... how is high and tight against school regs for boys haircuts? I want to read this school regulation.
I don't even think of that as a specific military haircut, because so many guys have it as just a standard guy haircut.
I'm pretty sure half the little boys I went to school with had that or similar haircuts. The other standard was the bowl cut. I imagine parents of little boys often take advantage of being able to chop it all off and avoid the hassle of hairstyling an active child.
God knows my mother often got mine chopped as short as she could get away with in order to avoid the battle of getting it combed out and acceptable for public.