Ohio School Suspends Boy Over Mohawk

"Changing the hairstyle is not an option"

Oh yes it is. It's not all about you, Ms. Barile. There are other students in the class and your son's mohawk is a distraction. I'm glad the school is standing firm.

Ray_D wrote:

"Changing the hairstyle is not an option"
Oh yes it is. It's not all about you, Ms. Barile. There are other students in the class and your son's mohawk is a distraction. I'm glad the school is standing firm.

Suspended over a hair cut? My god this country has bottomed-out.

as for Ray_D your pathetic a 6 year old boy with a mohawk is deffinately not a distraction n who are you to say anything? are you the board of Ed? if you have any kids how would you feel about that situation. You need to get over your self unless your one of those brown nose'n got your face up school faculty's ass type of people. Overall this situation is ridiculous- go figure its in ohio!

Im sure it be perfectly fine if a 2nd grader came to school wearing a "im a gay 7yearold" printed t shirt and it wouldnt be a distraction to the school. That would be perfectly fine.

The administration at this school needs to be suspended. I hardly think that the haircut would create a distraction for the children. Maybe for the busybody administrator but not for the kids.

Mom, when you enroll the kid into the next school, make sure that you give him a clown face,with the hawk.Its a good thing...

Where's the ACLU???

"Changing the hairstyle is not an option, he really likes it"

If this doesn't spell white trash what does. If this 6 year old kid has that much control over his mother she should probably save a lot of time and just enroll him in a reform school now.

So there saying this kid has been a distraction to the class for 6 months. Gimme a break. Lets teach these kids at a young age that self- expression and tolerance is unacceptable.

Whether anyone thinks it is right or wrong, it is the schools policy. The article stated that she was warned in the past about it, and continued to allow him a mohawk. If I thought my son was being treated unfairly, I'd have changed his school after the first warning. Sometimes no means exactly no.

His parents must be real a**holes.

I don't know why I couldn't post the work s.p.i.k.e.d. but that's why it has the periods in it.

wait a minute..what about thugs wearing pants to low? if you do this to this kid..you better get fair all around...

i beleive in morals..but schools celebrate pagan hollidays,teach sex ,and abortion,and now evolution..and they flip over a kids spike hair...lol..what hypocrits they look like to society..

schools worship the flag before god also..

When I first saw the picture, I thought he had ringworm and they shaved his head. What an botched looking haircut - parents must have bought clippers at a yard sale and tried them out on him.

Way to have your priorities straight there, guys.

We can't read at a level that's competitive with the industrialized world, but we can freak out over a mohawk.

It was MADE into a distraction by people who freak out about haircuts. Small-minded people in charge of small people with minds.

Damn shame.

I'm a teacher, and I'll admit that an unusual haircut or hair coloring is only a distraction for a day or two. After a week, the kids don't even notice it anymore. We ban obscene t-shirts and inappropriate clothing, but the kids are pretty much able to wear their hair any way their parents will let them.

However, this school has every right to have a dress code that includes hair styles/colors. School officials have to do what's they feel is best for all children. School is supposed to be a working and learning environment. I tell my students that an adult's job is to go to work and a kid's job to go to school. I can do whatever I want with my appearance outside of work, but at work I have to adhere to a certain standard. If you were to show up for most job interviews with a mohawk, odds are that you aren't going to get the job. If this kid wants to sport this haircut during the summer, great. However, it's not allowed in his school.

The part that I have the biggest problem with is the message this woman is sending her child: If you don't agree with a rule, then it's okay to break it. If she didn't agree with the rule, she could have adhered to it while at the same time fighting to change it. I fear for what will become of this child if this is the message he's being taught at five years old.

Lets get realistic! What the hell is this country coming too?

marko wrote:

i beleive in morals..but schools celebrate pagan hollidays,teach sex ,and abortion,and now evolution..and they flip over a kids spike hair...lol..what hypocrits they look like to society..

1) It's getting to the point where no holidays can be celebrated, pagan or otherwise. We do not celebrate any holidays in our school. Lots of schools don't celebrate birthday's anymore, either.

2) Schools do not teach sex. Nobody gets up on the desk and demonstrates. Schools teach sex ed. Do you know how many kids aren't getting sex ed at home? All of the information they receive about sex comes from the media. It's completely unhealthy. We have a problem with teenage pregnancy and teenagers spreading STDs in this country as it is. Can you imagine how much worse it would be if schools weren't teaching sex ed? I don't personally teach sex ed, however even if the fact that abortions exist is taught in school, no school would ever, ever suggest having one or insinuate that it is an acceptable method of birth control.

3) Evolution is a scientific theory that has a lot of evidence to support it. It is an area of science that needs to be taught to students.