African-American girl faces expulsion over 'natural hair'

[jberryhill]

200. Understood

But I took you to mean that I was somehow saying this school didn't have an unfettered First Amendment right to do as it damn well pleases.

So, yes, the school does indeed have that right.

And they are exercising it by saying their religion, apparently, doesn't like her hair. Do they have the First Amendment right to believe that? You bet.

So, when you have folks like these parents who voluntarily choose to put their child in a school which, indeed, has the unfettered right to run their school as they see fit, I just don't see the point of complaining.

Do I join a Roman Catholic church and then start agitating, "Hey, why don't we have any statues of Buddha in here?" No. The rational response is "why on earth did you join an RC church if you wanted statues of Buddha in your church?"

Within the belief system of these kinds of schools, the administration is deputized by God his very own self with the discretion to run their school and regulate student appearance as they, and they alone, see fit. It's part of the package deal of sending one's child to one of these cheesy schools.

You know, every time I spend an hour hitting my head with a hammer, I get really bad headaches. This happens about two or three times a week. So, I went to the doctor to get a prescription for something to treat my recurring headaches. You would NOT BELIEVE the condescending advice my doctor gave me when she refused to give me a prescription to treat my headaches. So, yes, it looks like the doctor doesn't care about my headaches at all, and I'm either going to have to keep getting these headaches, or else find a doctor who is willing to help me with them.