Magnolia ISD - long-haired freaky people need not attend

[MaybeACoordinator 8,350]

Cloak Room that shit, dumbass. 

[WhatTheBuck 28,813]

20 hours ago, Jerry Callo said:

Well, that's a song I've been singing incorrectly for several decades.

Maybe that’s a sign. 

[tbone_ 14,199]

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.

We’re you aware of this dress code when your kid started attending this school?

[Doc Reeves 6,434]

 Perhaps people are unaware of the radial conservative unified plan to challenge and change small town society in this state until it resembles something from the 50s? You know, rejection of socialism, fuck Biden and all that.

There is some serious crazy you guys are in for.

[The Royal We 3,072]

5 hours ago, tbone_ said:

We’re you aware of this dress code when your kid started attending this school?

I think we found out about it when we went to meet the teacher and got the welcome packet right before school started.  His hair was never what I would consider long - it wasn't shoulder length or anything, just getting close to his collar in the back.

[tbone_ 14,199]

 Perhaps people are unaware of the radial conservative unified plan to challenge and change small town society in this state until it resembles something from the 50s? You know, rejection of socialism, fuck Biden and all that.
There is some serious crazy you guys are in for.

I just went to a funeral in Sunnyvale today. Grandmother was one of 12 and grandfather was one of 10, all from Quitman/Mineola area. Lots of East Texan in my family. Think my mother has 51 first cousins. I love my family but pretty sure every one of them at the funeral today would subscribe to your newsletter.

[Nice Guy Eddie 13,529]

On 10/22/2021 at 11:13 AM, 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.

Old man alert. I attended Texas public school in the 70s and 80s. We had no option for shorts. Jeans every day for 13 years. I recall being surprised that a few years later seeing shorts in schools.

[Liquor and Poker 3,659]

I attended Texas public school in the 70s and 80s and no one gave a shit about hair length. We could wear shorts.  But the Assistant Principal got his dick hard by walking up to girls and making them kneel to prove their skirts touched the ground. 
 

[Nice Guy Eddie 13,529]

I can’t recall anything about hair length for boys back in the day. Also it was a small town school and 80% of the boys played sports and the coaches could have their own rules about long hair. The only dress code drama I remember was a girl dyeing her hair something like bright red or purple and they made her wear a wig.

[texashorne 1,178]

I would imagine the teachers hate this stupid rule that they have to enforce in the classroom. 

When I was in HS in 2000, we still had the no facial hair thing going.. AP's monitored the halls with razors and barbasol and sent dudes to the bathroom to shave. Then they were tardy. Then disrupted class when they came in late. 

[NeverMarryAStripper 21,976]

Long hair is a gateway fashion.  The next thing you know they’re coming to school in tie dyed shirts and sandals.

We moved out of Magnolia after my son’s 6th grade year and he was pissed at me because he had to leave his friends.  When he graduated from Stratford last year his hair was down well past his shoulders.  

Edited October 24, 2021 by NeverMarryAStripper

[Nice Guy Eddie 13,529]

I can imagine that small town ISD school boards and their hires have regressed in terms of values. Of course, I guess that depends on your point of view.

[RPM 26,368]

On 10/23/2021 at 5:30 AM, WhatTheBuck said:

Maybe that’s a sign. 

Do this, don't do that. Can't you read the sign?

[GopherRock 1,770]

So, was there a sign anywhere?

[Nice Guy Eddie 13,529]

5 minutes ago, GopherRock said:

So, was there a sign anywhere?

yeah. blocking out the scenery, breaking my mind.

[hookemATL 11,934]

1 minute ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

yeah. blocking out the scenery, breaking my mind.

Do this, don’t do that. 

[SHOOTER12 8,836]

When I went to school, (graduated in '75), the rule was bottom of the collar in the back and bottom of the ear on the sides, and no facial hair.

[RDCanecutter 26,478]

On 10/22/2021 at 11:13 AM, 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.

Tell the Assistant Principal that your son is in training as a Texas Revolution reenactor. See if the man wants to take the side of that dictator Santa Anna.

[Nice Guy Eddie 13,529]

I see a federal judge allowed the students back. https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Judge-temporarily-halts-enforcement-of-Magnolia-16563210.php

Reading between the lines, the core problem is an elementary school student that identifies as nonbinary. In the original article from the OP, the claim is that the student switches gender identification from time to time. If a school is allowed to have dress codes by gender, then it creates issues when a student periodically changes gender identification. Perhaps there shouldn't be dress codes by gender but if you have one, how do you manage someone that goes from side to the other? Should their be a 3rd dress code?

[conVINCEd 21,473]

The Houston Chronicle’s website sucks donkey balls.

[NeverMarryAStripper 21,976]

That's an insult to sucking donkey balls.  It's just completely unusable.

[Nice Guy Eddie 13,529]

meh. copy in the spoiler for non-subscribers

Spoiler

A federal judge in Houston has ordered a limited and temporary halt to Magnolia ISD’s grooming policy that requires boys to keep their hair short, while there is no such rule for girls in the district.

Chief U.S. District Judge Lee H. Rosenthal said students were being harmed by a policy and granted a reprieve to four long-haired students involved in a lawsuit over the mandate.

Rosenthal’s ruling comes just days after seven children, ages 7 to 17, sued the district asking to be removed from suspension and other disciplinary measures and be allowed to attend class, extracurricular activities and hang out with their peers.

In the suit, the ACLU of Texas, the ACLU Women’s Rights Project and three major Houston law firms asked the court to permanently block a policy the plaintiffs consider unlawful, discriminatory and harmful.

The district has said its grooming policy complies with state law and is in line with community values.

“Like hundreds of public school districts in Texas and across the country, MISD’s rules for dress and grooming distinguish between male and female dress and grooming standards,” a district spokesperson, Denise Meyers, said last week. Meyers did not respond to a request Monday for a comment on the ruling.

The judge’s emergency restraining order covers a small group of students she said were being harmed by the policy. Three are children who kept their hair long and ultimately stopped attending school in the district as a result of the policy. Rosenthal ordered the district to let them back to class.

The fourth, a nonbinary child who sometimes wears barrettes and clips in their locks, was allowed back in class under an exemption that was set to expire this week. For this student, the judge extended the exemption.

The judge said she’d tackle at the next hearing what to do about three other plaintiffs who reluctantly cut their hair at the start of school in August but are growing it back.

The next hearing, on a preliminary injunction, is set for Nov. 10. If granted, such an order would last until the lawsuit is resolved, and it could potentially extend to more children.

Attorney Brian Klosterboer, from the ACLU of Texas, said he spoke with these students’ parents and they said the young plaintiffs were “elated.”

“They’re so happy to go back to school,” Klosterboer said.

The nonbinary fifth-grader, who uses “they” and “them” pronouns, challenged the suspension after their story was featured in the Chronicle. The district then granted the student a temporary reprieve.

Danielle Miller, the mother of that student, said her family is thrilled their child “will be able to attend classes, at least temporarily, without fear of punishment over how they express themselves.”

“No student should be discriminated against based on gender, and our local community has risen up to fight for the rights of our kids,” Miller said. “It’s frustrating that Magnolia refuses to simply change this outdated policy and focus on education.”

The family was planning a special treat Monday night to celebrate the federal judge ruling in their favor, Miller said.

They were planning to have ice cream for dinner.

 

[yoladu 4,111]

On 10/24/2021 at 8:00 AM, Nice Guy Eddie said:

Old man alert. I attended Texas public school in the 70s and 80s. We had no option for shorts. Jeans every day for 13 years. I recall being surprised that a few years later seeing shorts in schools.

I was a jeans guy every day too. never complained, but i don't think shorts were option either.. 80s san antonio.

On 10/24/2021 at 8:12 AM, Liquor and Poker said:

But the Assistant Principal got his dick hard by walking up to girls and making them kneel to prove their skirts touched the ground. 

It's the wild west now. the shorts girls wear at school are very short these days. Shockingly short.

[crash_davis 23,117]

i had a male middle school teacher who always would be carrying boxes with box hands to class. the door is always locked. the key is always in his front pocket. everytime he would ask a girl to reach into his pocket to grab his keys and unlock the door. there was one hot chick in the class. if she were around, he would always as her for the reach around.

as a 7th grader i was oblivious to what he was doing. thinking back on it a decade later, yay that was creepy and pervy af. i get cringey just thinking about it now, many decades later.

[CooterBrown 18,034]

i had a male middle school teacher who always would be carrying boxes with box hands to class. the door is always locked. the key is always in his front pocket. everytime he would ask a girl to reach into his pocket to grab his keys and unlock the door. there was one hot chick in the class. if she were around, he would always as her for the reach around.
as a 7th grader i was oblivious to what he was doing. thinking back on it a decade later, yay that was creepy and pervy af. i get cringey just thinking about it now, many decades later.

Are you 100? IIRC, ArmyBrat taught middle school in the roaring twenties.

[High Plains Drifter 11,053]

On 10/22/2021 at 11:13 AM, 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.

 

 

 

 

[gyroprotagonist 2,595]

23 hours ago, crash_davis said:

i had a male middle school teacher who always would be carrying boxes with box hands to class. the door is always locked. the key is always in his front pocket. everytime he would ask a girl to reach into his pocket to grab his keys and unlock the door. there was one hot chick in the class. if she were around, he would always as her for the reach around.

as a 7th grader i was oblivious to what he was doing. thinking back on it a decade later, yay that was creepy and pervy af. i get cringey just thinking about it now, many decades later.

JFC, did this creep pull the popcorn trick during class when projector was running?

 

[HRSchenker 2,275]

On 10/21/2021 at 10:42 PM, 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. 

I had the same dress code in school too. Boys hair was not allowed to go over the ears, sideburns could not go below the earlobe, front hair could not touch eyebrows, and hair in the back could not touch the collar of your shirt. We also had to be clean shaven and any sort of facial hair earned you a trip to the bathroom with a one blade bic. I remember our principal telling us "we prohibit facial hair because only drug dealers have facial hair and there won't be any goddamn drug dealing in my school". Of course I ended up being a drug dealer, albeit a legal one lol 

On 10/22/2021 at 8:27 AM, 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. 

My high school English teacher was a total bitch about hats for visitors. If you walked inside the school with a hat on she would yell at you to take it off. It was the same diatribe "Hey! Take your hat off! You're inside a school with women and children! Show some respect!" I still don't understand what she meant by that (can't ask her now because she's dead). 

[NeverMarryAStripper 21,976]

4 hours ago, HRSchenker said:

My high school English teacher was a total bitch about hats for visitors. If you walked inside the school with a hat on she would yell at you to take it off. It was the same diatribe "Hey! Take your hat off! You're inside a school with women and children! Show some respect!" I still don't understand what she meant by that (can't ask her now because she's dead). 

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On 10/27/2021 at 4:58 PM, NeverMarryAStripper said: