School Nixes Teen Quest to Grow Wig Hair

[emad]

Guardian Snip:

Thursday September 16, 2004 2:01 PM


HARLINGEN, Texas (AP) - A South Texas school board denied a student's request to grow long hair for a group that makes wigs for sick children, instead offering him the post of American Cancer Society liaison along with a $500 donation to the group in his name.

The $500 came from an anonymous donor in the amount that the hair would be worth.

Gerardo Garcia, Jr., 16, said he hoped to grow his hair at least 10 inches for donation to Florida-based Locks of Love. The nonprofit organization uses donated ponytails to create custom-fitted hairpieces of children suffering from medical hair loss. They provided Harlingen South High School a letter verifying that Garcia had applied to be a donor.

He said he was motivated by a family history of cancer - his great-grandmother died from lymphoma, his grandmother had breast cancer and his 11-year-old brother had a lymph node removed last year and may have to undergo a biopsy.
More:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-4499109,00.html

[BlueEyedSon]

1. In Texas, you need PERMISSION to have long hair?

Holy shit.

[krkaufman]

8. From the article...

But Harlingen school officials said they could not compromise their dress code, which forbids boys from having hair that covers their eyes or hangs below their shoulders.

[One_Life_To_Give]

10. Sex Discrimination?

Are Girls allowed to have hair past their shoulders? And if so isn't it Gender Discrimination to not allow boys the same?

[Southpaw Bookworm]

12. But God said

That women and men need to look different, so that's why girls need to have long hair and boys short.

:eyes:

Or at least that's what the asshats who started this rule would tell you.

[truthspeaker]

13. WHAT THE HELL? Is this article dated 1968?

Jesus, I had no idea there were still schools this backward.

[jayfish]

2. Uhhh... Is This A Public School?

Because if it is, I would say"FUCK YOU YOU FASCIST BASTARDS" and do it anyway. When did schools get the power to dictate hair length? I wore my hair any damn way I pleased and there wasn't a damn thing anyone could do about it.

Jay

[mikehiggins]

3. Hair Police! Hair Police!

What a great country where a kid needs the permission of the school board to let his hair grow long.

Sort of puts the whole "freedom is a privelege" argument Mike Bloomberg put out in NYC into perspective.

You can't make this kind of stuff up.

Kudos to Gerardo for at least trying to do something decent in South Texas. Can't ever be too much of that going around.

[Cheswick2.0]

4. I don't understand why TX schools can tell students how to wear

their hair. Are we really back to this?

[mikehiggins]

5. Lots of places never left it. eom

[GoldenOldie]

6. $500 will not reproduce natural hair that is needed

This young man truly understands the need of a cancer patient that has lost their hair due to chemotherapy and or radiation. This has a very depressing affect especially on the young and a wig made from natural hair can do more for the mental process than $500 donated for ????

[TecnoCrat]

7. Always been like this here.

I graduated from a high shcool in Garland Texas (Outside of Dallas) about 6 years ago.

There were three pages of dress code / hair restrictions. Even for students over 18. Crazy. They spent more time worrying about if we were dressed properly than if we were learning.

[tom_paine]

9. We're going back a LOT further than that

if the Busheviks aren't stopped.

1933?

1890? 1780?

1590?

Only time will tell.

[Sub Atomic]

11. This is sad.

I've been growing my hair out for Locks of Love for the past year.

If my employer would tell me to cut my hair, I'd tell them to eat dirt.

We're all used to this type of nonsense coming out of Texas, but it seems every week something more outrageous gets reported.

Perhaps the rest of the country should encourage all Texans to empower themselves and just secede from the rest of the country.

[TahitiNut]

14. "Gimme a head with hair, long beautiful hair"

"Shining, gleaming, steaming, flaxen, waxen! Give me down-to-there hair! Shoulder length, longer (hair!) Here baby, there mama, everywhere daddy daddy! Hair! (hair, hair, hair, hair, hair, hair) Flow it! Show it! Long as God can grow it! My Hair!"



People who abhor the use of prophylactics that 'interfere with Gawd's will' are ever-so-willing to 'interfere with Gawd's will' in so many ways!

Hypocrites!

[donsu]

15. here! here!

nt