Mohawks are Banned?

[William_C]

Kindergartner suspended for Mohawk haircut

Mother refuses to alter boy's spiked hair, will enroll him at another school

PARMA, Ohio - A kindergarten student with a freshly spiked Mohawk has been suspended from school.
Michelle Barile, the mother of 6-year-old Bryan Ruda, said nothing in the Parma Community School handbook prohibits the haircut, characterized by closely shaved sides with a strip of prominent hair on top. The school said the hair was a distraction for other students.
"I understand they have a dress code. I understand he has a uniform. But this is total discrimination," she said. "They can't tell me how I can cut his hair."


An administrator at the suburban Cleveland charter school first warned Barile last fall that the haircut wasn't acceptable. The school later sent another warning to her reiterating the ban.
Mohawks violate the school's policy on being properly groomed, school Principal Linda Geyer said. Also, the school district's dress code allows school officials to forbid anything that interferes with the conduct of education.
Ruda's hair became a disruption last week when Ruda arrived freshly shorn, Geyer said. Administrators called Barile on Friday telling her to pick Ruda up from school.
"This was his third infraction," Geyer said Tuesday. "We felt that we were being extremely patient."



Rather than request a hearing to appeal the suspension, Barile said she'll enroll him at another school. Changing the hairstyle is not an option, she said.
"It's something that he really likes," Barile said. "When people hear Mohawk, they think it's long, it's spiked, it's crazy looking, and it's really not."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23369157/?Gt1=10856

 

[Colossal Spoons]

I object!

 

[terry78]

Well, I can see how kindergarteners will look at something like that and not pay attention in class at first. But they would get used to it.

 

[Logan's Runt]

Oi oi oi, anarchy in the UK!

 

[Showtime]

You are so screwed Spoons.

 

[Obi-Ron]

An administrator at the suburban Cleveland charter school first warned Barile last fall that the haircut wasn't acceptable.

Well, there are always real schools...

 

[Wilhelm-Scream]

Well, I can see how kindergarteners will look at something like that and not pay attention in class at first. But they would get used to it.

They would do that with kids who have those giant purple birth marks on their faces.
We should ban kids with birth marks.


Welcome to Asylum Earth, where, if you don't slice off your keratinized protein fibers the same way we do, you are a bad person.

 

[The Lizard]

I guess it depends on the style, but when I see this kid with a mohawk, my first thought is "redneck" instead of "punk".

 

[Showtime]

All the students should cut their hair into mowhawks and stand up and say...

"I'm Bryan."

"I'm Bryan"​

"I'm Bryan."​

"I'm Bryan."​

"I'm Bryan."

"I'm Bryan"​

"I'm Bryan."​

"I'm Bryan."​

 

[Obi-Ron]

All the students should cut their hair into mowhawks and stand up and say...

"I'm Bryan."

"I'm Bryan"​

"I'm Bryan."​

"I'm Bryan."​

"I'm Bryan."

"I'm Bryan"​

"I'm Bryan."​

"I'm Bryan."​

"I'm Bryan, and so is my wife!"

 

[Malice]

Is it a private school or public school

 

[Wilhelm-Scream]

Is it a private school or public school

Charter schools are publicly funded elementary or secondary schools in the United States that have been freed from some of the rules, regulations, and statutes that apply to other public schools in exchange for some type of accountability for producing certain results, which are set forth in each school's charter.

 

[amazingfantasy15]

While I don't believe a certain hairstyle should be banned from school. The mom shouldn't have been so stubburn, the kid is 6 years old, is he that image concious that he'd object to the different hairstyle. Seems like the mom's rebellion is costing her kid an education.

 

[bullets]

screw that! let the kid have a mohawk and choose his own name . the schools are teaching kids not to have an identity.

 

[PemLam]

Principal - "You can't have that type of haircut here, cut it off or you're suspended"

Mom - "This is crap but my son shouldn't be punished for my lack of fashion sense, so I'll get rid of it."

Principal - "Thank you for getting rid of the mohawk, but now he looks like a skinhead...racism will not be tolerated, he's expelled."

 

[William_C]

Principal - "You can't have that type of haircut here, cut it off or you're suspended"

Mom - "This is crap but my son shouldn't be punished for my lack of fashion sense, so I'll get rid of it."

Principal - "Thank you for getting rid of the mohawk, but now he looks like a skinhead...racism will not be tolerated, he's expelled."

its just one thing after another

 

[Captain Planet!]

Who the french gives a kindergartner a mohawk?

 

[Wilhelm-Scream]

Michelle Barile

 

[terry78]

 

[Bubonic]

Who the french gives a kindergartner a mohawk?

Thats the ridiculous thing though... It isn't like in highschool when kids are trying to find a way to express themselves through choices they make on their own, but this idiot mom is choosing to make a spectacle of her child for her own selfish reasons.
A kid isn't a goddamned doll you do whatever you want to, although a little anticonformity is healthy, the kid shouldn't be set on a path not of his own choosing.

 

[Wilhelm-Scream]

A kid isn't a goddamned doll you do whatever you want to, although a little anticonformity is healthy, the kid shouldn't be set on a path not of his own choosing.

Uh


WHAT?!


That's exactly what a kid is.
People have kids, and then dress them in the clothes they choose for them, and give them the hair cuts they choose for them, and punish them when they don't obey.
There isn't a kid with parents who isn't set on a path he didn't choose.
The parents instill THEIR values, THEIR religion, THEIR choice of entertainment, THEIR fashion sense, THEIR genes....almost everything.


What are you talking about?
It's MOST of the parents of MOST of the kids at this school who decided that NOT having mohawks would be the norm.
They're the ones who are making a spectacle of the kid, not his mom.

 

[Colossal Spoons]

You are so screwed Spoons.

Seriously, hope I never have to repeat kindergarten for some reason

 

[X-Chick]

How ridiculous. He's just a kid who likes having a mohawk. Why the hell should he have to change it? If it was my kid, I wouldn't make him change it either. The school administrator is being a total Nazi.

I love the excuse he used about it distracting the other kids. They are 5-6, anything will distract them.

 

[spideyboy_1111]

i don't think that in this day and age, this should be a problem at all, as long as the kid isn't making a spectacle out of himself jumping off desks and pretending he's sid vicious, i don't see a problem. this is 2008 people, not 1994

 

[Bubonic]

Uh


WHAT?!


That's exactly what a kid is.
People have kids, and then dress them in the clothes they choose for them, and give them the hair cuts they choose for them, and punish them when they don't obey.
There isn't a kid with parents who isn't set on a path he didn't choose.
The parents instill THEIR values, THEIR religion, THEIR choice of entertainment, THEIR fashion sense, THEIR genes....almost everything.


What are you talking about?
It's MOST of the parents of MOST of the kids at this school who decided that NOT having mohawks would be the norm.
They're the ones who are making a spectacle of the kid, not his mom.

Maybe I should of put, a kid shouldn't be a goddamned doll...
Whatever, most people shouldn't be aloud to have a kid, as if it ain't already hard enough to fit in.

I remember this mom and dad who proudly showed me the kids birth certificate to prove they'd called it "juggalo wicked ______" , I just think there should be some moderation.

Sure, the other parents are responsible for making a kid with a mohawk seem like a spectacle, but that's just it, a parent should realize this will happen and not throw the kid to the lions like that.