Posted on 03/30/2006 7:39:35 AM PST by WestTexasWend
TULIA (TX) - Mohawks and education apparently don't mix at a Tulia elementary school.
Highland Elementary School Principal Johnny Lara sent first-grader Dallas Saenz, 7, home after he showed up at school the day before spring break sporting a freshly cut, spiked mohawk.
The first day after spring break, Dallas reluctantly combed down his mohawk.
"They laughed at me," he said.
His parents allowed him to return to school the next day with the spiked mohawk, which landed Dallas back in Lara's office. Lara ordered him home, and Tulia Supt. Ken Miller intervened, saying Dallas could return to school when he had an acceptable hairdo.
"If it's no distraction, it's no problem," Miller said.
Dallas has not returned to school since he was sent home March 21 because his mother, Toni Ramirez, said she understood that he could not return to school until his hair had grown out.
Dallas' parents said they have received two citations in the mail with $300 fines each for "disrupting classes." The school district could file truancy charges against them, and if Dallas misses more than 21 days, he could be held back a grade, they said.
But Ramirez and husband Ricky Saenz are willing to face all of that to protect their children's rights to express themselves through the way they dress, they said. They don't want their children to worry about what everyone else thinks, they said.
"Everybody's different," Ramirez said. "Our children show their different personalities."
Miller said the solution is easy for Dallas' parents. Tulia's dress code states: "Hair should be neat, clean and well-groomed. Style or color should not be extreme to the point of creating a distraction."
"We have to ensure we have a proper learning environment and that nothing takes away from that," Miller said. "Anything that distracts students from their learning is inappropriate."
Child's pic at the link.
Mohawks, baggy pants, what is my state coming to? Influence of the liberal democrat illegal gangs?
> Just to be different, I shaved MY head, like 'Pac...
Ain't nothin' different about that now...
No. They are trying to train the next generation of serfs.
Llano Estacado PING
My children wouldn't wear mohawks without their dad beating the crap out of them. I seriously question the judgement of the parents.
That said, this sounds like more of public screwls forcing their way in to be surrogate parents.
2pak was 4 short of a six pack.
That pic is misleading, first look through I thought that's what the kid's hair looked like. It's not even close to that, and you picture doesn't do anything to provide for a fair discussion.
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Very small schools have always had stricter dress codes than the larger ones. Having lived in West Texas and volunteered in a few schools, I can say a mohawk on an elementary age child would be a huge distraction. And that age does not need any added distraction.
In some fairness to Revere, engraving black features was hard and perhaps beyond his skill.
I've collected some wood cuts and unless the engraver was very skilled a black person looked like a blob (no facial features) or a had grotesque exagerated features.
That said, Revere was a great silversmith and a freemason, and he should have done/known better, or at least tried.
Who? Makaveli tha Don, the Black James Dean?
Actually, he did have a powerful talent. There's no denying his bravura performances in "Juice", "Above The Rim", and "Poetic Justice" are magnetic. His virtuoso lyrics and smooth baritone told tales of violence in the ghetto that were unstintingly honest.
He is also a supreme object lesson to the many young Black males who emulate(d) him....
Those who LIVE by the gun DIE by the gun....i.e. Don't let this happen to you.
And yes, it was such a waste.
I think the school caused more of a disturbance by their actions.
Of course, when I was in jr high, and a girlfriend and I dyed our hair hotpink and cut arm holes in hefty bags and wore those as shirts, they sent us home also.
If the school had left him alone, the classmates would have been over this in oh, a day or so.
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