You’ve probably already read about the 4 year-old kid who got suspended from a Mesquite, TX school because his hair is too long.
I’m fully aware that Texas is one of the top 4 states for general asshattery (The other three being Missouri and Kansas, with Florida at a solid #1). Shit, I don’t get defensive when people say things like, “Well, this story happened in Texas. What do you expect?” When your governor puts people who think Jesus rode a dinosaur on the Board of Education and seriously considers a woman who wants to make dildos illegal for powerful state positions, it’s official: your state is retarded.
What amazes me about the kid getting suspended from school isn’t the fact that the kid was suspended. Hell, repressive dress codes are S.O.P. in Texas. What gets me is the reaction to the story at The Houston Chronicle. Here’s a few choice quotes from the comments on the article:
“Nubiangoddess” has this to say:
How is this even news? If they refuse to cut his hair then they can home school him. It’s either follow the rules and regulations or hit the road, period. Besides, who gives a 4yr old choices like that?
Eat a fat dick, bitch.
HJD puts in his or her .02 with:
That’s a 4 year old. It’s his parents that think it’s “cool”. If they can’t follow the dress code, they should find another school.
You know who else had dress codes, HJD? That’s right, the Nazis.
“PickyDilly” wants you to know:
Regardless if you agree with the policy or not, the parents are completely out of line by allowing their son to be suspended for fear that me might not like his short hair. Its past the point of being ridiculous how parents now days shield their kid from ever being hurt, emotionally or physically. No, in the real world, you CAN’T do what ever you want, you DON’T always win and you RARELY get your way. It really kills me that parents will let their kids wait until they graduate from college to figure this out, and then keep falling on their faces and can’t deal with life because they can’t adapt.
That’s right, you scrote-gobbling moron, parents should instead teach their children to blindly follow stupid rules.
“Percival” warns us:
Instead of worrying about hair length, schools should worry about gang tattoos. I walked through the halls of a school in Rosenberg and saw tons of kids sporting gang tats. NICE.
We’re talking about kinderfuckinggarten, asswipe. Incidentally, I culled these from the first page of comments. There’s over 10 pages of the same crap.
Mesquite Independent School District spokesman Ian Halperin gives the official skinny (ellipses in the original):
We expect students … to adhere to the code of conduct.
Furthermore, the school district’s web site states:
It has long been the philosophy of the Mesquite Independent School District that the public school system is responsible for the total development of each child enrolled within its schools.
This total development includes the training of students in social and moral standards, ethical conduct, good manners, and good grooming as well as the teaching of academic subjects.
What all these boot-licking authoritarian assholes are missing is that the 4 year-old has the moral and ethical high ground in this situation. You see, he’s growing his hair so that he can eventually cut it off and donate it to cancer patients.
So, in order to instill a sense of moral responsibility and good citizenship in a 4 year-old, the Mesquite ISD and the readers of the Houston Chronicle believe that the proper thing to do is to tell cancer patients to go pound sand.
Go ahead, insult Texas all you want… we deserve it.
At least we’re not Florida.
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