Kids with Mohawks - Victims of Adults with Low Self Esteem

Ah yes, yet another kid has been kicked out of the classroom for being "disruptive" by doing nothing more than having an individual spirit and a mohawk. At least this time he was 2 years older than the 4 year old they booted in another school.

He was warned several times that if he did not "conform" then he would not be "educated" with his classmates. When did the low self-esteem, individuals-are-bad mindset of a brainwashed robot "adult" come into a position to say who they would educate and who they would not. Fact is, kids who they will not be able to educate beyond rote memorization, won't just be the one with the mohawk, it will be all children victimized by the drudgery of their monotoned voices and thinking patterns.

Pulled from this link http://www.columbusdispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2008/02/27/mohawk.html?sid=101

Mohawk haircut gets Ohio kindergartner suspended from school
Wednesday, February 27, 2008 5:49 AM

Associated Press
Bryan Ruda, 6, displays his haircut while playing in his Parma, Ohio, home.
PEGGY TURBETT | THE PLAIN DEALER
Bryan Ruda, 6, displays his haircut while playing in his Parma, Ohio, home.
PARMA, Ohio—A kindergarten student with a freshly spiked Mohawk has been suspended from school.

Michelle Barile, the mother of 6-year-old Bryan Ruda, said nothing in the Parma Community School handbook prohibits the haircut, characterized by closely shaved sides with a strip of prominent hair on top. The school said the hair was a distraction for other students.

"I understand they have a dress code. I understand he has a uniform. But this is total discrimination," she told The Plain Dealer. "They can't tell me how I can cut his hair."

An administrator at the suburban Cleveland charter school first warned Barile last fall that the haircut wasn't acceptable. The school later sent another warning to her reiterating the ban.

Mohawks violate the school's policy on being properly groomed, school Principal Linda Geyer said. Also, the school district's dress code allows school officials to forbid anything that interferes with the conduct of education.

Ruda's hair became a disruption last week when Ruda arrived freshly shorn, Geyer said. Administrators called Barile on Friday telling her to pick Ruda up from school.

"This was his third infraction," Geyer said yesterday. "We felt that we were being extremely patient."

Rather than request a hearing to appeal the suspension, Barile said she'll enroll him at another school. Changing the hairstyle is not an option, she said.

"It's something that he really likes," Barile said. "When people hear Mohawk, they think it's long, it's spiked, it's crazy looking, and it's really not."

Comment by Nauty Cooper on December 17, 2009 at 12:10pm: i know the problem all too well, as i'm sure alot of you do. all through school i kept my hair rather normal. i just wore it long and loose..au natural, but i still got alot of shit. stupid shit too. i would get pulled out of class almost every other day because whatever t-shirt i was wearing was deemed "distracting". strange logos mostly..once i was even made to change into a school gym t-shirt because i was wearing a shirt with an anitomical rendering of a skeleton, labeled with all it's latin parts. now what i always wanted to know was to whom it was distracting. it never seemed that the other kids noticed me, let alone the rather plain clothes i wore. nevertheless they seemed to offend the teachers' sensibilities. on one occasion, after being lectured about being "a walking distraction" i retorted with "well maybe you shouldn't accept students that are dumb enough to let a t-shirt logo stop them from their school work". it's something that we've all dealt with in the past or present, and something that we will continue having to deal with. the important thing is to always remain integral

Comment by Dylan Barrett on January 2, 2010 at 12:36pm: This is fucking bullshit! I can understand how schools want students to wear a uniform, but if there is nothing in the dress code addressing hairstyles, then you can not punish someone for breaking a rule that doesn't exist.

AND... In the U.S. Supreme Court case of Tinker v. Des Moines (1969) the following was said by Justice Fortas, speaking for the majority of judges on the board,". . . In the absence of a specific showing of constitutionally valid reasons to regulate their speech, students are entitled to freedom of expression of their views."

This case was originally brought to court when three students were wearing armbands to school with peace signs, protesting the Vietnam war.

If the school is that hell bent on conformity, then the child would be better off in a different school.

Comment by Aidan Piper on January 8, 2010 at 9:25pm: My school has a uniform (which i HATE) and I get dirty looks from the administration for my hair, but they don't make me put it down. It's only about 3.5 inches anyways.

Comment by Alex! on January 10, 2010 at 6:17pm: I've been fighting my VP all year long, and she still bitches at me. I'm switching schools next semester anyway and my mom is so fed up with all the shit she's just guna come bitch at my principal for discrimination and shit. She's pissed cuz they call her up when I am trying to be myself (NOT hurting anyone, if I am correct) but she doesn't even get a note home when I was failing math. Now THAT is bullshit.

Comment by FuNKaDeLiK on January 16, 2010 at 6:33pm: "We are not content with negative obedience, nor even with the most abject submission. When finally you surrender to us, it must be of your own free will. We do not destroy the heretic because he resists us; so long as he resists us we never destroy him. We convert him, we capture his inner mind, we reshape him. We burn all evil and all illusion out of him; we bring him over to our side, not in appearance, but genuinely, heart and soul. We make him one of ourselves before we kill him. It is intolerable to us that an erroneous thought should exist anywhere in the world, however secret and powerless it may be. Even in the instance of death we cannot permit any deviation . . . we make the brain perfect before we blow it out." - 1984

Comment by jarrod on January 24, 2010 at 4:31pm: this is just pure ignorance, because someone styles their hair differently than other students means they have to conform? luckily for me i don't have those problems, but i also don't have a mohawk anymore but there is students with mohawks at my school and our school doesn't care. but i do look a little ridiculous i will admit, with my manson like make-up and contacts they still dont care, but i do have to put up with shit from other students calling me "faggot" and "freak" all the the time and talking crap behind my back, but it's not much of an insult because they do it behind my back or as they walk by me, because you know picking on people who are way smaller than you and who are handicap is real hardcore...

Comment by alex clark on February 5, 2010 at 10:18am: this is laaaammmeee my mohawk is 14 inches and i only do it in liberty spikes and i cant wear it in skool exept on homecome and stuff like that and in my skool we can dye our hair any color i faught the skool board when my hair was pink green blue and red and i won so its pretty sweet but this is just stupid