Thread: Girl Banned from School After Shaving Head to Support Friend with Cancer

Originally Posted by dex71

Knowing you....I would love to hear some storys. I bet you were a handful.

I just think the Administrator should have made the right call from the start....long before he sat an innocent little girl down, and sent her home. Parents could have been called and storys could have been checked. If nothing else, this coward could have made a stand, and would have had the entire country behind him, as well as his own school board who folded like a wet napkin at the first news report. If we tie the hands of the administrators to the point that they can't make a call on a hairstyle, why have them at all?

If I had to guess it took time because administrators know that every thing they do will be national news. Let her come to school, then what happens when the next kid wants to have a purple mohawk in honor of his skateboarding brother who got hit by a bus? Yes, purely hypothetical, but this is coming from someone who loved looking for cracks in the rules to take advantage of, and knows many people who were exactly the same. Does it suck for this girl? Yes, but I blame all the assholes like me that push the rules to the limits, not the admins who try to corral us.

Originally Posted by Guyver

The joke is on you smartass. I'm almost bald anyway.

Think of the children with no hair at all that are envious of your locks...

Originally Posted by CivilWars

My point being there is some kid somewhere with cancer that in some 7 degrees of Kevin Bacon way is connected to you, so you should shave your head to support them. It's the right thing to do after all. Same for dex and Guyver. Can't wait to see bald dex.

Just had mine cut. I don't have a hair that's over an inch long.....ahhhhh. I did mine in honor of all middle-aged assholes with male pattern baldness. I'm not there yet, but the hair in the middle of my head seems to be moving towards the coasts. If it gets much thinner, I will have to grow a pony-tail so I can cultivate that "bald guy with a ponytail in dark socks and sandles" look that drives the ladies wild.

Also, Civil..I've been bald before ...totally bald. Not a buzz cut. My hair was grunge style long in my 20's. My girlfriend at the time made the mistake of saying she wouldn't have went out with me if I had had short hair. So......

Originally Posted by deathgodusmc

Kids are different then adults. They respond to people they know with action and less i'll pray for you crap.

thats kinda my point we should encourage children instead of crush them so we can get out of this world of ambulance chasers and people who wont give you the Heimlich or see if your alright in a car crash cause your afraid of being sued

The linkbacks are terrible so can't find anything atm. Did the school know what it was for? The articles didn't even mention if the school suspended her, or how the school knew (since the only mention was the Mom saying she'd have to tell the girl she couldn't go the next day). Presumably the school found out before she went to class, at least judging by the information in the OP article, but doesn't go into it much.

Speaking of high school, at the end of middle school, I saw Ferris Bueller. My parents remarked that no one could pull something like that on them. I took it as a challenge. Once I had my car (summer before the 10th grade), I missed the max amount of days I could each semester (I'd get "sick" at school.) without having to bring in a Doctor's note. It got easier when I was at my senior high. The campus was quite large for a high school (would take 6 minutes to walk from one side to the other). I'd just run from where my classes were to the nurses office after complaining about feeling sick to a teacher.

Let's support all the kids who style their hair to support people with cancer, right? This isn't a distraction or violation of school policy, right?

https://shine.yahoo.com/parenting/th...174432152.html

I have no problem with shaved heads, mohawks, or even artificial hair coloring as I have had all 3 in my years, but why even bother having any rules if we are just going to say screw them any time someone posts on FB that they don't like them? My step-dad has prostate cancer. Does that mean I should be allowed to paint my ass blue and walk around in public in assless chaps in support of him?

if your dad was a kid... and was going to be stigmatized because his therapy required his ass to be blue and wear assless chaps to school... thus embarassing him and potentially causing some serious psychological scarring... sure. Support the shit out of him by showing you aren't afraid to do it as well.

And watch it... I'll photoshop you doing just that. You know I can do it.