this is just ridiculous. so much for freedom of expression

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."

Just because he likes it doesn't mean he has to keep it.

i just don't think it is fair

I think the same about any holes in jeans. Must be covered at my school. And my school's computers all have a set background that can't be changed.

Maybe it's because I think mohawks look stupid... I dunno.

stupid to you, but not the kid.... it is a rights issue.

It's been proven over and over again that apparently unless you're 18, you have no rights. Remember "Bong Hits for Jesus"?

fine, but Bong Hits for Jesus was the use of an illegal substance.... this is a damn haircut...

but he never used illegal substances... it was about a poster.

This makes no sense to me. Those other kids must have ADHD if they're being consistently distracted by a simple mohawk. My cousin had one for like 3 years when he was in middle school, not even spiked or colored, just a mohawk like the native Americans the style is named after would've had. I don't get how it could be considered not being properly groomed, unless you never shower and you have lice.

Wouldn't the world be a boring place if we all looked and dressed the same?

Is this a private school? Because that's the way it sounds. If it is or isn't here is my opinion of it.

If they are going to a public school then they have the right to do anything they want to do with their hair. The public school system only has a right to step in IF what they are doing is harming themselves or somebody else. They don't have a right to tell another human being what they can and cannot do.

If they enlisted in a private school and knew what the school expects...then they have no right to get mad about this. They signed up for it. Everybody knows that private schools are more strict. If they don't like the rules...then leave. It's a private school what do they expect...