Public School Hair
Needville school district in Texas has a problem. They have a rule that says boys cannot wear their hair longer than their collar. Why? Well, no one seems to care why, they just have a rule, and they’re not making any exceptions to their rule. They do actually make a claim that boys who have short hair have better attendance records than those with long hair. No really, they do. Of course, since they have a rule that no boys can have long hair, I’m really not sure how they can back up that claim with anything remotely looking like actual evidence.
But of course, that doesn’t matter.
Can you believe that federal courts have already made rules saying that schools can have such directions? Aren’t you so glad to see that your tax dollars are being spent on absolutely critical things — like making rules about hair length of 5-year old boys in schools. But hey, we’ve got rules, so we have to follow them, no matter what. So the school district is saying that the 5-year old in question cannot attend school unless he cuts his hair.
So what if the boy doesn’t attend school? This is Texas, so you know what’s going to happen next — they WILL seize the child and take him from his family. Nope, no one will have done anything wrong, there will be NO court hearings, there will be no juries, no judgments. That’s how justice works in Texas, we have learned. If there’s a child involved, the child is taken first, then, well, whatever the judge wants to happen happens next. I imagine the state will strap the child down and cut his hair. Then they will put him in a foster home away from his parents because, in the eyes of government, the parent is dangerous because she didn’t cut his hair.
This sounds far-fetched, but it is reality today. This story is happening right now to real people. And people claim this is the “land of the free.” What a load.
And the Houston Chronicle, supporting the oppressive government actually claims:
The dispute illustrates a problem American schools have faced for decades: how to balance individual student rights against rules designed to maintain order and discipline in the classroom.
No, no it doesn’t at all. These lunatics are actually claiming that a boy with hair longer than his collar is dangerous! This doesn’t highlight a problem with American schools — it highlights a problem of a government that’s totally out of control. I can solve this “decades”-old problem in 1 second: get government out of the education business. It really is that simple.
Of course, that solution involves freedom and personal responsibility, so there’s just no way the current politicians will EVER allow it to happen. That solution will take money and power out of the hands of bureaucrats and puts it in people — and government simply cannot allow ANY reduction in their power, ever.
I just wish the “reporters” would be honest and report the facts, instead of claiming lies that support more government. But I’m no more likely to get that than I am educational freedom in this country today, am I?
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