Whose Fault Is This: The School Or The Father

[SpatiallyAware]

The father is "using" the kid for the publicity.

Rather than cut her hair in an appropriate manner he's causing her grief, pain, and irreparable psychological harm. She has now learned to shriek and pitch a fit and calls the news any time things don't go her way.


Arrest the dad for child abuse, put the kids in foster care.

 

[Exterous]

Seems like an easy open and shut case. The school has certain rules. Don't like them, don't send your kid there. Don't send your kid there, violate the rules and then whine about it. What's more, the school is FREE. Dad should STFU already.

Beyond that simple obvious truth, the dad is doubly stupid because he's likely doomed his daughters chance at a free decent education for the sake of a stupid hairdo. What a moron.

:thumbsup: Easy enough.

Also - if it really bothered you why not dispute the rule at a PTA (or similar) meeting? Seems a much more logical way than using your daughter as a pawn

 

[tynopik]

I'm going to skip past the bits where you label my arguments as "stupid" and accuse me of "whining", or the sweeping statements regarding "kids these days needing discipline" and "these kids are going to have zero problems expressing their individuality or challenging authority", your apparent inability to understand simple logical premises (x may contribute to cause y, but getting rid of x does not necessarily make y disappear completely), your comparison to normal life and the military (on so many levels: Really?), which leaves:

lol at your utter lack of comprehension

Really? I somewhat doubt that there's any room for questioning such a silly rule as far as the school is concerned.

of course there is. the girl wasn't forced to leave for questioning the rules

you can petition the admin, the father can go to school meetings

however another important life lesson is that sometimes the answer to your question is 'No'

deal with it

It sounds to me like a case of "follow our rules or find another school".

that's how every place in the world works

except jail

but they have other ways of encouraging you to follow the rules

Do you really think that if a parent questions this rule that the school won't trot out the same silly excuses for such a rule as I pointed out in the first place with the same sorts of half-arsed justifications like "stupid rules help instil discipline"?

you are confusing 'questioning the rule' with 'getting the rule overturned'

If the number of stupid rules are increased, does that make the students even more disciplined, or are the number of stupid rules already in place the perfect balance to create the ideal outcome?

that's for the school to decide

If there wasn't this stupid rule in place, what might have happened?

whiners would have found some other stupid rule to make a fool of themselves over

 

[Svnla]

IMO, school is the place for education, not for fashion/politicial/<insert whatever> statement.

 

[T9D]

Her hair didn't look bad at all. Or even really like "dread locks". The spirit of the rule is to look decent and presentable. Which she did. She looked like a well kept little girl. Having a society that is that strict to the letter of the law is unreasonable. We are better off with a society of reasonable thinking people. The rule was obviously made so people don't show up like this:

There are always people who go and look for a reason to crucify others and scrutinize them with a fine tooth comb in order to find fault. If they can't simply make a balanced decision on a rule or law based on the principle of it then It's those people who need to be fired.