School Makes 7-Year-Old Shave Off His Military Style Haircut
Adam Stinnett is a seven-year-old boy who has an older brother in the Army that he looks up to. Why not show his support by being just like him? Unfortunately, some principal on a high horse at Bobby Ray Memorial Elementary School in McMinnville, TN decided that the young boy could not honor his brother. The egregious reasoning? His military style haircut was a distraction.
From FOX 17:
A military style haircut earned seven-year-old Adam Stinnett a trip to the principal’s office at Bobby Ray Memorial Elementary School in McMinnville.
Adam’s older brother Justin is a soldier who has served in Afghanistan, so little brother decided he too wanted a “high and tight” hairstyle. But the school called it a distraction and forced his mom to shave the child’s head after sending a note home with Adam.
What kind of America-hating principal did this school hire? Adam’s mom even explained to the school that his haircut was not a mohawk and is a military haircut. The school didn’t care and told him to not come back until his hair was cut.
Adam’s mother Amy says she told the school the haircut was not a mohawk, that it was a military haircut. “Well, we’re not a military school and that it has to be cut or he cannot return to school until it is,” was the response Amy says was given to her by the school. “It broke my heart. It pretty much crushed a seven-year-old’s dreams” Amy stated.
Congrats on crushing a little boy’s dreams. How does it feel? Your school is even named in honor of a soldier killed in Vietnam! Have some decency. The school’s director did not want to comment but did point out that the district does not have any sort of rule about not having a military-style haircut. Why do schools even bother doing this? It only causes negative publicity.
As the great Randy Marsh once said, “I thought this was America.”
[via FOX 17]
Christ this is nauseating
11 years ago at 11:37 amWanna know what else is fucked up? The school the kid attends, Bobby Ray Memorial Elementary, is named after a Vietnam Vet from the same city that was KIA. Moreover, the school district said they don’t have an official policybanning military style haircuts and that it’s up to the principle to decide. I hope that principle gets hit by a bus.
11 years ago at 1:31 pmHoly shit…this would seriously be like a principal suspending a kid for shaving their head for a cancer-based charity. Truly upsetting.
11 years ago at 3:02 pmThe pussification of America continues, thanks to idiots like this. What an absolute joke.
11 years ago at 11:44 amThe pussy generation ahead of us is a joke.
11 years ago at 12:21 pmI like your way of thinking. We author our own fate in terms of whether we allow the pussification to continue or slowly turn the tide back.
11 years ago at 8:34 pmI don’t know why people are down voting you, because you’re right. Its our responsibility to let people know this is america, and shit like that will not be tolerate as long as men like us live here.
11 years ago at 10:34 pmWhat the actual fuck? Since when can schools tell kids how to cut their hair?
11 years ago at 11:45 amSince I’ve been in school, there has always been a bullshit policy on haircuts. Commies
11 years ago at 12:23 pmAs far as I can recall, they were only for “distracting haircuts”, i.e. green mohawks, patterns buzzed in, etc. I’d have expected a state like Tennessee to be a little less idiotic with their policies.
11 years ago at 1:20 pm“a state like Tennessee to be a little less idiotic”. Is this a joke? You’re talking about Tennessee here. They are not exactly a national leader in terms of intelligence.
11 years ago at 2:55 pmCome out to California then. Fucking idiots everywhere
11 years ago at 4:09 pmAside the fact they were dishonoring this kid’s military brother, why the hell can a school decide on a kid’s haircut that could’t have been to distracting? I mean if it was a 3 foot spiked mo hawk that kept kids in the back from seeing the chalkboard I’d get it but that is fucking stupid.
11 years ago at 11:51 amIt’s probably more distracting taking the kid out of class and blowing this up all over the news than to let the kid keep his high and tight.
11 years ago at 12:36 pmIs a distraction the new and safer “I’m offended”?
11 years ago at 11:52 amso being patriotic and supporting the troops is “a distraction”…? this is why we’re losing to China.
11 years ago at 11:54 amProbably going to get lapped for this… but the official statement from the school says that the kid’s haircut needs to be “in compliance with our rules.” Not saying that the rules are right, but there were clear ones that were broken.
11 years ago at 11:54 amI don’t buy the story. Probably just some mom that wanted her 15 minutes of fame.
The school said they made him shave it because it was a distraction, and they called it a mohawk, which it clearly is not. There were no specific rules broken.
11 years ago at 11:57 amThe school didn’t say anything. The mom claims that they told her that. Even if she’s right, it’s paraphrasing.
11 years ago at 12:07 pmFirst time the “I’m probably going to get lapped for this” actually got you lapped. Do agree though, being from California makes me embarrassed when things like this happen.
11 years ago at 12:01 pmI am personally offended by liberals. The supreme court has granted full rights to the first amendment to minors so long as it does not harm others. How does a haircut harm others? Oh yeah, it doesn’t…
11 years ago at 11:55 amO don’t fijkong ge tgis at all. Spittin’g on the miltriy and also contokomh kird and tekking them how thui neef to cuy thei hire. This is whu AmericA IS GPINH TO GWLL IN A JSNSBESKET.
11 years ago at 11:55 amI’d say use spell check, but I don’t know if that would have helped here.
11 years ago at 11:58 amI..I..I’ve got nothing.
11 years ago at 12:01 pmAllow me to translate:
I don’t fucking get this at all. Spitting on the military and also [unclear] kids and telling them how to cut their hair. This is why AmericA IS GOING TO HELL IN A HANDBASKET.
Im not sure what the hell happened there, but I think I’ve got the message.
11 years ago at 12:48 pmI’m guessing the word you were unclear about is “controlling”. Not positive though. I’m not really sure what to think of this.
11 years ago at 1:46 pmI am sure this director is on of those people that believe 9/11 was a hoax and we spent too much money in the military.
11 years ago at 12:00 pm