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Recently I came across this article about a kid who was trying to be like his older stepbrother who is currently serving, by getting a high-and-tight hair cut. The next day, the mother of the child was sent a letter from the school saying that the school isn't a military school and that the child's hair cut is "distracting". The mother was told to "fix" her son's haircut. Of course, this would mean shaving the kid's head clean.
As I was reading the article it got me to thinking about how I maintain my other hair. While I haven't been in the Army since 2008, I still to this day can't stand my hair getting too long. I go every other week and it cleaned up. While no one as ever accused me of having "distracting hair" I don't know how I would react if I was put in the position as the family was in this article.
As I was reading the article it got me to thinking about how I maintain my other hair. While I haven't been in the Army since 2008, I still to this day can't stand my hair getting too long. I go every other week and it cleaned up. While no one as ever accused me of having "distracting hair" I don't know how I would react if I was put in the position as the family was in this article.
Posted 9 y ago
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I think that teachers should teach the other children how to ignore small distractions, being that there are going to be distractions wherever you go, and removing the "distraction" only serves to be a short term solution. How about we let all the children run around and grow up thinking they have ADHD because they were never taught how to focus with distractions when they were younger. I think it's bullshit that teachers are allowed to take away the privileges we fought for our children to have, just because they are to lazy to teach the other children how to focus with a "distraction".
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What- they let kids dye their hair, I have seen extreme "Mohawks" etc, and a high/tight is distracting? I would have a sit down with the principal outside while a class change is underway and see what is distracting.
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Perhaps instead of removing distractions from classes, teachers should be teaching children to focus on work with distractions present. The world, as many of us grow to find out, is far from distraction free. Teaching children skills to handle open distractions sets them up with abilities for later in life when they have to face such hurdles anyway.
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