Ohio school suspends boy over Mohawk

Team Infidel

Team Infidel

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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."
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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.
 
It's been proven over and over again that apparently unless you're 18, you have no rights. Remember "Bong Hits for Jesus"?
 
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...
 
But even if it is, it's still odd. If there is nothing in the rule book that states that they can't have certain heir cuts, they can't do squat. I gotta side with TI on this one.
 
major liability said:
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.
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Remember, these are kindergardeners. Their average attention span is about 30 seconds anyway...
 
The Other Guy said:
Remember, these are kindergardeners. Their average attention span is about 30 seconds anyway...
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You are wrong. I have a Kindergarder. Trust me when I tell you this, they are at the age that they start having a personal identity. So, if you have a kindergarder, then you can chime in on your expertise.
 
Redneck. Major.

The kid doesn't think it looks cool, mommy and daddy told him it looks cool. I wonder what the parents look like.
 
I dunno about the law in the US, but here it says that parents must ensure that their children are educated, that's the law. So whether the school likes it or not the parents must obey the law which overrides any local ordinances. Tell the school to take it up with the Government.

As stupid as they are, and as far as I know, there is no law against having a Mohawk. It will be a novelty for a day and then forgotten, unless of course, if the school keeps dragging up the issue.

Petty rules give me the "Tom Tits".
 
Team Infidel said:
You are wrong. I have a Kindergarder. Trust me when I tell you this, they are at the age that they start having a personal identity. So, if you have a kindergarder, then you can chime in on your expertise.
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My Brother was in Kindergarden last year... his average attention span is about 30 seconds.

pixiedustboo said:
Redneck. Major.

The kid doesn't think it looks cool, mommy and daddy told him it looks cool. I wonder what the parents look like.
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Agreed.
 
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