Parents, School Tangle Over Boy's Long Locks

[Tuco]

Are boys allowed to wear dresses to public school in your area?   

I've always wanted that option, myself, but have you priced a kilt lately?

[Balog]

I've always wanted that option, myself, but have you priced a kilt lately?

Why yes, actually.

[Tuco]

Why yes, actually.

Me too.

Anyhow, I don't look good in long hair.  BTDT, lost the follicles.

[Balog]

We have a Utilikilt retail store near where I work, but Neokilt's have an optional holster accessory. :)

[Perd Hapley]

How dare you people jack this thread!! 

[Strings]

>Are boys allowed to wear dresses to public school in your area?<

Ask, and ye shall be beaten over the head:

http://www.xmarksthescot.com/forum/trying_convince-t54438/index.html?t=54438&highlight=Convince

http://www.xmarksthescot.com/forum/kilted_prom-t55811/index.html

Here you go: a young man wishing to wear traditional Scottish dress to the school formal. He was blocked by the principal for homecoming, now he's hoping to get that reconsidered for prom.

It's been my experience that school boards are much like police officers and other public servants: you need to establish limits of what's acceptable behavior. When parents don't establish that, you end up with worse and worse situations.

Yes, the article in the OP is a fairly minor issue. However, I've seen schools where similar is allowed to go (because it's a minor issue), and things get worse as time goes on.

Oh... those interested in wearing a kilt? Check Evilbay: you can find good deals on there (but know what you're looking for: feel free to PM me)

[Lee]

Jeez....I thought schools stopped being hair Nazis about thirty years ago.  That would have been considered a conservative haircut when I was in high school.  I can understand grooming rules that forbid real distractions or safety concerns...but that's not a contender in my book.

[280plus]

hair Nazis

I grew up under the rule of hair Nazis. Constant battle... 

[Levant]

Am I missing something here?  Where's the outrage at the school trying to tell the parents or family how to live?  It isn't a question of whether we agree with the lifestyle, it's a question of whether the school has the right to say anything. 

In Germany they first came for the Communists,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist.
Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew.
Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Catholics,
and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant.
Then they came for me -
and by that time no one was left to speak up.

[Perd Hapley]

Am I missing something here? 

You apparently missed half the thread.  There was plenty of hand-wringing about the school "telling them how to live."