Okay, the kid was in the wrong for violating the school's policies, and the school administrators were idiots for enforcing their policies in such an hair-brained manner.

Having said that, I think that one of the nice things that I remember about being a teenager was having the freedom to wear stupid clothes and adopt stupid hair styles without having to worry about it.

Give kids a little freedom. It doesn't hurt and life will take away those privileges soon enough.

Sheldon's stepmother told KSLA News 12 it wasn't the rule that she disagreed with, but rather how the school handled the situation.

If she didn't disagree with the rule, why did she allow him to go to school with the designs on his head?

"Grooming violations"

...for when school administrators want to show you that you're a piece of meat that they own.

Seriously, I don't see why a teacher farking a student is so wrong. We already let administrators do pretty much anything they want under the guise of "ZERO TOLERANCE!"

The principal, who started her first year at the school this August, said she was told by another faculty member that they had handled the problem with a marker in the past.

And apparently thought it was an OK idea?

"Oh, we never use band-aids. We've always used the soldering iron from the janitor's closet."

Pocket Ninja: If she didn't disagree with the rule, why did she allow him to go to school with the designs on his head?

Maybe she/they were unaware of it.

I thought those were only supposed to be used for eyebrows

A pic of the teachers in question.

Was talking to the lead singer of DINK (years and years ago) and he was saying he was just getting over being "violently ill for a week" because he wrote Giant messages on his body before a show (lots) then performed/sweated, and his skin absorbed the ink and poisoned him.

The principal, who started her first year at the school this August, said she was told by another faculty member that they had handled the problem with a marker in the past.



/Bazinga!

Was he drunk and lying on the couch? Because then it might make sense.

Pocket Ninja: If she didn't disagree with the rule, why did she allow him to go to school with the designs on his head?

She can't read.

AbbeySomeone: What if the kid had been blonde?

Yellow highlighter.

SlightlyManic: AbbeySomeone: What if the kid had been blonde?

Yellow highlighter.

Ah, the Calvin and Hobbes approach!

All this concern over how kids have their hair and what they wear. Maybe schools should be paying more attention to if our children are learning. Hint: they're not.

Walker: Hint: they're not.

Sure they are. They're learning to distrust authority figures.

"You touch-a my hair, I break-a your face!"

/old school

Does this mean kids are allowed to shave their heads and draw in whatever dress code appropriate hair style with a permanet marker? Draw in a comb over or Hitler mustaches for all!

Walker: All this concern over how kids have their hair and what they wear. Maybe schools should be paying more attention to if our children are learning. Hint: they're not.

Learning? What's that?

Oh, you mean they should be paying more attention to making the children pass the standardized tests that get the school federal funding.

Using a sharpie to fill in the gap was wrong.
What they should have done was buzzed all his hair down to the scalp so the design would be gone.

Oh, boo hoo. It's a Sharpie. That ink is about as permanent as a salt pillar in the Amazon rainforest. Comes out with any sort of everyday solvent, like rubbing alcohol.

That style isn't so bad.

At least he didn't look like he accidentally stuck his head into a golf ball dimpler.

Is this a "before" picture or an "after" picture? I think I see an intricate pattern in the hair. I would presume the attention-whoring parents took this picture when he came home and went sobbing to the local news. Shave his head and be done with it and stop sending your kid to school looking like a gang member.

When I was in school, the only rules for hair were that it needed to appear clean and well-groomed, and that beards, moustaches, and goatees were not permitted. Why do the administrators care if kids show up with lines in his hair?