>>>>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34818450/ns/us_news-education/?GT1=43001
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>>>>I put this on the parents - get the kid to a SuperCuts and teach him to spike his hair.
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>>>Since school is compulsary until age 16, and it's a public school (as far as I can tell), I'm with the parents. It doesn't hurt him or anyone else to have long hair. I can understand a policy of requiring hair below the collar to be pulled back or braided, but cutting is ridiculous. Our schools have dress codes, but many young men have long hair. I say, As long as the boy wishes it, Fight, fight, fight! :o) I guess that while he is missing out on the socialization aspect of school life, he is gaining by one-on-one instruction. I'd question whether or not that teacher is qualified to teach all subjects (a problem with many high school in-school suspensions) but at that age, probably so.
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>>Hello 60s all over again.
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>I suppose you'd be happier if we all still lived in the 50's??

Not me. I was just trying to say, "Here we go again with this long hair phobia nonsense." If I recall correctly, and having been a teen in at the beginning of the 60s and early 20s at the end, it's entirely possible that my memory of that period is not all it should be, nobody died because somebody else had long hair.