Four year old Texas boy suspended due to long hair
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Every shool, workplace, etc has their own rules and regulations that you should know BEFORE you join, however this seems really trivial and their saying its a distraction, Bollocks, he just wants to see his friends, their all making far to big a deal about this, its just a 5 year olds hair. And now one side will go on about how its against his rights and the other side will be to proud just to let it go and it will take ages to get sorted and the whole time the kid will be more and more affected.
OK lets use some metaphors, you have just joined an organisation, in this orgonistion you must kill some one. if you don't you are kicked out, but if you do you go to jail think about it. the laws of the land > the laws of the organisation. i can call the moderator a "f***ing do****bag" and wave the freedom of speech but in the court of law which would you think can stand the stronger argument. anything to do with your rules i will stand by but anything as mad as that comment i can only mock.Pimppeter2 said:
I have already said my part on this thread but I can not help myself you sir are either a troll or deprived of a dictionary.Trist66 said:
Definition of discrimination:
Treatment or consideration of, or making a distinction in favor of or against, a person or thing based on the group, class, or category to which that person or thing belongs rather than on individual merit.
Racism as you described is under the category of discrimination not defining it.
No one is forcing you to look at guys with long hair so please stop and I won't look your way either.
Roger, banhammer incoming.faye goat said:
OT: This isn't right. Hell, I had a kid in my class with hair down below his shoulders and he wasn't punished. I think the schools were a bit too harsh there.
This is idiotic. He has long hair and he likes it, why shave it off? Because it seems that it's distracting to the other students. Whoever said that never saw how a classroom functions, everything in the room is a distraction from the teachers boring voice. That's just how kids are.
Actually no, you can't. :/-AC80- said:
If you were to say sue the Escapist for banning you, claiming that it is free speech. You would get laughed out of the courthouse. You agreed not to sass the Moderation team when you joined. Its in the rules. You agreed to fallow the rules when you joined. Therefore, you also agreed that you are liable to the punishment the Escapist bestows for breaking those rules.
Your metaphor makes no sense. At all. It has absolutely no relevance. In fact, I think that you can't grasp the simple concept. The Schools rules are not over the rules of the Constitution. However, within the jurisdiction of the school, they have the right to kick you out for breaking those rules. They do not have the right to arrest you, but they do have the right to kick you out.
The organization has the right to kick you out of their group for not killing people.
I'll assume you play video games. Let's assume you play online. When you made your (lets say) Xbox Live account, you agreed not to harass other people online. Lets say, you get angry at someone and you send them a handful of angry threatening messages. This person reports you to MS. MS banns you from Xbox LIVE. Those were the rules you agreed to fallow. If you harass someone, you get booted. You can't sue MS for banning your account.
Bottom line: Its a legal document. When the parents enrolled the child, they signed a legal document fully knowing that the school can punish their students based on the rules they have instilled within their own institution.
Its the same reason you can get up and call a teacher a fuckin moron.
Why do people keep saying that to me? How am I acting different?HG131 said:
Actually, your parents did.SinisterSpade|LH| said:
And yeah, my example wasn't all that hot, but your getting down to technicalities.
The difference being, you don't sign a contract when you pay your taxes, and the state can only guarantee the offer of one school place.
If we were dealing with a private school, then fair enough. We aren't, however, and there are often no other schools available (and many won't take from outside their catchment areas anyhow). Whereas with the Escapist and forums there's actual choice, in this case, people are obliged to pay first. There's no competition from another state, so the means of resolving the matter is to go through low-level local politics. This is what these people appear to be doing.
I grew my hair long when I went to university, not because I particularly wanted to grow my hair long, just that I couldn't be bothered to ever get it cut. As I believe is the case here.Dexiro said:
But when women have their hair long they do one thing almost all long haired boys never do... they STYLE it! They cut it, shape it and treat it so that it isn't just let to grow down over the eyes, like the way I did and this kid did. It takes meticulous dedication for personal grooming that to be honest almost all males severely lack.
When guys tend to grow their hair long, it's less a case of a conscious decision and more a case of completely neglecting to ever go to the barbers. In my case where I just let my hair grow it was bloody annoying and it WAS distracting. The hair on my hairline was long enough to flop right over my face yet too short to hook behind by ears or tie with a band at the back of my head. My only solution was (what i now realise is ridiculous) was a bloody bandanna like Solid Snake!
Now the case here can be if the student can't be bothered (nor parents be bothered) to get their hair cut then they are very likely not to bother with proper measures of tying it back.
So yes, this rule is based on sexism but sexism which can be quite accurate and in spirit I support it including in this case. But clearly the wordings and semantics need to be adjusted to take account for certain religious minorities. Perhaps a clause correcting for how a male student can have long hair if they prove they can keep it out of their face.