2012-09-07, 03:31 PM
SaptaZapta Wrote:I said "haircut rule", not "haircut". The teacher was out of bounds for cutting the boy's hair, everyone agrees on it including her own principal, no point beating a dead horse.
However, people here are acting as if having this law (that boys with long hair can't take the elementary school graduation test) is horrible oppression, a denial of basic human rights, and a sufficient reason to not live in Singapore. Seriously?
You want to talk about stupid and oppressive rules?
When I was in third grade we went to Houston, Texas, for my father's post-doctorate. The school made me swear allegiance to the American flag every morning, even when they knew I could barely speak a dozen words of English, and was not an American citizen.
Oh, so you had to swear allegiance to the flag? Obviously you probably didn't really say it right, being that english wasn't your first language. So what did the Teacher in Houston Texas do? Rip out your tongue? Oops too harsh. Did she..force you to get out of the classroom until you could say it right? Did she tell you that if you didn't say it right you would never get past third grade, and couldn't take any third grade tests? I'm guessing. No.