Pre-k student in trouble over long hair

[The Straight Story]

Pre-k student in trouble over long hair


MESQUITE, Texas, Dec. 15 (UPI) -- A Texas woman said officials at her 4-year-old son's school told her the prekindergarten student will be kicked out of school if she does not have his hair cut.

Elizabeth Taylor said her son, Taylor Pugh, has been learning in a room separate from the rest of his class at Floyd Elementary School in Mesquite, Texas, since the school's principal told her the boy's hair was too long at the end of October, The Dallas Morning News reported Tuesday.

"He only goes two and half hours a day. He's not a distraction. He doesn't get teased," the mother said.

She said she will not comply with the school's wishes because her son likes long hair and his father, who has American Indian heritage, wears his hair long.

http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2009/12/15/Pre-k-student-in-trouble-over-long-hair/UPI-79411260906663/

[elehhhhna]

1. he;s datianed in another room b/c his mom is having a standoff w/ the school?

they're all idiots. except for him.

[TheMightyFavog]

2. Jeezus, who's the principal, Joe Friday?

End of Line.

[Alexander]

3. The only time I was ever criticized for long hair was in Arizona.

A pity how some places are still stuck in the 1950s.

[HuckleB]

6. Actually, it can happen anywhere.

It actually happened to me much less in AZ, than it did in the midwest, back in the 1980s.

[Alexander]

7. It can, but for me, it hasn't.

I've been to about 35 states and a dozen countries, and the only time anyone cared enough to say something about it was in Arizona.

[HuckleB]

8. I'd say that's a random incident.

I'm not a fan of Arizona, but I don't think that's common.

[Alexander]

9. So random, it happened twice.

Culturally speaking, the Phoenix area is stuck in the Dark Ages.

[HuckleB]

10. It is stuck in the dark ages.

But it's no different than anywhere else in terms of judging long hair.

[Alexander]

12. Sure it is.

Arizona's really conservative. Perhaps even more so than it was in the 1980s, with the influx of right-wing retirees and snowbirds. The Midwest isn't what it used to be either. These incidents happened recently, not in the 80s.

I'm really not surprised that a place which continually elects Sheriff Joe time and again would have a lot of people who hate guys with long hair. Sheriff Joe himself orders long hair to be cut off of male inmates at Tent City, even if they are Native Americans.

Yes, it could theoretically happen anywhere, but the sheer number of right-wingers, old people and idiots in the Maricopa County area means that it's much more likely to happen there than, say, San Francisco.

[MadBadger]

4. Some schools are so fucked up.

[HuckleB]

5. Apparently this is a public school pre-K program?

How can they have a dress code in regard to hair length?

:shrug:

[struggle4progress]

14. It's a Dallas suburb, so the establishment folk around there are probably wingnut authoritarians:

their main issue will be When we tell you to jump, you should ask "How high?"

They'll have secondary issues, of course: they're likely to quote St. Paul on long hair being a shame to men, if you catch them in an unguarded moment; and diversity arguments won't count for squat with them. But the big big issue for these folk is probably We're in charge, so you'll do what we say

[LeftHander]

11. "tip your hat to the lady son..."

"And when I did all that hair fell out from under my hat."

[FourScore]

13. This sounds like a bad flashback to 1968.

BTW, whatvever happened to those LSD flashbacks I was promised?

[demigoddess]

15. aha!! it is not the hair but the american Indian heritage.

the boy simply wants to be like his dad and they cannot abide that.

I fought with the texas schools because they wanted parents of handicapped/retarded children to keep their kids at home rather than send them to school, when the federal law allowed them to do so. They eventually treated the children so badly , a lot of parents took their kids out of school. Texas! Bah! humbug!! throw the book at them.