I agree that this woman hasn't got much of a leg to stand on. Whether we agree with it or not, the school can pretty much do what it wants.
But as someone who spent most of his childhood and adolescence in a school which punished students for having "distracting" hairstyles - which they chose to define more or less as anything that wasn't a crewcut - I have to say that I don't think much of grooming codes, particularly when a hairstyle that the kid has had for the entire school year is for some reason regarded as "disruptive" and "interfering with the conduct of education." I mean, come on, the kid comes in with his head freshly shaved and the school authorities treat it like it's some kind of crisis? How pitiful.
I kind of think it's idiocy to give your kid a mohawk anyway. Children are not for playing dress up, and you probably shouldn't be purposely putting them in the position to be singled out as "the weird kid" at such an early age. Let them make that decision when they're old enough to know the consequences.
Clearly, the kid's mother is TOO X-TREME to give a shit that her actions are disrupting her child's education. Fuck that bitch.
I don't think that's a healthy attitude. Some kids can't help but be weird, and they aren't helped by the idea that weirdness ought to be avoided whenever possible, especially when authority figures themselves perpetuate the notion.
StarBelliedBoy said:
I kind of think it's idiocy to give your kid a mohawk anyway. Children are not for playing dress up, and you probably shouldn't be purposely putting them in the position to be singled out as "the weird kid" at such an early age. Let them make that decision when they're old enough to know the consequences.
Clearly, the kid's mother is TOO X-TREME to give a shit that her actions are disrupting her child's education. Fuck that bitch.
My 6 year old has a mohawk currently, and he's been sporting it off and on for months. He asked for it specifically, and we made him think about it for a few days before we did it. It had nothing to do with using him as a dress up doll, and it suits him. Sometimes kids have strong opinions about what they like, and I don't see that as particularly harmful.
Hell, my 9 year old insists on wearing jeans, an untucked dress shirt, blazer and loose tie to school as often as he can... and you can bet it wasn't my wife or I who dressed him up like the Stroke's mascot.
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DevilsReject
Cleveland, OH
February 2007
FEB 28, 2008 02:34 AM
Hooraydiation said:
I don't think that's a healthy attitude. Some kids can't help but be weird, and they aren't helped by the idea that weirdness ought to be avoided whenever possible, especially when authority figures themselves perpetuate the notion.
you're not talking about a personality disorder, or mental retardation, you're talking about a haircut. Something that can be changed without medication or years of therapy. You're also not talking about being naturally uncoordinated or being a bit dorky, or having thick eyeglasses, it's a freaking hair cut. Something that has the very simple potential to be changed.
It's not like he is unintentionally being weird, he is intentionally having his hair cut to draw attention to himself. That and he's 6. Every kid is weird at 6.
I live in Parma, they are right about the Charter schools. But the public schools are just as strict. My 8 year old daughter was sent home one day with a note that her attire didn't fit the standard described in the handbook, this was her first warning. Here's what i did, i changed her attire to meet the standards they expect.
I didn't run to the local news and cry. The standards were given to me, i expect results out of them, they expect me to meet their standards. If they don't meet my expectations, they would damn well hear from me, as much as i expect to hear from them. It's a two way street.
welcome to life. Like any of us don't get discriminated against because of our piercings, tattoos or hair color. But we also choose to have them, if anything they're teaching this kid how life works, if you choose to be different, you're more than likely going to take criticism for it, and potentially have to pay a price for it.
Plus this woman was warned three times. Not once, not twice, threeeeeeee times. The kid is 6, he really doesn't have any idea of whats really even going on, just a general idea. I'd really like to hear how she explained it to him. "You got kicked out of school because mommy lets you do whatever you want, you wanted a mohawk, you got it"
This will work well at his felonious assault hearing in 10 years "You're in court because mommy lets you do whatever you want, you wanted to kick the shit out of that kid, you got it"
Kids can't always have what they want, it's our responsibility as parents to teach them what "No" or "that's not appropriate" means, that way they don't grow up as spoiled little brats that get everything.
The charter schools aren't the greatest, but the Parma Public School system is a very good system, in so much that i have to prove to them every year that i live in Parma, because so many people from other cities are trying to sneak their kids into the school system fraudulently. They also do random checks to make sure i actually reside in the City.
StarBelliedBoy said:
I kind of think it's idiocy to give your kid a mohawk anyway. Children are not for playing dress up, and you probably shouldn't be purposely putting them in the position to be singled out as "the weird kid" at such an early age. Let them make that decision when they're old enough to know the consequences.
Clearly, the kid's mother is TOO X-TREME to give a shit that her actions are disrupting her child's education. Fuck that bitch.
My 6 year old has a mohawk currently, and he's been sporting it off and on for months. He asked for it specifically, and we made him think about it for a few days before we did it. It had nothing to do with using him as a dress up doll, and it suits him. Sometimes kids have strong opinions about what they like, and I don't see that as particularly harmful.
Hell, my 9 year old insists on wearing jeans, an untucked dress shirt, blazer and loose tie to school as often as he can... and you can bet it wasn't my wife or I who dressed him up like the Stroke's mascot.
Well, if your kid was getting sent home from school for that reason, I'd probably call you an asshole, too.
Mohawks in 2008 are bad form. If it was 1976 or 1984 I would be behind the kid, but c'mon. Send him to detention for at least a year and let him grow out that hair.
But seriously, the mother should be suspended and given a Mohawk herself.
mingol
Singapore
July 2005
FEB 27, 2008 02:48 PM