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LEHIGH ACRES, Fla., Jan. 13 (UPI) -- The parents of a Florida middle school student said a school counselor shaved their son's head to get rid of his Miami Heat-inspired haircut.
The family of Danny Valdes, 11, said stepfather Arnaldo Fernandez, owner of Cutting Edge Barbershop, gave Danny a haircut in honor of attending his first Miami Heat game at the end of December and the style included the team's logo, area code and skyline being cut into his hair, WZVN-TV, Naples, reported Monday.
Well they need to sue the school district for millions.
The school has no right to deprive that child of his right to wear his hair however he wants.
Tolerance and fairness for everyone, regardless..right ?
Dress codes stifle critical thinking and innovation and creativity.
11 year olds should be able to express themselves however they want especially if it's the parents that condone and pay for it. Everyone else in school needs to just put up with it.
This is the way society is trending so why are we constantly fighting it ?
Give in and let people do whatever they want.
Well they need to sue the school district for millions.
The school has no right to deprive that child of his right to wear his hair however he wants.
Tolerance and fairness for everyone, regardless..right ?
Dress codes stifle critical thinking and innovation and creativity.
11 year olds should be able to express themselves however they want especially if it's the parents that condone and pay for it. Everyone else in school needs to just put up with it.
This is the way society is trending so why are we constantly fighting it ?
Give in and let people do whatever they want.
I have absolutely no problems with dress codes. Where the school and the councilor crossed the line was putting their hands on the child in order to forcibly shave his head. If they had a problem with his haircut and felt that it was disruptive or otherwise inappropriate, then the only appropriate response would be to send the child home until the matter could be resolved one way or the other.
The parents should sue the school for millions for assault and battery and lock up the councilor as a child molester.
I'm not saying I know precisely what should have been done, but this is the first time in my life I've heard of a school counselor cutting hair. Perhaps hair should be considered personal property & forced haircut by stranger might be considered theft, inappropriate touching, assault.
The students too distracted to do their work? Why don't they poll the others in the classroom to find out if the hair was preventing them from learning? And I hate to think of what they teach in a presumably public school that says student individuality is wrong, as if they were in the military.
I may have to go back to the article & see if it says if the kid is white, black, Hispanic, or? Not sure if race was any factor?
I went to high school the last year of the dress code. Next year student refuses to cut hair, takes school district to court. They had in their defense a professional opinion the boy was not mentally ill. They beat the district & he could return to school, hair intact.
It seems down south, things change slower, if they ever do. I read about a 4 year old who got kicked out of school for hair being too long. Went viral on net, school said he could return with hair, as long as he stayed away from friends. Finally, school said come back, hair & friends OK. Best wishes.
Well they need to sue the school district for millions.
The school has no right to deprive that child of his right to wear his hair however he wants.
Tolerance and fairness for everyone, regardless..right ?
Dress codes stifle critical thinking and innovation and creativity.
11 year olds should be able to express themselves however they want especially if it's the parents that condone and pay for it. Everyone else in school needs to just put up with it.
This is the way society is trending so why are we constantly fighting it ?
Give in and let people do whatever they want.
The article states that the school called the father (a barber) who said that he would cut the boy's hair after school that same day. However, the school counselor decided that s/he had been given permission to cut the kid's hair.
The issue is not the dress code; the father accepted that. The issue is that the school counselor overstepped his/her bounds.
Well they need to sue the school district for millions.
The school has no right to deprive that child of his right to wear his hair however he wants.
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Uh, I don't know about that ... but a suspension for the school "administrator" is probably appropriate.
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