Bastrop Ruling
Posted by Victor on October 31, 1997 at 00:43:16:
Recently in the local news it was announced that results from a recent dispute involving the Bastrop school district requiring a boy to cut off his long hair resulted in a decision by the Texas Supreme Court (I think) deciding in favor of the school district. I did a search for this news item (last week's news, I think) but could not find anything on the net about it. If anybody reading this has access to more detail, please post it here or post a link to a news site. Thanks.
Re: Bastrop Ruling
Posted by Tim on October 31, 1997 at 11:02:48:
In Reply to: Bastrop Ruling posted by Victor on October 31, 1997 at 00:43:16:
I found one story on the web related to this. It is located at http://www.texasonline.net/langley/columns/hairdo.htm
: Recently in the local news it was announced that results from a recent dispute involving the Bastrop school district requiring a boy to cut off his long hair resulted in a decision by the Texas Supreme Court (I think) deciding in favor of the school district. I did a search for this news item (last week's news, I think) but could not find anything on the net about it. If anybody reading this has access to more detail, please post it here or post a link to a news site. Thanks.
Re: Bastrop Ruling
Posted by Bill on October 31, 1997 at 21:31:21:
In Reply to: Re: Bastrop Ruling posted by Tim on October 31, 1997 at 11:02:48:
:: I found one story on the web related to this. It is located at
:: http://www.texasonline.net/langley/columns/hairdo.htm
And this paragraph from that site was particularly of interest:
:While some men and boys fight for the right to wear long hair, some women were punished for
:cutting theirs too short. Three female cadets at The Citadel in Charleston, S.C., were punished
:last year for cutting each other's hair as short as the male cadets' "buzz cuts."
I recall other cases where students (boys OR girls) cut their hair "too" short, and this PO'd the authorities just as much as having it too long. But in these cases the hair police definitely do not get the last laugh. Not even the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court can order a kid to grow hair back, any faster than it wants to. :-)
It is a shame that hair is so easy to cut off and so hard to grow. Like the little nine year old boy who lost his lifetime ponytail, hair mutilation is oh, so easy. :-( And in the fleeting moment of a temporary court order, an assault, or an intimidation by another person, one can lose hair that took many years to grow. Mutilation that is so longlasting as to be near-permanent should carry a far greater penalty that it does, and it is taken far too lightly by most authorities. This is something we should scream about until it is changed.
Re: Bastrop Ruling
Posted by Nyghtfall on November 01, 1997 at 02:26:42:
In Reply to: Re: Bastrop Ruling posted by Bill on October 31, 1997 at 21:31:21:
: It is a shame that hair is so easy to cut off and so hard to grow.
It has always been far easier to destroy than it has been to create.
Re: Bastrop Ruling
Posted by stephen on December 07, 1997 at 19:30:33:
In Reply to: Re: Bastrop Ruling posted by Nyghtfall on November 01, 1997 at 02:26:42:
Nyghtfall:
contact me some time. You sound OK man!!
Steve