School vs Massive Mohawk.

[Dogstile]

Did any of you read the article? He's agreed to wear it down at school, but the school has no regulations involving hair. This is the same shit as "Wearing coloured socks and underwear could be distracting" that my school tried to pull.

Ask yourself, if someone came in with that, sat at the back and got on with their work, would you be distracted by them for the entire lesson or would you go "that's pretty weird" and get on with whatever you were doing. I swear it's like people think that other humans have completely different reactions to them.

Oh, to the guy who said schools aren't a public place? Its required that you go to one and if you don't go and follow their rules on how you dress and act you get punished. Awesome, that sounds like a totally cool environment to be raised in. I can understand rules within reason but this really isn't within reason.

 

[SpAc3man]

My school had a pretty strict dress code in terms of uniform, shoes, piercings etc but they had nothing to do with restricting hair styles. The official policy was rather unknown until we had an assembly one week where the principal decided to tell us about how he used to get sent home all the time from school for having his hair too long. His personal experiences as a teenager at school led him to declare total freedom for students when it came to their hair and what they did to it.

 

[ChadSexington]

Up the punks, the kid's got the attitude down.

Anyway, if the school has no regulations against this I don't think they should be allowed to make him wear it down. If they had regulations regarding length/style/colour I'd be on their side but apparently they don't so the kid hasn't done anything wrong.

Well, other than it being pink. Seriously, a good toxic green would have looked better with his complexion. And it would have looked more badass.

Agreed, toxic green would have looked WAY better.

 

[chadachada123]

I highly doubt that his outfit, even with the mohawk, is the most distracting thing in that school, with the way teenage girls dress these days.

I think that he should be allowed to express himself. By forcing him to ditch the hair, it's creating MORE of a disturbance than if they had just let it slide, because he'll surely make a scene with whatever his next hair style or clothing design is just to push every boundary he can think of.

 

[Baldry]

I just don't understand how him having a mohawk is hurting anyone, it's not the school's just being dicks, let him do what he wants, it's his hair.

 

[felbot]

wow, humanity you suck, he wants to have his hair a certain way and people immediately flip out.

let him have his Mohawk, fucking conformists.

 

[dudagato]

Do i need to say anything else?

 

[Yopaz]

He could set the record at home and leave it at that. His hair probably gets in the way of hallway traffic in school and people's view of the chalkboard in class.

Pretty much my thought too. I love to think that your rights should be stopped where it interferes with other people's rights. 16 inches of hair pointing straight up would at best be a distraction and most likely an inconvenience for the surroundings. They did not ask him to cut it, simply to not wear it in spikes in school.

 

[In Search of Username]

Friend of mine got sent home for shaving his head for charity. No, seriously. I fucking hate that schools think they should control what kids look like. It's ridiculous and has absolutely nothing to do with the actual job of the school - to educate them.

 

[Denamic]

It's a distraction that's detrimental to other students' education?
And denying a kid's right to go to school, despite the fact that he never actually broke any rules, did nothing 'offensive', etc., isn't detrimental to his education?

Oh no! Someone's deviating from the accepted social norm! Somebody stop him before he inspires others to think outside the box!

He's hardly thinking outside the box. He's just spiking his hair up for gods sake.

OT: Meh, I can see both sides of the argument. If the school has a lax approach to dress codes then yea, they shouldn't really be saying anything. But at the end of the day schools do have the right to moderate dress sense. Fuck, we still had uniforms at my place. And lets be honest, I imagine hair that tall would get in the way a bit in a school setting.

Personally, I don't like spiked mohawks. Fins are so much cooler.

'The box' is normalcy.
Going for having the biggest spiked mohawk on the planet is something that extremely few people do. That's outside of 'the box' by definition.

 

[Starik20X6]

Oh no! Someone's deviating from the accepted social norm! Somebody stop him before he inspires others to think outside the box!

He's hardly thinking outside the box. He's just spiking his hair up for gods sake.

I was riffing on the 'slippery slope' argument, facetiously claiming that one kid's mohawk would inspire even more radical hair-doos, until kids are showing up to school with entire helicopters in their hair[footnote]EDIT: And that it would be somehow bad.[/footnote].

[sub]Awesome.[/sub]​

 

[MeChaNiZ3D]

It's not unreasonable to expect him not to have it spiked up, because that's a practical concern in the classroom. But they're not asking him to have it cut off, all he has to do is not spike it up. So I say fair enough. Ans as for why you shouldn't be able to express yourself-wait a second. Do schools in the US have uniforms? I'm guessing not? Every time I write something I second guess myself these days...

But anyway, I think you should be able to express yourself until it is a practical concern. Which a mohawk is, in a classroom.

 

[Angie7F]

I wouldn't be suprised if this is a private school, but public school should allow a bit of freedom. maybe...

 

[DugMachine]

Damn son! That's a fucking mohawk if there ever was one. Respect

Buuut really shouldn't spike it up if the school won't allow it.

 

[Tropicaz]

Given that the school didnt try and make him cut/change the hairs colour, merely asked him not to spike it to school makes the difference IMO, whereas they tried to reach a compromise and he tried to be a dick. I'm siding with the school, and in these sorts of things I rarely do.

 

[Calibanbutcher]

Yeah, gotta side with the school. Having a huge mohawk constantly moving right next / in fron of you is sure to be a distraction for other students.
A way to counteract this would be to force all girls to wear bikinis and all boys to work out to THE MAX and then wear speedos.
I assure you, no-one would bat an eye at the mohawk anymore.