Well, it should be. If boys are not permitted to have long hair, then we should be able to impose any restriction on appearance and dress that we want to.
Long Hair not permitted on boys?
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Well, it should be. If boys are not permitted to have long hair, then we should be able to impose any restriction on appearance and dress that we want to.
I thought there were still schools in this country that had uniforms, but I dunno. I remember in grade nine that we had to wear dress pants, girls wor skirts, and either a dress shir or sweater. For assemblies we had to wear a shirt, tie and jacket. By the time I got to grade 12 even the teachers were wearing jeans, (but it took me 8 years to get there :lol
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Well, first of all, that's taking it to an extreme. You can do that with anything and make it look bad. I think "reasonable" works. Sure, not everyone agrees with all the rules all the time, but somewhere there has to be a happy medium. Of course, that would require some degree of compromise.
If you take the example of not following the rules to an extreme, why shouldn't gun lovers be allowed to carry a gun into a shopping mall? After all, they might disagree with those 'stupid' rules about guns. Or, why shouldn't I be allowed to seat my dog at a table in a restaurant? That rule might be considered to be 'stupid' too.
I just think that if one doesn't agree with a particular rule, there is a way to go about trying to get it changed. Just refusing to follow it could lead to bigger problems. And, teaching a young child that it's OK to pick and choose which rules to follow could do more harm than good, in the long haul.
Yeah, even in my day we had to walk a block and a half to the pub, so that only allowed us time to quaff two ales before band class because we couldn't bring them back to school. I'm serious, and it was legal. And band class actually sounded better.;-)
It doesn't matter what they mean, it matters if his skin is sensitive or not. No matter what you do, styling hair under tension the same way, day after day, can create pressure sores on sensitive skin.
"We" being society in general, right? I think we have a couple in place already...isn't there some rule against public nudity?
So would wearing it down the way he wants to wear it.
It just seems like such a ridiculous thing to expect boy/girl hair style standards in this day and age.
I tried the freedom of religion thing in 1969 ... to which my parents countered with:
A/ Having known the claimant, thus his religion, since birth, we believe any Faith restrictions on the cutting of hair would be, at best, a religion of convenience.
B/ This family is not a democracy.
C/ You aren't old enough to vote anyhow....
case closed....
I practice the Cree spirituality. Does that mean I can have my son wear his hair long too? This whole incident is ludicrous.
I figure it's like a lot of other crap today: Some lawyer's going to make money....
Ha, ha...mine had a somewhat shorter version, but same idea, same message. :smile:
When I was old and fast enough to out run my dad: He said, "When are you going to get a hair cut?" I rubbed his bald spot and said, "Whatsa matta? You jealous?" and ran like hell.
I remember 20 years ago the Singapore dictator was very much against long hair for men. While long hair was not punishable by lashes (which seems tot be the standard punishment in Singapore), they did enact some sanctions. Singapore Parliament enacted laws banning long hair in schools. Parliament also decreed that men with long hair will not be served in government offices and must be served last in private businesses.
Singapore being a dictatorship (it is a one party state), they were able to do that. At least that was the policy around 1980, I don’t know if the current dictator is also against long hair.
As to the story here, it is important to remember that this is Texas; anything can happen in Texas, it is the heart of the Bible Belt. This is the same Texas where gays used to be imprisoned for consensual sex acts, up until a few years ago. It stopped only because Supreme Court declared the Texas Sodomy law unconstitutional. Failing that, Texas would still be imprisoning gays.
So what is happening is in keeping with the reputation of Texas.
Singapore being a dictatorship (it is a one party state), they were able to do that. At least that was the policy around 1980, I don’t know if the current dictator is also against long hair.
As to the story here, it is important to remember that this is Texas; anything can happen in Texas, it is the heart of the Bible Belt. This is the same Texas where gays used to be imprisoned for consensual sex acts, up until a few years ago. It stopped only because Supreme Court declared the Texas Sodomy law unconstitutional. Failing that, Texas would still be imprisoning gays.
So what is happening is in keeping with the reputation of Texas.
It's the broken window policy; it worked wonders in New York City and if the parents don't like the rules, too bad.
Walter, the broken window theory is not sound. Criminologists have increasingly found no empirical support for this theory as previous studies have been re-analyzed and new investigations conducted. It is after all a fallacy to link correlations to causality.