4-Year-Old Texas Boy Kept Out of Classroom Because of Long Hair
The battle over a little boy's long hair rages on in Texas, after his parents rejected a compromise offer from a school board.
The drama began last November, when the school board in Mesquite pulled 4-year-old Taylor Pugh from his pre-kindergarten class because his hair was too long. It seems the board has a rule about boys' hair: "It must be kept out of the eyes and cannot extend below the bottom of earlobes or over the collar of a dress shirt." Taylor's hair is longer than that.
Taylor has since been serving an in-school suspension, sequestered with a teacher's aide in a library.
At a meeting with the school board Monday, the board agreed to allow Taylor to keep his long hair, except he would have to keep it braided and out no longer than his ears. His parents rejected that and will fight on.
The district is known for standing tough on its dress code. Last year, a seventh-grader was sent home for wearing black skinny pants. His parents chose to home-school him.
On its Web site, the district says its code is in place because "students who dress and groom themselves neatly, and in an acceptable and appropriate manner, are more likely to become constructive members of the society in which we live."
Here's a report from the Associated Press:
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Are they serious?
" students who dress and groom themselves neatly, and in an acceptable and appropriate manner, are more likely to become constructive members of the society in which we live."
How many vague perception based words can be in one sentence?
These people should be thanking their lucky stars that I am not a famous long-haired musician....because I would show up in Mesquite for a concert on a regular basis....and EVERY SINGLE PENNY gained would go to this child 's parents for them to fight this stupidity.
Ted Nugent....where are you?....jump on this...you're the man!
Personally I like long hair on little boys, but of course I am a product of the Hippie 60's generation and my son kept his long locks of snowy white hair clear up to the time he was old enough to make his own mind up about his hair. Since he decided way back as a child to keep his hair short, it has always been short. I still miss his longer hair which emerged as blonde in the 80's. Since the short style came back, that is how he keeps it. Oh, for the days. The shorn look is not for me, as I like to run my fingers through hair. An "Ole Hippie." LOL
We have kids being expelled for carrying nail clippers. A validictorian expelled for having wooden rifles in her car for a color guard parade. A junior in high school expelled parking his pick up off campus after duck hunting before shool with locked and unloaded shot guns . C'mon.
We strip search Sven at an air port and are afraid to confront Abdul for fear of racial profiling . C'mon
The kid is a 4 year old. How does hair in his eyes and over his ears affect his brain and learning capacity. C'mon.
If a school has a dress code and not a learning code it is time to get him/her out of there. Put those schools out of business. They can't operate long hair or short hair without money . Leave those kids alone.
I willing to bet that most of the people on that school board are Christians .
Would they kick Jesus out of the classroom because of his long hair?
What does it matter anyway, why can the girls have long hair and not the boys?
I can certainly understand the parent's not wanting to cut his hair, as I've got extremely long hair myself.
However, considering the school regulations , I have to say they are in the right, if just because it's established. I don't really agree with the rule, but all the same, it's in place, and should be respected.
but a comment on the class itself... Pre-Kindergarten? I thought kindergarten was supposed to be a buffer of sorts into a real classroom. so it's a buffer into a buffer? Unless they mean pre-school...
My oldest son started school in Texas with hair this long. He is about to finish his PhD in March. The expenditure in legal fees, and distraction is moronic. The school boards who would act as parents rather than educators want to validate their own prejudice.
Texas education has been going down under the reign of Gov. G.W. Bush and Gov. Rick Perry. Their followers are more excited about forcing children to conform than teaching.
I'm guessing that, if you ask these same people who banned Taylor for his long hair about "parent's rights," they'd say firmly that parents should have the ultimate say in how to raise their children . But then they do something like this! What is wrong with this picture?!
If the parents are unwilling to let their kid learn to respect authority and are prepared to use their 4yo as a political football then they should have the kid taken off them. They do not deserve to be parents. It would take nothing to get a hair cut for him and that is the dress standards of the school .
While they are getting patted on the head by the leftie media the kid is excluded from his peers. I'm disgusted.
Totally agree with you. The worst part is that the System is catering to the parents. :(