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Jerry Callo

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What the hell is going on?  Flashback to 1960 or something?

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/a-texas-school-district-bans-boys-from-wearing-long-hair-now-some-students-are-suing/ar-AAPN9n4?ocid=uxbndlbing

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School officials in Texas forced a 9-year-old boy to serve an in-school suspension for a month, deprived him of recess and normal lunch breaks, and banished him from campus to an alternative school — all to pressure the fourth-grader into getting a haircut, a new lawsuit says.

 

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Both my boys have eschewed major haircuts for the better part of a year (somewhat irregular trims ever month or two).  I say good for them.  Older one has a good 70s thing going; younger one has a pretty sweet fro.  Naturally, both are handsome as can be.

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Bumfuck East Texas high school 2007: etex, looks like you have some (admittedly weak at the time) facial hair that isn’t a creepy mustache and your hair covers your ears. Time for you to go to the bathroom with this pair of construction paper scissors and a one blade razor! 
 

this, and a couple shitty teachers (as well as being able to transfer and end up #2 in my class/auto UT entry) led me to switching high schools midway through but what a load of shit. Fuck all of that. I’ve got my own personal issues with stuff like this, but really, what’s the issue? If a kid smells bad or has terrible hygiene that’s one thing, but this mostly sounds like good ol boys being good ol boys. 

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16 hours ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

0 days since Texas was a (inter)national embarrassment

Similarly how we start threads on here which often begin with “Where else…Florida”, I imagine message boards and newscasts in approximately 48 other states have something similar on an all-too-frequent occurrence for us.  

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9 hours ago, Etexhorn13 said:

Bumfuck East Texas high school 2007: etex, looks like you have some (admittedly weak at the time) facial hair that isn’t a creepy mustache and your hair covers your ears. Time for you to go to the bathroom with this pair of construction paper scissors and a one blade razor! 
 

this, and a couple shitty teachers (as well as being able to transfer and end up #2 in my class/auto UT entry) led me to switching high schools midway through but what a load of shit. Fuck all of that. I’ve got my own personal issues with stuff like this, but really, what’s the issue? If a kid smells bad or has terrible hygiene that’s one thing, but this mostly sounds like good ol boys being good ol boys. 

In the RGV circa 1997-2000 the code for boys was no hair over the collar or ears and no facial hair beyond a “neat and well groomed mustache.” Not a deal at the time as the fashion was very much high and tight anyway.

The hill I died on was arguing that my leather Reef flops were not “shower shoes” as described in the dress code; I lost that argument with the assistant principal and mom was salty about fetching me some sneakers from home. The school was an open hallway campus and midway through sophomore year they banned baseball caps anywhere on campus because the school across town was closed in and didn’t allow caps inside. 

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Isn't your hair part of your body?  Isn't this small government telling people what to do with their bodies?  

END HAIR MANDATES NOW!  

There was a girl in our junior high that literally had hair down to the back of her knees.  She had been growing it out since birth and she used to fling around to hit people with (which I thought was funny).  I think she was half Polish, half Roma...so maybe some kinda family tradition.  And I remember a teacher cutting steve mitchell's hair in front of the whole class over a trashcan because it reached past his collar.  I remember teachers making a big deal about kids hair and dress codes and skirts and proper shoes for gym and all that crap.  But it's funny, I don't remember learning anything academic in junior high.

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Other federal courts have struck down gender specific dress codes similar to the one in Magnolia.  ACLU is fighting this one under the same logic.  Either the Fifth Circuit will agree with the Seventh Circuit or there will be a split of authority for SCOTUS.  Of all of the shit going on in the world, why the hell does anyone give a damn about hair length.

 

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My oldest son is in 6th grade at a very small school (K-12 at one campus) and the dress code is ridiculous.  Hair has to be 3 inches above the collar and boys have to wear f'n pants to school every day.  I was dropping him off a few months ago and the assistant principal who holds the door in the morning come up to my window and tells me it's time for my son to get a haircut.  "I keep a list of hair offenders and he's getting really close to being on it."  We are aware of the rule and actually already had plans for him to get a haircut at the end of that week, but I just said, "mmm hmmm" and straight up rolled my eyes in this dude's face.  I couldn't really help it, it was involuntary.  I could tell he was pissed at me, but other than me being worried he's going to take it out on my son, I DGAF. 

Don't we have more important things to be worried about!?  And yea, these same asshats were the ones saying they couldn't have any kind of mask mandate because it would violate muh freedoms.  If you don't want to require masks, fine, but don't say you can't do it because we're in Murica while at the same time having a corps turdish dress code.

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3 hours ago, 956 Worldwide said:

In the RGV circa 1997-2000 the code for boys was no hair over the collar or ears and no facial hair beyond a “neat and well groomed mustache.” Not a deal at the time as the fashion was very much high and tight anyway.

The hill I died on was arguing that my leather Reef flops were not “shower shoes” as described in the dress code; I lost that argument with the assistant principal and mom was salty about fetching me some sneakers from home. The school was an open hallway campus and midway through sophomore year they banned baseball caps anywhere on campus because the school across town was closed in and didn’t allow caps inside. 

The hair thing was just no hair covering the eyes by the time I went through. I wanna say still no beards were allowed but I never saw that enforced. No one had a full beard anyway.

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34 minutes ago, The Royal We said:

My oldest son is in 6th grade at a very small school (K-12 at one campus) and the dress code is ridiculous.  Hair has to be 3 inches above the collar and boys have to wear f'n pants to school every day.  I was dropping him off a few months ago and the assistant principal who holds the door in the morning come up to my window and tells me it's time for my son to get a haircut.  "I keep a list of hair offenders and he's getting really close to being on it."  We are aware of the rule and actually already had plans for him to get a haircut at the end of that week, but I just said, "mmm hmmm" and straight up rolled my eyes in this dude's face.  I couldn't really help it, it was involuntary.  I could tell he was pissed at me, but other than me being worried he's going to take it out on my son, I DGAF. 

Don't we have more important things to be worried about!?  And yea, these same asshats were the ones saying they couldn't have any kind of mask mandate because it would violate muh freedoms.  If you don't want to require masks, fine, but don't say you can't do it because we're in Murica while at the same time having a corps turdish dress code.

Is this a private school?

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Nope, tiny little public school way out in the East Texas woods.

I would tell them to fuck off and tell my kid he’s not getting a haircut for a while.  If it was private, you made a choice to go there, you follow their rules.  A public school keeping a hair offenders list is one of the dumbest things I have ever heard.  His body, his choice.  Judging by your geographic location, I’m guessing no masks and a low vaccination rate because personal freedom?

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Just now, conVINCEd said:

I would tell them to fuck off and tell my kid he’s not getting a haircut for a while.  If it was private, you made a choice to go there, you follow their rules.  A public school keeping a hair offenders list is one of the dumbest things I have ever heard.  His body, his choice.  Judging by your geographic location, I’m guessing no masks and a low vaccination rate because personal freedom?

I seriously considered it, but it's his 1st year in this school and I don't want anyone treating him differently because his dad is an asshole.  But, he didn't really want to get it cut.  He's got glorious hair and his dad/both grandads are bald as fuck, so he needs to live it up now while he still can...

And yes, you would be guessing correctly.

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3 minutes ago, The Royal We said:

I seriously considered it, but it's his 1st year in this school and I don't want anyone treating him differently because his dad is an asshole.  But, he didn't really want to get it cut.  He's got glorious hair and his dad/both grandads are bald as fuck, so he needs to live it up now while he still can...

And yes, you would be guessing correctly.

You’re not the asshole in this scenario.

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