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| Thread ID: 137324 | 2014-06-23 07:30:00 | School Boy forced to leave school for having long hair. | mzee (3324) | PC World Chat |
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| 1377775 | 2014-06-28 06:38:00 | www.nzherald.co.nz A St John's College board of trustees member who led the decision to suspend student Lucan Battison is refusing to comment following the discovery of a photo of him as a long-haired student of Lucan's age - while attending the same school. Haha, that's the best part. They should really ban rat-tails. Now that's a hair crime. I agree. Well, I don't really: If someone wants one good luck to them, but I do personally find that they look awful. |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1377776 | 2014-06-28 09:11:00 | Even after the outcome where the school acted illegally? Even though his hair met the schools very vague so called rules. So do you teach your children to roll over and to not question an adults decision even though wrong? What the principal has done is a form of bullying that schools are meant to stamp out. Now what if this was you in your current job and your employer suddenly changed the way a rule was interpreted. Would you suddenly roll over without question. Or would this be a breach of your employment contract? My employer does just this all the time. It's roll over and accept it, or look for work elsewhere. Some things aren't worth scrapping over, and something as silly as a hair style / length is one such example (easy for a bald guy to say). |
Paul.Cov (425) | ||
| 1377777 | 2014-06-28 09:25:00 | Well, I'd like to get a few days off each month whenever I choose to complain of menstrual cramps, but it just won't work for me. There are ways that women and men are simply not the same, and we are silly to pretend otherwise. The weekends you enjoy off work are there only because they are a cultural tradition, much as differing hairstyles / differing rights for men and women have also been traditional for centuries. Sure, these things should all be open to change over time. It is not however up to one spoilt schoolboy to choose to be the one to change those traditions. Once he gets over himself he's just as likely to suddenly show up at school one day with a shaved head, having decided that's the style he wants now. Very few of us ever rise to the top of the heap where we dictate rules to others. He would be wise to learn to be more humble and accepting of a lesser position... although that sort of reality doesn't really enter into the mind of a schoolboy with his adulthood still ahead of him. Going off on a tangent, I read some interesting research on the gender differences between male and female brains. As you may be aware, women have better listening skills, males have better spatial (3D) skills. You'd expect the women to have bigger areas devoted to listening, and men bigger spatial areas. The result was actually the opposite. Women have bigger spatial processing areas, and men bigger areas devoted to listening comprehension - the hint being that these areas are bigger because we need them to be bigger, not that they are bigger in those that have those particular skills, they're bigger in those needing more of those skills. The brain differences are there to make us more equal in how we function overall. There were numerous other such differences highlighted in the research - I simply can't remember all the examples (and the ones given may be a bit off the mark - my memory is struggling). |
Paul.Cov (425) | ||
| 1377778 | 2014-06-28 09:36:00 | Nah, I'm bald, so that makes me straight. And no offence to Prefect (not that we've ever met), but I'm still looking for someone better. I have a gay friend. It was terrible. His partner was Australian! (no offence Brian (and Aussie friend), this was in jest). I also received most of my professional training from a man who's quite 'big' in Aucklands gay community (or was described so at the time, now long ago). He was a fantastic educator, utterly professional (and Australian as well), and his sexual preferences were never evident in any of the years in which we interacted. I would rate him a far, far better human being than a great many of the heterosexuals in this world. |
Paul.Cov (425) | ||
| 1377779 | 2014-06-28 09:37:00 | Oops, I've been replying without quoting the earlier post. You guys can figure it out if you care. | Paul.Cov (425) | ||
| 1377780 | 2014-06-28 10:03:00 | Sure, these things should all be open to change over time. It is not however up to one spoilt schoolboy to choose to be the one to change those traditions. And why not? If not him, then who? Change has to start somewhere. |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1377781 | 2014-06-28 10:23:00 | And why not? If not him, then who? Change has to start somewhere. True. Change has to beging somewhere, but it's gradual. Very, very gradual. Because in a society of millions to achieve change in beliefs the process has to be gradual. Opinions need to be stated, and others allowed to weigh the discussion and adapt their opinions / biases / prejudices. Those that don't adapt take time to die out. One wooly haired youth is not going to change the opinion of many of the grandpas out there. Certainly not in a week, and likely not in a year, or even a decade. He's just a speck in the evolution of society. Just like the rest of us. He'll be forgotten in a few weeks. |
Paul.Cov (425) | ||
| 1377782 | 2014-06-28 10:56:00 | The lawyers must be gleefully awaiting the cases brought by all those who enrolled their heirs in a school with declared standards, only to find the hairs have overgrown the place. ;) | R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 1377783 | 2014-06-28 20:17:00 | Well, I'd like to get a few days off each month whenever I choose to complain of menstrual cramps, but it just won't work for me . . Ah . I disagree . No-one should have time off every month for such a pathetic reason . Most woman can cope with that, if they can't there is a medical issue . There are several methods for dealing with that, the simplest is to not bother with that at all . . . . . unless you are wanting to breed at the time, then why would you even want to? It's like having a cold every month . . . . gross . Had a friend like that, she whinged for years . . . . . her daughter was the same, problems every month . Her daughter however, took my advice and got rid of the issue for now . |
pctek (84) | ||
| 1377784 | 2014-06-28 23:20:00 | Breaking News: Lord Lucan made it to the School Ball and rumour has it he will take the field alone in the schools remaining 1st Fifteen matches. :clap HERE (www.nzherald.co.nz) |
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