Back in 2002 Neoflux reported on Backwards Rules For Backwards Hats:
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This is what counts as good news in the fight against zero tolerance policies: Former student gets suspension reduced to 45 days for wearing his hat backwards at a baseball game (and what about the catcher wearing a helmet backwards under his helmet?). He was initially suspended for 6 months after the principal because a backwards hat is "gang related". The reason for the "rule" is a real kicker:
"We've always had a school policy to address patrons wearing backwards hats, because of an incident that occurred several years ago involving some of our athletes on a road trip," Byrum told the hearing committee. On this road trip, several Calvin players were verbally and physically accosted by a group of adolescents wearing backwards ball caps.
So if that incident had been skinheads messing w/ their students - they would have banned shaved heads? Or if they had been accosted by a group of Latinos - would they have banned Latinos from the baseball field?
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Another reason to homeschool, so if your children want to they can wear their hats backwards.
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2 comments:
Oh lord!
As you said, another great reason to homeschool: to exercise your rights in individual dress.
These things are so difficult. On the one hand, it is ridiculous to suspend a kid for wearing a ball cap backwards. Zero tolerance gets a little out of hand.
On the other hand, I observed and helped in a school with gang activity and we all were trained in spotting gang signs. Weird stuff like writing on one side of the body, or rubber bands serving no purpose dangling in the hair.
The things on their own rarely were anything you call wrong, but they were recognized gang signs and they contributed to a great deal of tension in the classroom.
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