http://www.thedenverchannel.com/den/news/stories/news-110576720011206-111221.html
Punk Snot Dead!
How, exactly, is hair disruptive? Is it snakes, like Medusa’s hair? I mean, that could get annoying, with all the moving around and hissing and rattling. Or maybe it’s fire, like that guy from Disneys <ahem> interperetation of Hercules. I could see how an open flame topping off one’s head could be considered disruptive.
But this is regular old hair we’re talking about, right?
It’s not disruptive if you ignore it. It’s disruptive when school officials go ape and react like this.
If a kid come in with a purple mohawk, the teacher can say “nice hair” and give every 15 seconds to admire it and then tell everyone to get back to work. End of story. Gee whiz, it’s not like the other students are pandas or something who get highly disturbed by strange changes in their environment.
I’ll say it again: it’s the superintendent, not the students, who are turning unique hair into “disruptive hair.”
How do these people get hired?
They get hired the same way my high school principle got hired.
A 1980 girl in my class was sent home for disruptive hair when she came to school with her shoulder length hair cornrowed with beads on the ends, ala Bo Derek in “10”.
It was stupid then and it’s stupid now.
Disruptive hair? I’m going to plop that classic John Waters movie “Hairspray” in the VCR tonight. You wanna talk disruptive hair, get a load of Debbie Harry’s do in the movie. Maybe they have cooties. I’d be disturbed by that. BTW Cranky adolescents do tend to act like pandas when their environment is disturbed. 
Come to think of it, I get all panda freaky when my environment gets disturbed.
At our high school (smack dab in Central Florida), we have a student with “Statue of Liberty hair,” that is, he has long, dangerous-looking spikes gelled up straight all over his head. Our administrators (and most of the teachers) shake their heads and chuckle about it, but nobody pitches a fit. He’s probably expressing himself somehow. He doesn’t let anybody touch it, though.
The offense isn’t so much being “disruptive” but rather “failure to conform”. Failure to conform is a grave offense in today’s society, and especially today’s schools, and is to be punished severely.
Please channel your nonconformity into approved forms of nonconformity so that the rest of us will be able to tell that you’re engaging in your daily dose of noncomformity and will not become disturbed. If you are unclear as to whether a particular form of noncomformity is approved, you should assume that it is not, and instead continue to conform. Thank you for your cooperation. Have a nice day.
OMG, Cranky, I don’t know if it’s because this past week has lasted a month or what, but damn, that made me laugh out loud for real. I could picture a room full of pandas, getting all agitated because someone had “disruptive hair”. snicker
The article states that “exaggerated coloring” would not be tolerated… I bleach mine. I wonder if absence of color is exaggerating? Damn, I’m glad I’m not still in high school. Of course, now I keep my “disruptive” hair a bit less disruptive, as I would like to keep my job, but hey, punk rock is a state of mind, right? 
Well, yeah. I was in South West Florida for my high school edjookashun and I had both a mohawk and a shaved head with devil horns for awhile. No one gave me shit about it. It was like “don’t play it up, and it’s not a big deal”
Disruptive hair, disruptive clothes, it’s all idiotic. The school officials who make a silly fuss about such things are posturing. Posturing for the press, the adult citizens, the local power structure. Or possibly just trying to convince themselves of what important people they are.
It could also be the students are glad to get a rise out of school officials-just ignore it. If that’s the WORST thing someone does in their life, they’re saints!
Almost makes me want to go and inroll in that school just so I can be suspended too. grrrrrrrrrrrrrr
Is that like the time I was suspended for my unruly breasts?
Guinastasia ROFL! This reminds me of something my mother told a teacher once. I was in the 10th grade and one of my teachers called my mother to tell her that she (the teacher) was giving me a “B” in conduct because I talk too much. My mother told the teacher…“if that’s the worse thing he ever does, he might turn out ok. call me when he does something.” Gotta love Mom for that! LOL
Ginger it ain’t like we didn’t tell you to keep em inside yer shirt!
Did anyone aside from me, read where the students deliberately changed their hair styles to provoke a confrontation? I would say that this makes the situation into more than a simple failure to follow the schools rules.
When I was in school we had a strict, but expansive dress code that served everyone just fine. Girls could wear their hair long, but could not do anything weird with it, like spray it different colors, spike it, wear it in mohawks or even shave it off. Boys could not wear their hair below their collars, wear mohawks, spray it different colors nor shave it off. Boys were not allowed to wear beards of any type.
Cloths varied, but you could not show up looking like a punk rocker, could not wear any shirt making any form of racial or political comment, could not wear muscle shirts or tank tops, shorts, skirts too short ( just above the knee was fine) beach wear, sandals, ‘skuffs’ or ‘flip-flops’, nor combat or heavy work boots.
Trousers were not worn pulled down to ass-crack with boxers pulled up to nipples. Hip huggers were allowed but no exposing of underwear, not parachute pants, no hunting or camouflage pants.
Funny, that left so many ways for the students to express themselves back then and they did.
We need rules in the schools and rules are to be followed. You cannot have a small group of students disrupting the school just because they choose to do so. Without rules, society turns into anarchy and then everyone gripes about not having enough laws. In fact, students in the higher grades get away with a whole lot more today than what was allowed in my time and, interestingly enough, we now have a disciplinary problem and less teachers.
With the rules of my day, kids did not bring weapons to school and try to kill each other and there were no gangs on the grounds. I think you need to back up the schools instead of demanding that they bend to the individual rights of every student who wishes to be a pain in the butt. Back then, parents did not sue the schools either if little Bobby felt he should not take a random drug test to stay on the basketball team, which was initiated anyhow to stop drug use in the schools and possible danger to all students.
The kids in the article deliberately started this incident. They need to be suspended as long as necessary. Don’t like the rules? Send them to another school or home teach them.
AlbertRose, my dear man, those are, as we punks call them, liberty spikes. Nice and simple. Glad I don’t go to the school. I know a guy who had a 18" mohawk for a while, but he was tired of fixing it daily. I might even get suspended, though my hair isn’t long enough to to be be considered unruly. Yet.
[dereranged]HAHAHAHAHAHAHA[/deranged]
Good thing I say. Keep 'em in line, don’t want any of the sheep straying from the flock. Better they learn this lesson early on in life than become one of them damned radical free-thinkers who believe they just might be able to change the world, and then just to realize that the man WILL hold you down no matter how utopian you think the world COULD be. Damn hippies and punks.
I find myself quite insulted ejolen. People thinking outside of the “box” have built this planet. And I am very insulted from you damning me. I am a punk and proud of it. We are a good group of people. Can’t help on the hippies though.
Uh…(your name here)…I think you’ve been wooshed.