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As a teacher, I believe kids should be able to express themselves as long as it's not offensive to other students. There is nothing wrong with having a hair color that is different.
The school should be required to provide proof that it is a distraction, all this is doing is teaching kids it is quite ok to force your beleifs onto others for no real reason other than "I said so". This will eventually find its way into real life and these brainwashed idiots will be running around trying to tell everyone and their brother what to do as they about do or try to do now.
You mean they become government bureaucrats or politicians?
One of the key parts of civil disobedience that most people forget is the willingness to accept the punishment of disobeying the law. Accepting that punishment, whether it is jail time or suspension, is part of the effort to bring attention to the issue.
The kid should realize that in the same amendment that guarantees freedom of expression we are guaranteed the right to petition our government for a redress of grievances. Talk to the principal and try to convince him or her to change the policy and to justify it. Go to the school board and express your opinion there and lobby for change. If it truly is a free speech issue, then there is a good chance that the regulation will be overturned. If there are other factors, at least the kid has the chance to learn the other side and why they think it is justified.
Or they could just color their hair, knowing that they are violating policy, and face the consequences that have been clearly spelled out.
Civil disobedience is about changing a law that is fundamentally unfair by breaking that law and accepting the punishment with your head held high. If I were the principal of the school, I'd tell the kid that they can come to school, but they will spend the next three days reading "On Civil Disobedience" by Thoreau and "Letter from Birmingham Jail" by King. Then I'd spend an hour or two with the kid talking about those documents to make sure that he understands them.
Students don't surrender their First Amendment rights when they step into the halls of school. We all have the freedom of expression, and may exercise that freedom however we choose so long as we do not inhibit anyone elses' rights by doing so. To ban her hairstyle at a public school is unConstitutional.
Let me see now,....it is STUPID for a 12 yr old to dye her hair....and a poster says she dyed her hair at 13 and thinks it is okay. Something is wrong here. Some 12 yr olds are smarter then 13 yr olds these days. I raised three daughters and saw how they changed in puberty years. Steve
Let me see now,....it is STUPID for a 12 yr old to dye her hair....and a poster says she dyed her hair at 13 and thinks it is okay. Something is wrong here. Some 12 yr olds are smarter then 13 yr olds these days. I raised three daughters and saw how they changed in puberty years. Steve
She was being sarcastic, Steve.
Some public schools in my area have instituted a uniform policy. If someone were to come in without uniform, because they're exercising their freedom to dress as they want, are they right to do so? Should they have to gain an exception, or even go through the trouble. Just because the school is public does not mean they can't make rules.
I too think hair color shouldn't matter.............BUT....if the rules were in place prior to the hair dyeing...and I know that at all schools there is a handbook given out, then she broke those rules. Now if they implemented it after she did it, too bad on them. But if they didn't...however stupid of a rule it is, it is a rule.
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