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A young boy's high and tight haircut meant to honor his soldier-stepbrother earned him the threat of suspension from an elementary school named for a Medal of Honor recipient, and the fallout from the incident has led a Tennessee school district to increase security measures.
Adam Stinnett went to Bobby Ray Memorial Elementary School in McMinnville, about a 90-minute drive southeast from Nashville, on March 9 sporting the new hairdo. His mother, Amy Stinnett, said he'd requested the high and tight to be more like Spc. Justin Bloodworth, his active-duty stepbrother.
Adam was written up by the principal, who thought the haircut was against school policy banning "mohawk haircuts or other extreme cuts."
After his mother received an email from the principal and stopped by for a face-to-face chat, it was made clear that Adam's hairstyle would have to change before he returned to school.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/03/27/school-threatens-suspension-boy-military-haircut/70531810/
Are they only hiring jackasses as principals these days? Yesterday we had that principal who didn't want the special needs student to wear a letter jacket, and now this jughead goes apeshit over a "military" haircut that he thinks is a Mohawk.
LiberalArkie
(15,772 posts)are generally control freaks.
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)for sociopaths.
LiberalArkie
(15,772 posts)because he was essentially lead tech before. He was the only manager I had ever known who told upper management to fire him if they layed off any of his people. He meant it. When company wide layoffs were going on, his was the only dept to have never had a person canned. He just recently taken a job in engineering (non management) and moved away from operations.
paleotn
(18,184 posts)couple that with the Peter Principle and you have management in the US, from major corporations down to rural elementary schools.
LiberalArkie
(15,772 posts)bought jobs as Senators or Representatives. Now they want to rise to their own level of imcompetance to become President.
Telcontar
(660 posts)greiner3
(5,214 posts)He's a perfect example of the Peter Principle (no pun);
"The Peter Principle is a concept in management theory in which the selection of a candidate for a position is based on the candidate's performance in their current role rather than on abilities relevant to the intended role. Thus, employees only stop being promoted once they can no longer perform effectively, and "managers rise to the level of their incompetence."'
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Principle
He was both chief of staff and head social worker at a VA hospital and was at the highest pay grade possible so I don't think this applied to him, IMO.
stone space
(6,498 posts)NaturalHigh
(12,778 posts)This principal is a moron.
stone space
(6,498 posts)I don't follow hair restoration technology (although I probably should!), but might a hair transplant be a possibility?
NaturalHigh
(12,778 posts)Well, that's what I was thinking. I think I'd just go back to school in a Doink the Clown wig.
As for hair restoration technology, that ship sailed a decade or so ago for me.
Liberal_in_LA
(44,397 posts)NaturalHigh
(12,778 posts)DeSwiss
(27,137 posts)zeemike
(18,998 posts)Right wingers do that well...especialy sense they are the ones who want to destroy public education.
NaturalHigh
(12,778 posts)abelenkpe
(9,933 posts)What better way to keep us fighting amongst ourselves over petty BS?
Quantess
(27,630 posts)Are you saying it is a false flag operation or something?
zeemike
(18,998 posts)If someone hates the school system they do things to show how fucked up it is and let the outrage flow.
It is how you undermine any system...and how you manipulate people.
Buy right wingers would never do that would they?
Quantess
(27,630 posts)who says anything goes, the wilder and more counter-culture the better, and only has a problem with military style high & tight?
Somehow I think that is is a stretch, but you never know. Some people don't do reading comprehension very well, but still... it says right in the article mohawks aren't allowed either.
zeemike
(18,998 posts)Being oppressive of patriotic people...which is what the right wing has believed sense the John Birch Society started the attack on public education.
First I ask you why the Mohawk was in it in the first place and why the parent decided to give her kid that cut...it reminds me of the kid that got suspended for chewing a pop tart into a gun...why did they do that?...but it again sparked outrage by the right and caused us to support such a stupid reason for a suspension.
They get by with manipulating us and them with emotions.
lake loon
(99 posts)Hairstyles and clothing styles and sexual orientations and gender identities are none of your god-damned business. Just teach, OK??
paleotn
(18,184 posts)...I totally agree and welcome to DU.
TheCowsCameHome
(40,170 posts)trust me on that prediction.
Bibliovore
(185 posts)The mother shaved the rest of the child's hair off.
allan01
(1,950 posts)reminds me the time when my sis gave me a mohawk without my consent, i as suspended until the hair grew back. ot why do we need spell check in web browsers when they dont work. i fell the pain of the young man. i wonder how the school district would react to what was called a " morman" haircut , shaved around the ears and top left on ?
NaturalHigh
(12,778 posts)but I enjoyed reading it.
blackspade
(10,056 posts)I had an 'actual' Mohawk in high school and no administrator said shit.
My kids go to school with kids with Mohawks today.
Who hires these fools?
FSogol
(45,699 posts)CentralMass
(15,265 posts)eggplant
(3,933 posts)Why would someone's hairstyle keep me from hiring them?
blackspade
(10,056 posts)But, what does that have to do with the OP, or anything for that matter?
NaturalHigh
(12,778 posts)tblue37
(65,803 posts)NaturalHigh
(12,778 posts)Really short. We would show up to football practice the first day with new haircuts. Our coach would single out the ones whose hair wasn't short enough and send them to get more shorn off.
tblue37
(65,803 posts)their ears. Fear of hippies, you know.
NaturalHigh
(12,778 posts)I have it on good authority that they've killed everyone since Jesus.
Ilsa
(61,735 posts)They thought strict dress codes would keep teens off drugs and girls unpregnant in my area. If only they had handed out condoms, half of my high school class wouldn't have been parents by age 18.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)NaturalHigh
(12,778 posts)I doubt that the McMinnville TN schools are known for being too liberal.
paleotn
(18,184 posts)...Liberals are about as common in Warren County as hen's teeth. More than likely it's an authoritarian type, high on their perceived importance but low on cognitive ability. Sounds like the prototypical southern, neoconservative to me.
RandiFan1290
(6,280 posts)"They have every right to enforce their own codes, no matter how trivial they might seem."
You don't get to change the rules just because you have a military fetish
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)It was the mother who aggrsssively promoted this to the media as an attack on patriotism and the military and veterans. Outrage ensued...
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)NaturalHigh
(12,778 posts)Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)NaturalHigh
(12,778 posts)I'm not playing the whole "hates the military" or "unpatriotic" angle, and I'm not planning to practice up on my Seppuku because you don't like it.
As I said before, thanks kindly. Now goodbye.
Adrahil
(13,340 posts)Suspending a kid for getting a high and tight is RIDICULOUS. When I was a kid, me and almost all my friends got high and tights every spring and wore them all summer, and then let our hair grow come October.
There is nothing extreme about a high and tight. It is a traditional haircut.
Suspending a kid over that hair cut hands ammunition to right wing dumb asses. Don't give them free ammo. It's that simple.
NaturalHigh
(12,778 posts)Inkfreak
(1,695 posts)What foolishness. No thanks. Fox RWers and this principle can go fuck themselves. I've had a high-n-tight since I was a kid. Best haircut ever.
treestar
(82,383 posts)Exactly. While DU is busy seeing principal control freak authoritarian, the same person is being deemed a liberal by freepers.
NaturalHigh
(12,778 posts)Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)mopinko
(70,747 posts)damn. we thought we won this battle, and here we are again.
how the hell can a military cut be extreme? i do not get it. it's a fucking crew cut. i thought that we the required cut for the uptight right.
NaturalHigh
(12,778 posts)Shrike47
(6,913 posts)Cool. A lot of people are going to find their hair, piercings, tattoos and jewelry are right out! What, you mean I don't get to control everybody? What kind of a deal is that?
In case it's unclear, I think the principal blew it.
alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)Chicago1980
(1,968 posts)these so called "Patriots" would know the difference between a Mohawk and a Military haircut.
Savannahmann
(3,891 posts)If the boy were to shave off the rest of his hair, he'd look like a skin head, which is synonymous with racism and sexism and violence against minorities. Out of curiousity, would the Principle have an objection to that?
NaturalHigh
(12,778 posts)stone space
(6,498 posts)Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)NaturalHigh
(12,778 posts)Actually I won't.
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)NaturalHigh
(12,778 posts)Smarmie Doofus
(14,498 posts)>>>Are they only hiring jackasses as principals these days? >>>>>
The longer answer is "well, *generally* YES."
The entire field ( education) has been radically dumbed-down starting w. GWB and NCLB in the early 2000s and then taking off like a rocket ship in 2009.
Our rulers ( who have never used and WILL never use public schools themselves) have determined that they want trained monkeys as classroom teachers and Nazi comandantes in charge of the buildings... and of the monkeys.
VA_Jill
(10,177 posts)cannot tell the difference between a mohawk and a military "high and tight", then he needs to get his sorry ass back to school.....NOW. Because he is obviously too stupid to be the "principal teacher" which is what "principal" signifies.
sabbat hunter
(6,845 posts)that can be mistaken for a mohawk, although mohawks are generally narrower than that.
only way to fix it really is to shave the rest off and let it grow back
abelenkpe
(9,933 posts)the one about continued pollution from fracking in drought ridden CA.
NaturalHigh
(12,778 posts)Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)And some DUers are defending this policy?
NaturalHigh
(12,778 posts)Afraid we might seem too "conservative" apparently. Since when is it conservative to acknowledge when an authority figure acts like a jackass?
Cryptoad
(8,254 posts)there is probably more to the story that they are reporting,,,,,,,,
Quackers
(2,256 posts)NaturalHigh
(12,778 posts)I'd probably tell him to get off my lawn!
redgreenandblue
(2,088 posts)If your teacher tells you to drop the stupid haircut and get with the program you do it. Whining to the media about a disciplinary measure has "special snowflake" written all over it, which is the opposite of "military".
I imagine the irony is lost to the parents.
Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)redgreenandblue
(2,088 posts)Just to point out the irony of someone attempting to make a "people don't respect the military enough" point by demanding an exception to a rule that applies to everyone equally and creating drama in the media.
(to be clear: I think this is mostly the work of the parents)
RandySF
(61,712 posts)I once notice a mohawk on someone and he mentioned that it's common in the military now. It was a sign if rebellion when I was a kid.