This 4-Year-Old Boy Isnt Allowed At School Because Of His Long Hair

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167. We're going to have to fight all the same battles over again

I'm female so my fight was the ability to wear pants to school. While I was still in high school they never allowed girls to wear jeans - we had to wear "pants suits" purchased from a store. Until my Mom raised hell - she asked why were girls required to take Home Ec if we couldn't wear the clothes we made to school. So then they allowed pants suits if we had made them.

Mom had helped me make a outfit from red brushed denim to wear when I showed my horse - nice boot cut pants with a neat vest. I wore that to school and was sent to the office since "Denim has to be jeans!" The pants were not cut the same as jeans, were not made of the standard at the time blue denim, and the principal decided that the vest made it a pants suit.

On the other hand, my husband and his brothers fought for long hair in their high school in a different town - and they won. By the time my husband graduated, his hair was halfway to his waist. He's cut it twice since - once for court and once for job hunting. It's still long and will remain that way so far as I am concerned.