School tells student the pink streaks in her hair are distracting, takes her out classes

[MRK]

wow, I went to school (well, sorta, I was there a few days a month lol) in the 90's, during the grunge era, girls had shaved heads and then dyed them like a cheetah and other animal patterns, never had any problems with the faculty though. Man how things have changed.

Wow, I never realized how much different it was just a few years before I got into school.

It all changed in 2001. I remember elementary school was amazing, exciting to be in. By 7th grade, everything had changed. Probably uncoincidentally, I think that is the year federal education funding got tied to percentage of attendance by the students.

Here's a repost of what I just said to kcchiefs in another thread about the same topic of him being able to not attend most of school and still not only pass and get A's:

That sounds like an interesting education, much different than the one I experienced.

The education I had could only be described as a grind. The grade you received was a function of the hours you put in, more or less. There was typically no way you could even miss a single class without your grade going down, because there was always either "homework" to submit, a test, a quiz, or a lecture/film that was necessary to complete the next day's homework for. Having an excused absence would allow you 1 day more to submit the work.

When people didn't show up for 2 weeks, their life was hell because they had to grind twice as hard for the next to weeks to recover, losing sleep while already fatigued recovering from a 2 week illness, etc. etc. If their absence was 'unexcused', they failed the entire semester with no exceptions unless they were able to get A's on everything else and keep a passing grade despite their string of 0's from the previous two weeks, which even then was highly unlikely to be possible due to the disproportionate weight of a 0 versus a passing grade. I would consider a passing grade to be 88% or above because without it (3.3 repeating or B+ average) you weren't going to get into a respected college.

 

[DamianTV]

I don't think its about suppressing individuality. If it was, they would install a strict school uniform like they have in so many countries. Uniforms is indeed less distracting and more importantly offer less opportunity for conflicts. You have so many other ways one can express their sense of individuality without dying your hair.

Just about every private school in my country wears school uniforms and there is little or no govt regulations for private schools there. It just another way of creating a better learning environment for the children which is purpose of schooling in the first place

I disagree because I dont believe the purpose of schooling has anything to do with education any longer.

If there was anything relevant taught in public schools, kids who graduated would know how to balance their checkbooks, start a business, be aware that the earth revolves around the sun, and that George Washington was not the President of the United States in 1776. Kids cant do math, they dont know who Jefferson was, they cant apply Scientific Method, they cant read, but most importantly, most do not think. Some degree of appearance restriction isnt always bad, just as a parent may not allow their daughter to leave the house wearing a "slutty" outfit, or flat out naked. However, I think outfits are a distraction point from the true purpose of schools, obedience and dependance.

A Prison By Any Other Name - Josie the Outlaw