<p>"MARSHALL, Mo. – An eighth-grader was taken out of class Tuesday because of her hair coloring, KMBC-TV in Kansas City reported.</p>
<p>An administrator at Bueker Middle School said the girl’s red highlights were distracting to other students…</p>
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<p>this is seriously stupid</p>
<p>I don’t want anyone else talking about the narrowmindedness of Southerners! Unless the other side of the child’s head is dramatically different, it is exactly what she said - she picked the wrong bottle of highlighter. My son is a swarthy blonde - he gets very tan, and his hair gets very blonde on the surface, with dark highlights underneath - the natural contrast in his hair when school starts is as striking as hers - just different colors, and more even. Man!</p>
<p>I find this story incredible! And that was before I even opened the article and saw the photo of merely reddish tinted highlights that didn’t blend with her blond hair. Before I saw that, I figured they were talking of that bright hot pinkish day glo stuff some kids have put in their hair and even then, I could not believe someone would be disciplined at school for THAT. But this is even worse…it is just a bad home hair dye thing. In either case, I can’t believe there are rules like this! It is stupid and has nothing to do with distraction or education. We’re not talking underwear showing, skimpy clothing, offensive tee shirt messages even. Hair color??? Where does this end??? This is one time when bringing in the Civil Liberties Union makes sense. Is there even a policy at that school about hair COLOR??? Um, what about style? What about nail color? Eye shadow color? It’s nuts. </p>
<p>Susan</p>
<p>“Missouri”</p>
<p>makes more sense now…this article reminds me of that insane woman on trading spouses…that howlin’ anti black magic, bible thumpin’ southern woman…crazy</p>
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<p>Ditto soozievt. I originally thought it must have been pretty wild of a “color malfunction” to generate this much of a fuss – and then I opened the photo. That’s IT? Holy cow. </p>
<p>PS as a coincidence today at my FIRST GRADER’s school they are having “wild hair” day where you can pay (a quarter) to have your hair sprayed with that temporary stuff.</p>
<p>This is small-mindedness at the extreme. Heaven forbid. I’d love to see this ding dong be an administrator in LA or NYC, wouldn’t you?</p>
<p>Quiltguru…you got it. He’d have to see students with hair colors of the rainbow (sometimes all on ONE person), piercings in every inconceivable place, tatoos, more skin than clothing showing, boys’ pants with crotches hanging below the knees, girls’ underwear on display, boys’ hair in mohawks or ponytails, chains and other paraphenalia hanging off the clothing, stiletto heels, dreadlocks, um, what else did I leave out??</p>
<p>Pens that aren’t in blue/black ink? </p>
<p>Pencils that aren’t #2? ("It’s distracting to the teachers to read assignments that aren’t written in the right contrasts)</p>
<p>Brunettes? (“We’ve had only blond folks in these here parts, and we don’t need no newfangled colorations”)</p>
<p>Any boys not named Bubba?</p>
<p>My cousin’s school is weird like that too. You cannot have bart simpson or power rangers on your notebook or folders. LOL.</p>
<p>Oh, don’t you folks think there is some deeper issue here? I mean, we have a girl here who is coloring her hair, for goodness sake! What message is she trying to send? What message does it send to YOUR kid, especially if he or she is blond. Is this kid saying there is something wrong with just plain blond hair? Is she insulting all the other blonds in the school? Do you think the kid has fangs like a vampire? Has anyone even thought to ask her to open her mouth? In a day when kids are falling dead like so many flies from drugs and other things, these are important questions we need to ask as we discuss this especially weighty matter. (sheesh!)</p>
<p>I can see the reasons for the rule. However, there is a reason that administrators are humans and not robots. Some interpretation, ESPECIALLY in to a subjective rule as stated in the article, is necessary. At worst, the hair color is not natural. I cannot imagine that as a distracting hair style. It’s a small fraction of the hair dyed a color that is natural to many other people. It simply is not that distracting.</p>
<p>A friend of mine has a son who had orange hair throughout high school. When he was about to be interviewed for college, he resumed his natural hair color. He got into a top school. My rather conservative friend’s take on this? Better he gets this out of his system when he’s young and there are no consequences, than when it really matters. An eighth grader… Sheesh.</p>
<p>Drosselmeier, LOL!</p>
<p>Oh and my favorite is: No dangle or hoop earrings. Haha.</p>
<p>no red highlights, no blue highlights. gang colors</p>
<p>In Mizzu those would be considered hated Kansas U colors.</p>
<p>Our schools are just the same…I find it terribly offensive. My oldest D was once pulled out of class because she had taken a pink bandana, folded it in 1 inch folds until it resembled a headband, and wore it just like a headband with the knot at the bottom and just a one-inch strip of pink showing at the top. She was informed that it was “gang attire”!!! HUH? </p>
<p>I was actually pretty worried about some highlights that my D just got…though they were intended to be very natural looking, the reddish ones DID end up pretty pinkish, and I sweated the first day or two back at school. Thankfully, no one has said anything about it.</p>
<p>The “Goth” kids, though, are allowed to walk around in clown-like makeup–including black lipstick–and corsets. Even the guys. Now THAT’S not distracting, but a few highlights, yep, I can see the problem. :rolleyes:</p>
<p>~berurah</p>
<p>Bizarre story. I will admit that my sons’ private school specifies that hair must be natural. But that’s fine in a private school, which also has a pretty serious dress code. For a public school, this is ridiculous. One of the first kids I saw when we visited Dartmouth for the first time had a multi-colored mohawk – it doesn’t seem to have held him back at all!</p>
<p>Had I opened the picture and seen purple hair with yellow polka dots or some other extreme color, I could have understood the action taken, but that just looks like a highlight job to me … not a good one, but a highlight.</p>
<p>Well, I can top this story. </p>
<p>How about a middle school girl who was banned from school for wearing a handmade red, white, and blue beaded necklace because the school has a “no gang colors” rule.</p>
<p>This is a school whose school colors are red, white, and blue (because their sports teams are “the Patriots.”) The girl said she made the necklace to honor her uncle, a National guardsman serving in Iraq.</p>
<p>The school said there’s one local gang whose color is blue. Another local gang has red for its color. Ergo, the necklace is banned.</p>
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<p>That school in Schenectady had better not fly the American flag in the front, as it may be misconstrued as gangsta decor.</p>