Girl shaves head to support friend with cancer, gets barred from school

[Noomz]

http://kdvr.com/2014/03/24/girl-shav...d-from-school/


What I find most mystifying, is why some decision makers dig their heels in......only to cave, once the media (including social media) become involved and blow these stories up.

They just make themselves look foolish when they claim no exceptions, only to make an exception once the story becomes public. If they're not prepared to stand behind their decisions 100% once the media is involved, they've made the wrong initial decision.

Makes you wonder what the hell they were thinking of in the first place.

What freaking school has a bloody policy on girls not being allowed to have a shaved head? What kind of idiotic, disgusting, misogynistic bullshit is that motivated by?
I'm sorry for my choice of words, but this really deserves it. And that they then punish a girl for showing support to her friend sick in cancer is mindblowing. I know rules are rules but seriously, use some common bloody sense and have a bit of damned humanity you beurocratic monsters!

[Drayarr]

What a joke.
The rule to start with is hilariously out of touch with society.

I applaud and agree with what she did to support a friend with cancer, I would have done the same.

[Finnio]

Who the hell makes this rules... they lack logic and infringe upon basic human rights .

[Drayarr]

What freaking school has a bloody policy on girls not being allowed to have a shaved head? What kind of idiotic, disgusting, misogynistic bullshit is that motivated by?
I'm sorry for my choice of words, but this really deserves it. And that they then punish a girl for showing support to her friend sick in cancer is mindblowing. I know rules are rules but seriously, use some common bloody sense and have a bit of damned humanity you beurocratic monsters!

^ this.

I wish there was a like / rep function, I'd give you all mine.

My old school used to have a rule about guys not having long hair, until someone joined the school with long hair and point blank refused to have it cut as it was sexist to force him to have short hair

[Echelonl]

Next the cancer patient gets barred as well when she goes bald.

[Worgoblin]

I understand her reasoning, and I applaud her loyalty and compassion for her friend. However, rules are rules and they are there for a reason. You can't allow one person to break them and then deny others.

It makes me cringe when I hear people say "rules are rules". I imagine in Nazi Germany, that many people who had a hand in the holocaust would clear their conscience by chanting that very phrase. Gotta follow orders. *shudder*

And if the founders of the USA had lived by the credo "rules are rules", then they would never have had the balls to break away from England.

[petej0]

Rigidly applying rules with no thought to their spirit is lazy and narrow-minded.

While I agree..I cant help to think that applying rigid, zero tolerance type rules allow for administrators to exact punishment without appearing to play favorites. "Why does the football player only get a day suspension but the band member gets a week long suspension?"

[thurizas]

Unless this is an all girls school, which would then explain why they are only talking about the females dress code.

According to us news, Caprock is a co-educational school: "At Caprock Academy, the student body makeup is 47 percent male and 53 percent female, and the total minority enrollment is 12 percent. Caprock Academy is 1 of 11 high schools in the Charter School Institute."

[rhandric]

While I agree..I cant help to think that applying rigid, zero tolerance type rules allow for administrators to exact punishment without appearing to play favorites. "Why does the football player only get a day suspension but the band member gets a week long suspension?"

That's where that whole thinking thing comes in. Zero tolerance = zero thought, and needs to die a quick death. It won't, of course, but it needs to. I mean, do we really want people who don't think in charge of (in the case of schools) education?

[darkwarrior42]

Yeah, I'm British, so it's what I'm used to growing up with too. My school had both genders, but everyone wore a uniform (loved it)

I would have been miserable in a single-gender school... there were maybe two guys my age I enjoyed talking to in high school. The majority were idiots I wanted nothing to do with; the girls made for much more intelligent conversation.

As for this situation, the administration is unequivocally in the wrong. If they were going to make an exception, they should have done so immediately (or at least before this went national). If they weren't, then they shouldn't have caved to media. By flip-flopping, they demonstrate they care more about their rep than they do about principle or rules, and throw make every other decision seem arbitrary; they are now unable to take a firm position without everyone wondering "well, do they really mean that, or are they just going to cave?"

[Deleted]

What the hell went on at that school in the past to require a rule for females not shaving their heads? lol

As for skinheads, this isn`t the `70-`80s where you saw them all over the place. All of the girl gangs that are in the news of late, none of them are sporting shaved heads.
Hell, the only woman I know with a shaved head (& short mohican) is in her late sixties & not likely to riot ;p

As for the school, this was idiotic. I guess they would blame it as a distraction in the class, but that`d be as heading as bad as blaming the poor girl that had no choice but lose her hair.
A persons looks/attire et al does not stop them being capable of studying, whereas pressuring them or flat out booting them from school clearly would.

[Vizardlorde]

Oh, well does it show the boys dress codes? I can't seem to find it.

Probably no long hair, long nails(dirty), proper usage of uniform ( no unbuttoned shirts, baggy pants etc.) My friend went to a charter school and said they really had a stick up their ass when it came to appearance.

[damntree]

Oh, where's the great social outcry for men that are required to cut their hair and remove the piercings for a job? As long as both sexes have a standard for dress, hair, jewelry it doesn't matter if those standards are different. At least that's what the courts say.

[Xanjori]

Oh, where's the great social outcry for men that are required to cut their hair and remove the piercings for a job? As long as both sexes have a standard for dress, hair, jewelry it doesn't matter if those standards are different. At least that's what the courts say.

Also at the all boys school I went to you weren't allowed to shave your hair completely off.

[Sunseeker]

It's a stupid rule that enforces a sexist ideology that women with short hair aren't women.

Every place that has a women-specific dress code (like a lot of casinos) will enforce long hair styles.

[Adam Jensen]

It makes me cringe when I hear people say "rules are rules". I imagine in Nazi Germany, that many people who had a hand in the holocaust would clear their conscience by chanting that very phrase. Gotta follow orders. *shudder*

And if the founders of the USA had lived by the credo "rules are rules", then they would never have had the balls to break away from England.

"Rules are rules" is the reason a six year old is expelled from school for biting his poptart into the shape of a gun.

[Xanjori]

It's a stupid rule that enforces a sexist ideology that women with short hair aren't women.

Every place that has a women-specific dress code (like a lot of casinos) will enforce long hair styles.

Also at the all boys school I went to you weren't allowed to shave your hair completely off.

I disagree.

[Deleted]

I can find myself if a school wants to use a uniform, but I don't get why hairstyles would be an issue, piercings maybe (because it could be dangerous during gym)

[Burnick]

It's not really sexist. I understand why they would do it, was a fair share amount of times I was teasing boys at school, distracting them during classes etc. I was told off a fair share of times by teachers as well but I didn't listen. Such distractions would be removed at girl/boy only schools.

Unless you're a lesbian or homosexual.

[Adam Jensen]

It's a stupid rule that enforces a sexist ideology that women with short hair aren't women.

Every place that has a women-specific dress code (like a lot of casinos) will enforce long hair styles.

TBH never been a fan of short hairstyles on women, but its not up to a school, or any authority, or me, to dictate how someone wears their hair.

Unless its helicopter hair, helicopter hair is kinda stupid.