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RE: cancer survivor suspended for wanting to donate - 1/30/2012 10:16:05 PM

DarqueMirror

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I dont know the objection the boy has to the compromise. Looking at his photo, his hair isnt long enough to pull back... so how does he keep it off the collar?

When I was his age, my hair was half that length and I kept it pulled back with no issues at all. He can use gel, mouse, and even brushes and combs. It's really not that difficult. He and his mommy are just whining to the press for attention.

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RE: cancer survivor suspended for wanting to donate - 1/31/2012 1:44:42 AM

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As a survivor of the '60s (who didn't do enough drugs to forget it) I'm reading this with my mouth open. Where did the last half century go? Not only there are still schools where long hair on boys is a major issue, but there are still people who get fired up and insist that nothing, you hear, nothing could be more important than this young lout GETTING A HAIRCUT!

If you're going to do nostalgia and retro, why not bring back something funny, like flares?

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RE: cancer survivor suspended for wanting to donate - 1/31/2012 2:40:25 AM

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If this thread had been created by a different poster, their attitudes would be totally different.

I doubt it. If a different poster posted the same thread with the same title and whined in the same fashion as you have been doing they likely would have been taken to task in the same manner.

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RE: cancer survivor suspended for wanting to donate - 1/31/2012 6:54:45 AM

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If this thread had been created by a different poster, their attitudes would be totally different.

If the thread had a subject line that instead wanted to debate the merits of gender specific dress codes instead of the fabricated plight you described, the thread might have gone a different way.

Imagine that.

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Are you truly in favor of sex discrimination or is your dislike of me clouding your opinion?

I don't dislike you - I feel you are handicapped by your victimy worldview.

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RE: cancer survivor suspended for wanting to donate - 1/31/2012 7:00:52 AM

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The school's student handbook posted on the district's website requires boys' hair to be "clean, neat, free of unnatural or distracting colors, off the collar, off the ears and out of the eyes."

Does girls' hair also have to be off the collar, off the ears, and out of the eyes? If not, it's sex discrimination.

Do you believe that the Army is discriminating when it has different standards for male and female haircuts?

http://usmilitary.about.com/cs/army/a/armygrooming_2.htm

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RE: cancer survivor suspended for wanting to donate - 1/31/2012 7:11:11 AM

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I don't dislike you - I feel you are handicapped by your victimy worldview.

Well phrased.

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RE: cancer survivor suspended for wanting to donate - 1/31/2012 7:29:01 AM

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I don't dislike you - I feel you are handicapped by your victimy worldview.

Well phrased.

seconded

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RE: cancer survivor suspended for wanting to donate - 1/31/2012 9:03:51 AM

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As a survivor of the '60s (who didn't do enough drugs to forget it) I'm reading this with my mouth open. Where did the last half century go? Not only there are still schools where long hair on boys is a major issue, but there are still people who get fired up and insist that nothing, you hear, nothing could be more important than this young lout GETTING A HAIRCUT!

If you're going to do nostalgia and retro, why not bring back something funny, like flares?

I agree. I also survived the 60s and 70s, and I still remember all the talk about long-haired hippies. Lots of guys wore their hair long, and many still do. Can't believe people still have a hang-up over that sort of thing in this day and age.

I don't recall that my school had any dress code. Long hair was common. Kids could wear jeans and t-shirts with stuff written on them. Jack Daniels t-shirts were pretty common, as were the "Mr. Zog's Sex Wax" t-shirts that a lot of kids liked to wear. If you wanted to smoke, all you had to do was walk across the street, off school grounds. Now, my old high school has a large wrought iron fence around it, along with security guards to control entry and exit. It's like a prison now. There were no fights at the school either, since much of the student body was so stoned that nobody felt like fighting.

Ah, the good old days.

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RE: cancer survivor suspended for wanting to donate - 1/31/2012 5:28:08 PM

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When I was in Kindergarten my brother was suspended from his high school for having a "Beatles Haircut" and I don't think my hair has been as short as my brother's since I was about 14.
And just as the vice principal predicted of my brother he came to no good. DC cop for 6 years and then protected 6 US Presidents... what a loser.

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RE: cancer survivor suspended for wanting to donate - 1/31/2012 5:33:02 PM

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Jack Daniels t-shirts were pretty common, as were the "Mr. Zog's Sex Wax" t-shirts that a lot of kids liked to wear. If you wanted to smoke, all you had to do was walk across the street, off school grounds.

I WAS as a teen an actual USER of Zog's (I Surfed several times a week, nearly year round)... AND we had a hayloft facing the high school that was busier than facebook in it's day

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RE: cancer survivor suspended for wanting to donate - 1/31/2012 5:36:05 PM

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The school has a perfectly reasonable compromise. It's not saying every boy has to have the SAME haircut.

My school had a dress code, and I am willing to bet most folks went to schools that did too. Things changed dramatically in a very short time, but there were no shorts above knee length, no tank tops or camisoles, no "offensive" slogans on clothing. We could smoke outside, though.

A few years later, I was teaching in a school where you could wear tube tops and hoochie shorts but couldnt smoke or leave the building to go out to lunch or breakfast! Insanity.

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