Student fights code of conduct to keep pink hair

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Originally Posted by Drolefille

Sure, buck the system, but she's going to fail her classes.

Let's get something straight here, kids:

Schools are NOT intended to spawn "by-rote" automatons, NOR are they intended to prepare you for any sort of 'job' - there are plenty of trade/vocational schools available for that purpose.

Let me make that more clear for some of you:

If you want your kid to be prepared for the 'real job world' by a school, send him to a vocational school.

Since most of us here are elitist suburbanite assholes (I know I am), most of us also know that the very term "vocational" has a stigma attached to it - and sometimes rightly so, as it is where you place 'problem children' etc.

School is intended to educate children - to teach them the educational basics we have deemed necessary for everyday living. Let's stop this ivory tower garbage about "She'll fail in the real world so f- her!" - if the school's dress code does not allow pink hair because it may be a distraction, so be it. If you think that pink hair actually IS a distraction in a school, you're probably functionally retarded, but hey, you agree with the school, so be it - you can understand where the administration is coming from.

If you realize that "distraction" is NOT the reason why this student is being punished, and instead there is some sort of decorum utilized to 'prep for the real world' (as many of you have so kindly put it) or, more likely, in some vain or ill-conceived attempt to force homogeneity for disciplinary purposes, then you ALSO fully understand why the child wants to challenge the system.

As far as the mother supporting that, I say to each her own - the student can always learn lessons in school, and dropping back one quarter is not the end of the world. Greater wars have been fought over less, so march on, brave beat up bad-dye-job soldier.