It’s not a story of Robert Peralta, 12, who is suspended from school for a funky or indecent haircut, but this is a plight of many students around the world. Few days back Robert Peralta of Harrison Middle School in Albuquerque, New Mexico, was suspended from school for designing a ‘Zia symbol’ on the back of his head. School administration has accused him as a part of gang and said that they will allow him and other students to have designs on their heads as long as they are not gang, drug, alcohol, or sexually related.
Last year a boy from Rio Grande High School was suspended for making 505 symbol on the back of his head. In 2005, two students from Resaca Middle School in Los Fresnos, Texas, were suspended for braided hairstyles. Their parents blamed the school for violating their heritage as braided hairstyle includes Native American ancestry. Some students suffered tresses stress because of some design or braid, and someone like Donvannah (from Vernon Price Elementary School in Mesquite, 1991) almost shaved his head with his father’s electric mustache clipper and was punished for violating the school district code of appearance. Don’t you think that there should be a same student hair code? The list is never ending for such students who are suspend from school for hairstyle.
If Donvannah was punished for extra short haircut then two boys in Spence Middle School, were punished for keeping long ponytail. And, Robert Peralta’s dilemma is the same as Spence Middle School that their school principal is suspecting them to be a member of some gang. Robert says that he is not a member of any gang and he made that ‘zia’ design on his head because he is part of the school’s wrestling team, and that he got the haircut to represent Albuquerque during a big meet. Now what do you have to about this?
Is it so that school administrators are all about power, control, and tiny bureaucratic minds? Should students be allowed to walk into school premises with their choicest hairstyle or there should follow district school policy?
Whatsoever, you think but for this my reply is that district school code should be followed without discrimination.
Okay! Now I give an end to my this discussion of school hair code and talk something about hairstyle. Apart from all controversies Robert’s ‘zia sun symbol’ (shown in image) haircut appealed a lot to me and if even you liked it then you may get it done with an electronic hair clipper. Its not only this but you can design any damn thing on you head like a haircut and give your hair a new funky look.
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