Brickbat: Pink?

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Timothy Jenkins, a freshman at Mississippi's Gulfport High School was suspended after he dyed his hair pink. The school dress code says a student's hair must be a natural-looking color.

Comments

[Trigger Hippie]

Meh. I got kicked off my freshman basketball team for first getting, then refusing to cut off my blue mohawk.

[Radioactive]

commie pinko...no wait, commie blueo?

[UnCivilServant]

As long as they apply the same rule throughout, I'm not seeing anything to get worked up about. Is there any sign of a double standard? It's not exactly an absurd component of a dress code.

[Radioactive]

it's all dependent on the shading and if he clashed with what the cool girls were wearing that day...

[SomeGuy]

yea its a standard dress code rile since at least the 80s/90s.

as long as it applies to guys and girls i dont see the issue. Still a stupid fucking rule but not unjust perse.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Well, when I was a freshman I showed up to class having let my buzzcut grow out an inch and a half and I was mocked mercilessly. And that was by the teacher. And I was home schooled!

[UnCivilServant]

Serves you right.

Why didn't you learn the lesson about proper self-care?

[pan fried wylie]

his Health teacher was also the Gym teacher, so, yeah.

[Radioactive]

did she dress you funny too?

[Will4Freedom]

I guess I had it good. My hair was past my shoulders, had a beard and would wear my colors to school every day.

colors = MC club patches.

[UnCivilServant]

How much were you held back if you had anything that could be called a beard?

[Will4Freedom]

I was held back because of my stupidity, anti-authoritarian attitude, laziness, etc.

I don't think my beard had anything to do with it. There were kids with better beards and they were not held back at all.

[Will4Freedom]

Or was that some kind of euphemism I'm not familiar with?

[Radioactive]

yeah it rhymes with dumb fuck...

[SomeGuy]

I knew a black/Puerto rican who had a beard at 15. Was also a racist hypocritical little shit.

[Longtobefree]

Will this be part of the DeVos choice policy?

[Rich]

Jenkins said he got multiple warnings before his suspension, with school officials saying it distracted other students.

I'm sure there are plenty of other "distractions" that officials at least tolerate.

[Wizard4169]

Yeah, it's always a "distraction", but I often found administrators' petty tyranny far more distracting that the behavior they were cracking down on.

[Bra Ket]

Going for some kind of LGBT-discrimination angle here?

[Radioactive]

colorist!!!

[Real American]

"His mother, Sheryl Jenkins, said the policy infringes on his rights and her right as a parent to decide what's best for her child."

Mom's a damn fool, too. No word from "Dad" which is not surprising at all.

[phenryinohio]

Grown up now. But even then studied this a lot. Basically, if you are in school you have pretty much less freedom than than those peeps who were 2/3 of a person persons until 1865. And that was before the parents came and got you.

[#NotMyReason (Krabappel)]

This seems like an awfully local story to be published in cosmopolitan Reason magazine.