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Why do schools care what length someone's hair is anyway? Are they just power mad control freaks?
It's Texas, so my money is on a few good ol' boys who 1.) don't appreciate the kid's skin color, 2.) don't love that he's nationally embarrassed them for the fools they are, and 3.) are dense enough to believe they can still "win" this thing.
Yes. Schools exist to make your kids into little workers for their kids.
Because everyone should look like everyone else. Like clones. After all working in the factories needs co-ordination.
Its generally conservative viewpoints of fitting people into "the norm". Conservatism/traditionalism doesnt stop in the U.S, japan has schools for example that require students dye their hair black and conform to a very atrict uniform. Although that requirement was dropped very recently in tokyo(like 2021), it likely still exist in some regions.
Is the admin white? Well there ya go.
Yes. Schools have cultures just like anywhere else. Once the administration has a sufficient number of power-hungry losers, this is the end result.
They can never do anything wrong. It is always someone else's fault for everything. And all of them reinforce this mentality in each other.
It's disgusting.
I had dyed blue hair in highschool, I think this must be an American thing
America is huge, it varies wildly by region. Nobody in my area gives a shit about stuff like that, and didn't ~25 years ago when I was in HS either
I had some punk students with non-natural hair colors when I was a high school teacher in California, and that was a long time ago. Nobody cared. This story is from Texas, though.
Good question. I think we all know the answer to why they're making an example out of this kid.