2012-09-07, 07:45 AM
I had a lot to say about this initially but my thoughts boil down to this: What kind of lesson are we teaching the supposed leaders of tomorrow if having hair that is slightly too long is grounds for public embarrassment, humiliation and the possibility of having one's future ruined?
Whatever can be said about his getting warning letters and such prior to this incident, I think it is a dumb rule to bar students from exams just because their hair is long because that in turn implies that appearance trumps results and it was worse of the teacher to just cut the kid's hair off like that because of what she threatened to do if he didn't comply. There's also the possibility that this kid will always link exams to that one time when he got made a spectacle out of and I'm sure that can't be anything great either.
Whatever can be said about his getting warning letters and such prior to this incident, I think it is a dumb rule to bar students from exams just because their hair is long because that in turn implies that appearance trumps results and it was worse of the teacher to just cut the kid's hair off like that because of what she threatened to do if he didn't comply. There's also the possibility that this kid will always link exams to that one time when he got made a spectacle out of and I'm sure that can't be anything great either.