School v. Long-Haird 4 year-old boy

I saw a clip about a little boy who was suspended from his Pre-School for having long-hair.  It's about time too.  We need to purge those hippie children from our youngster's lives and let them know that their social liberalness will not be tollerated.  There are more important things we need to teach our littler students like Tolerance of children who act-out with bad behavior or the practice of Second Chances to tikes who are physically & emotionally violent to others.


You see, when children are this young, they need to learn that it is NOT okay to be a kid.  We need to teach our children standards of the work-place now so they can start working in serious careers in the next two decades.  Heck, with the current removal of Music & Art programs, and soon Physical Education and maybe even Reccess in the future, we'll catch up with the Asians by next decade!!  


On a serious note, there are far greater things for a school to drop a student, let alone pre-school student over than how long his hair is.  I live in the great state of Washington...home of Seattle (a statement in itself).  Here, I've seen preschoolers with Mohawks (holla nephew!!), green hair, and afro's in classes, school yearbooks, and class photos.  It's not keeping them from learning anything.  It's not harming anyone.  We need to let kids be kids.  We only have so long in our lives to use our HUGE burst of juvinile energy before we become over stressed by life, depression, dire issues, and drama.  Once those things become our main concerns, we loose any energy we may have had for fun things in our life until we have children of our own.  And even then, we tack on more energy tax expendatures on things like feeding scheduals, playdates, the actually chasing down of said kids, and any other small details of their lives so that they may remember the fun times and events they did as a youngin'.


Having said this, I don't want anyone to be confused on one thing.  Children do need to learn what is appropriate, morals, virtues, and manners.  But don't bar them from the fun little things that don't hurt him and aren't healthy for him.  Common sense, folks.


As for the 4 year old boy...the school reasoned with the mother by allowing the boy to either cut his hair or have it braided.  The mother said "No" to both.  The child is caucasion, as is his mother.  Since white people have far more delicate and sensitive skin than people of darker skin coloring, she told them to braid his hair would make it bleed.  She did, however said she's be more than willing to put it up in a ponytail where it is out of his eyes.  The school is still refusing to let the boy back in.  The mother is still fighting.