Beauty

[ccassaday]

The problem here isn't teaching kids rules. It's that this is a unenforceable rule. How do you tell if it is dyed or their natural. Pink or green I can see but to use this girl as an example is ridiculous.

[kzeks]

On 8/16/2014 KateChopin said:

Wow. Charlie Brown's girlfriend better watch out! And Claire Danes from "My So-Called Life". And Rita Hayworth. Ridiculous.

It will be nice when schools can get back to education and not have to worry about politicians making pronouncements, teachers carrying guns (!), and ridiculous, unnecessary testing, etc. Talk about distractions.

I think it's making people a tad crazy, as evidenced by this.

I believe both Teachers & students should be tested ....

The worst thing you can do to students is give them a

Teacher who does not know anything about teaching

and cannot pass an exam that is given to high schoolers..

[JavaQueen]

Good grief is right.

It reminds me of a children's book years ago. (In the age of perms, curly hair was frowned upon and it had to be kept tidy by pulling back.)

I went to a school with a dress code. No shorts, sun dresses, tanks or bare midriffs. No facial hair on the guys. Oh, guys' hair couldn't hit longer than the color. No Tshirs with logos. No tattoos. And skirts couldn't be too short or they would make you sit in the office and make your mom bring you decent clothes.. I had friends who were marked down for having dreds and natural hair. Boring? Yeah. Good high school. You betcha. But the red. hair thing is way out there.

One reason kids have the attention span of ants (or is it gnats?): electronics, internet and social media. No wonder it's easy to distract them. Research has been done on this.

Regarding the hair:

How archaic! Red hair has been frowned upon for centuries. It was the mark of "ladies of the evening" and no self-respecting woman would have red hair. Of course, back then if you were a natural redhead, who would know? Women kept their heads covered until the mid-19th century.

So here is 2014 and they picking at the girl's hair? Be glad she wants to go to school. The kids are probably used to it and don't notice.

[maestra]

On 8/17/2014 Kzeks said:

On 8/16/2014 KateChopin said:

Wow. Charlie Brown's girlfriend better watch out! And Claire Danes from "My So-Called Life". And Rita Hayworth. Ridiculous.

It will be nice when schools can get back to education and not have to worry about politicians making pronouncements, teachers carrying guns (!), and ridiculous, unnecessary testing, etc. Talk about distractions.

I think it's making people a tad crazy, as evidenced by this.

I believe both Teachers & students should be tested ....

The worst thing you can do to students is give them a

Teacher who does not know anything about teaching

and cannot pass an exam that is given to high schoolers..

Teachers are tested-it's called state certification boards. In CT I had to pass 2 separate sets, with exams in Gen. Ed. and MS Social Studies. You also have to have a Master's degree in CT to be certified.

[baby 2]

Colors on the internet don't always reflect the true color. Just think of clothes you buy from QVC - a lot of times the color looks totally different on the website than what you receive. So we really don't know how bright and distracting her hair really is.

[ManolosandChoos]

On 8/17/2014 maestra said:

On 8/17/2014 Kzeks said:

On 8/16/2014 KateChopin said:

Wow. Charlie Brown's girlfriend better watch out! And Claire Danes from "My So-Called Life". And Rita Hayworth. Ridiculous.

It will be nice when schools can get back to education and not have to worry about politicians making pronouncements, teachers carrying guns (!), and ridiculous, unnecessary testing, etc. Talk about distractions.

I think it's making people a tad crazy, as evidenced by this.

I believe both Teachers & students should be tested ....

The worst thing you can do to students is give them a

Teacher who does not know anything about teaching

and cannot pass an exam that is given to high schoolers..

Teachers are tested-it's called state certification boards. In CT I had to pass 2 separate sets, with exams in Gen. Ed. and MS Social Studies. You also have to have a Master's degree in CT to be certified.

And after that...nothing. Tenure...you can't be touched.

[maestra]

Tenure no longer exists in many states, your contract must be earned yearly. That is why there are teacher strikes and demonstrations in union school districts-when tenure is removed. I've never had tenure in all my years teaching b/c the districts were not union. Its pretty obvious when a poster has an axe to grind about the education system. I'm just trying to clarify the day to day.

[kzeks]

On 8/17/2014 maestra said:

On 8/17/2014 Kzeks said:

On 8/16/2014 KateChopin said:

Wow. Charlie Brown's girlfriend better watch out! And Claire Danes from "My So-Called Life". And Rita Hayworth. Ridiculous.

It will be nice when schools can get back to education and not have to worry about politicians making pronouncements, teachers carrying guns (!), and ridiculous, unnecessary testing, etc. Talk about distractions.

I think it's making people a tad crazy, as evidenced by this.

I believe both Teachers & students should be tested ....

The worst thing you can do to students is give them a

Teacher who does not know anything about teaching

and cannot pass an exam that is given to high schoolers..

Teachers are tested-it's called state certification boards. In CT I had to pass 2 separate sets, with exams in Gen. Ed. and MS Social Studies. You also have to have a Master's degree in CT to be certified.

Congrats to you...!

You are the kind of Teacher we want in our schools...

[sidsmom]

Its not about the particular color red.....it's ANY color that's distracting. Amazed the # of posters on this thread that didn't 'get' that. Ironic. Maybe that's the best piece of evidence proving we need to enforce the rules...too many people can't read & decipher a simple news article.

[sharlee]

ANY color that's distracting, huh? As a youngster, my own natural color was extremely close to Hayleigh's, so I can't help but wonder what they would have done in my case. That's probably why this is bugging me so much. Funny, it was never an issue when I was in school. I was by no means universally beloved, but not one of my classmates ever claimed that I was preventing them from learning something, or creating a bad environment of some kind.

It saddens me to think that apparently today's teens - at any rate, the ones in Alabama - are such pea-brains that a classmate with bright red hair would prevent them from learning in a classroom. I personally think JavaQueen was onto something - redheads historically have been discriminated against, for various reasons, and this is, after all, the deep south.