You are right, he does look like Danny. Danny was about 4 years old. He wasn't stuck in some government school. His parents kept him with them in a possessed hotel.
Posted on 01/15/2010 8:47:40 AM PST by JoeProBono
MESQUITE, Texas, Jan. 14 (UPI) -- The parents of a Texas 4-year-old whose hair was declared a violation of school dress code said they may remove him from the school.
Ian Halprin, a spokesman for Mesquite Independent School District, said Wednesday Taylor Pugh -- who has been receiving one-on-one instruction in the Floyd Elementary School library since his hair was declared a violation of district dress code late last year -- could be placed in in-school suspension or in the school office and lose his individual instruction as early as next week, The Dallas Morning News reported Thursday.
The boy's parents, Delton Pugh and Elizabeth Taylor, said in response they may simply keep the boy home from his pre-kindergarten class. They said they have no intention of cutting the boy's hair.
District dress code guidelines do not allow for boys to wear hair long enough to reach past their shirt collars.
"If he's not supervised, if he's not learning, there's no reason to leave him there," the boy's mother said.
The parents said Taylor can't wear his hair in braids, a compromise offered by the district, because it hurts his scalp.
Schools have the right to write rules of appearance and conduct that govern within their walls. Students simply do not have full free-speech or free-expression rights while at school.
It is not “statism” to require kids to follow rules.
SnakeDoc
Well read their comments.
Evidently, long hair makes him gay.
like that faggot white trash Jesus, evidently. That is their insinuation by the way, not yours or mine.
And they will likely whine about this post for pointing out that what they are posting can not be true without this also being true.
The school has a set of standards that everyone must comply. If they do away the standards for him, then everything goes out the window. There’s no law saying he has to go to a government school. He’s only 4 anyway. And when he gets older, TX is really easy for those that wish to homeschool. I don’t like some rules either, but I either comply or move on. I don’t make a whole district change its policy to suit me.
With all due respect, would you feel the same way if the 4-year-old were sent home for wearing a shirt with a Bible verse on it?
So you are comparing a elite branch of the military to a public elementary school?
At this time, all our heroes in Marine Corps volunteer to join and know agree to follow a dress/grooming code. Even if they were drafted, the military has always had a different set of rules, out of necessity.
Enforcing military discipline on ordinary civilians is pretty much martial law.
Here’s the school’s dress code. They don’t allow shirts with writing on it either:
http://www.mesquiteisd.org/students/policies/standarddresspolicy.asp
Dress code guidelines is not a suggestion it’s a rule,follow it.
Or an embroideres Cross.
Or a Star of David?
It’s only offensive when other people do it.
Nice facial hardware, "Dad!"
Agreed!
1970 S.Florida Little League playoffs all players had to have hair no longer than collar in back. My son who was also a state champion Motorcrosser was told cut hair or not play. His hair was deemed to be 2” longer than allowed. After the first two games he cut his hair to required length and was allowed to play. His following games were played against teams that had players,coaches and umpires with longer hair than his had been.
“Some animals are more equal than.......”
Today his hair never gets more than 1/4” long! Today my second sons hair like most of the other boys at his school have long hair(some shoulder length).
One must remember,some people like Red Cars others like Black trucks!! To each his own and Screw the rest.
I don’t know why the district has a rule like that. They can just require everyone, boys and girls, to keep their hair out of the way, for the purpose of safety and attentiveness in class.
We have one kid at my son’s elementary school whose father is Sikh. No haircut, and he’s not at the age to use the turban, I guess. He has a ponytail down to his elbows and his life goes on, just like the other boys.
But really, these parents aren’t going to want public school for their kids because of all the rules. They are rebels and maybe they should find a free-thinking private school or homeschool.
“The parents of a four-year-old boy disciplined for having long hair have rejected a compromise from a Texas school board that agreed to adjust its grooming policy.
The impasse means pre-kindergartner Taylor Pugh will remain in in-school suspension, sitting alone with a teacher’s aide in a library. He has been sequestered from classmates at Floyd Elementary School in Mesquite, a Dallas suburb, since late November.
After a closed-door meeting Monday, the Mesquite school board decided the boy could wear his hair in tight braids but keep it no longer than his ears. But his parents say the adjustment isn’t enough for Taylor, who wears his hair long, covering his earlobes and shirt collar.
His mother, Elizabeth Taylor, said she’ll pull back Taylor’s hair in a ponytail, acknowledging the style will keep him suspended.
“If I braid his hair, his scalp will bleed and his hair will break,” Elizabeth Taylor said after the meeting.
According to the district dress code, boys’ hair must be kept out of the eyes and cannot extend below the bottom of earlobes or over the collar of a dress shirt. Fads in hairstyles “designed to attract attention to the individual or to disrupt the orderly conduct of the classroom or campus is not permitted,” the policy states.
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 website, 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.”
Ms. Taylor said her fight is not over. She and her husband are considering taking the district to court or appealing to the State Board of Education.
“I know that there are a whole set of steps we can take,” she said.
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Is enforcing any discipline “martial law”? If not, then why should your standard be “the standard”?
The spirit of anarchy seems to be running deep nowadays. As Dennis Prager says, “Since the 70s, men have been taught to be concerned about ‘their rights’ instead of ‘their responsibility to take care of someone’ and it has lead to selfish boy men.”
sure looks like he is following a fine example studs and tattoos shoving your opinion through a four year old?? someone needs to taken behind the barn for a good whoopin’ looks like the gene pool needs to stop here
You are right, he does look like Danny. Danny was about 4 years old. He wasn't stuck in some government school. His parents kept him with them in a possessed hotel.
I agree that the parents are rather poor “poster children”. That does not change the fact that they are 100% right. He’s THEIR kid not the gubmint’s.
Should there be restrictions on hair length for adults as well? Why not put the same code in effect for adults who want to visit the local DMV, city park, or other goverment facility paid for by their tax dollars?
Would you be OK with a dress code that required all the boys to have hair as long as this boy’s? What if a bunch of libs on the school board decided that short hair was too militaristic or conservative and forced your son to grow his hair long?
Does this kid have some kind of odd scalp disease or something? This is ridiculous! I wore two tails, braided, all through grammar school, never once did it make my scalp bleed and contrary to this dingy woman, the braiding didn't break my hair but allowed it to be stronger because it wasn't loose and tangling all the time.
One of the best Scouts in our 80-Scout BSA Troop wears a ponytail and gets his hair cut every two years by an organization that uses the hair for wigs for chemo patients.
Nobody teases him, either.
That's what these parents should do. I don't know if they have to pay a fee to have a 4 year old in school in this district, but if not, maybe they are using it as "free" daycare.
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