an array of 14" spikes - the kid must have used cans of shit every day just to keep it in shape, it looked like styrofoam or something on his head. And he was studying machining - working in a shop full of tools explicitly designed to snag loose hair and rip a student's scalp off. The principal said, "I don't really care about expression, it's simply a safety hazard." Kid's mom sued, of course, and the judge took about 40 seconds to look at the kid's head and dismiss it. He was quoted as saying something like "The school would have been criminally irresponsible to let him near operating machinery."

This is nothing.

 

[Vrii]

I went through most of high school with a bright pink, foot-long mohawk. Maybe that explains why I see nothing the least bit crazy about a B cut into his hair?