I’ve always thought that high and tights are so lame, it looks like you’re stuck in the 1950’s or something. That being said I think the kid should be able to sport one if he wants, I’m not seeing how it’s distracting. When I was in the Army I always had a fade or shaved my head completely.
So, what do they do in a month or two when it grows out to exactly what it was before?
Decapitation.
Here’s the part I don’t get: Most school dress codes are generally intended to ban “extreme” haircuts like mohawks and the like.
A high and tight is pretty much of the ne pas ultra of male conservative haircuts.
So to me, it seems hypocritical for them to ban this kid’s haircut at all. The only way it’s extreme is in its extreme conservatism.
Would you say this guy has an “extreme” haircut?
That’s what the kid had, so, according to the principal of his school, that’s gotta go.
Gawd, this is all stupid. OK, I’m pretty conservative in support of school dress codes, etc., but I see no problem with this boy’s haircut. It might not even look bad if you could see his whole face/head.
It is certainly not a mohawk.
You want to see dumb haircuts? Visit your local high school.
Also, some parents cut their kids’ hair themselves (I do, 3/4 of the time. It usually looks good–usually). What if a kid just had an amateur home haircut that didn’t look just so? Shave that, too? My grandmother cut my hair throughout elementary school. Sometimes I ended up with 1 cm long bangs because I wasn’t holding still, or she was distracted. Whatever.
Last summer, my daughter (almost 4 y.o. now) got a hold of my scissors. She had **such **a good time with them, that I had to give her a #2 buzz. 
She still looks, well, kind of butch. But I think she’s adorable. Were she a year or two older when she cut her hair, and I fixed it, I wonder if she’d run afoul of some archaic dress codes at school. But in that case, you couldn’t shave her head to fit in. Maybe I’d have to buy her a wig…