Brickbat: We're Not Gonna Take It

Some 250 students walked out of England's Milford Haven School after the school removed a 15-year-old boy from classes for shaving his head. Rhys Johnson shaved his head to raise money to fight cancer. School officials say the boy and his family were warned that shaved heads violate school policy and ignored those warnings to take part in the fundraiser.

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[Fist of Etiquette]

Independent thought is a cancer in modern education that must be removed.

[Copernicus]

When we grew up and went to school,
there were certain teachers,
who would hurt the children any way they could.

By pouring out their derision,
upon anything we did,
exposing every weakness, however, carefully hidden by the kids.

But in the town, it was well known that when they got home at night,
their fat and psychopathic wives,
would thrash them,
within inches of their lives!

[Eduard van Haalen]

That's a good poem, you should set it to music, it could be a hit.

[Copernicus]

Umm, do you know any good guitarists?

[JeremyR]

Ironically, that's written by a communist...

[Snark Plissken]

To be fair, there was a rumor Sinead O'Conner was going to try and enroll there and they didn't want to take any chances.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Fight the real enemy.

[Bardas Phocas]

What, is the holy NHS now chopped liver?

[BuSab Agent]

Milford Haven is NOT in England. Be prepared for some Welshmen to have words with you!.

[invisible furry hand]

Can Americans tell the difference?

[Spartacus]

Americans are not sure whether New Mexico is a state or not. Asking them about faraway Asian lands is totaly unfair.

[Spartacus]

should be "totally". Welshmen took one of my l's. And one of everybody else's from the looks of it.

[croaker]

Americans are sure. It's the sub-morons employed by TSA that aren't sure.

[Ted S.]

How do the Welsh make words without any vowels?

[kinnath]

The vowels all fled to Ireland where they took up residence in the first and last names of the country's inhabitants.

[Lord Humungus]

anti-skinhead measures?

As a sometimes head-shaver - my hair grows like a weed - I'm offended.

[JidaKida]

Sounds like a very solid plan to me dude.

http://www.AnonWonders.tk

[Live Free or Diet]

I wonder what they'd do if he grew a little square mustache instead?

[sticks]

"I can understand the school doesn't want kids coming through with different hairstyles"

I can't.

[Ted S.]

It's all about enforcing orthodoxy.

[MWG]

At Milford Haven children should be neither seen nor heard.

[Rich]

he ended up being taught in isolation at Milford Haven School after it said he broke its haircut rules.

If *every* student there shaved its head, think of the JOBZ created!

[Ted S.]

Yet another example of how the State is the biggest bully of them all.

(The article doesn't aay anything about the school being a private school.)

[Butts Wagner]

The school is only trying to prevent false STEVE SMITH sightings.

[Bean Counter]

It's amusing that the generation that sang derisively about people living in "little boxes made of ticky-tacky" now use taxpayer money to build schools entirely out of ticky-tacky and their government credit cards to order ticky-tacky by the lorry load.