Comments on: Public Schools and Their Role in the Watering Down of the Freedoms Guaranteed by the US Constitution http://socyberty.com/education/public-schools-and-their-role-in-the-watering-down-of-the-freedoms-guaranteed-by-the-us-constitution/ Thu, 31 May 2012 12:14:17 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Melia Benjamin http://socyberty.com/education/public-schools-and-their-role-in-the-watering-down-of-the-freedoms-guaranteed-by-the-us-constitution/comment-page-1/#comment-35763 Melia Benjamin Fri, 19 Sep 2008 18:37:15 +0000 http://socyberty.com/education/public-schools-and-their-role-in-the-watering-down-of-the-freedoms-guaranteed-by-the-us-constitution/#comment-35763 My husband and I recently went through an incident where the public school decided they wanted the boys to have a certain haircut for boys so a week before school started this year the school board hastily passed a new dress code stating that boys had to have hair above collar and no longer than mid-ear from which my son did not comply and was told the first day of school that he had less than a week to get it cut. Well to make a long story short we fought the new rule and won because of the right to free speech. <br /> <br /> Yes, I agree we need to be vigilant as parents and not let our kids get walked all over by the adults that are supposedly their to help and educate the childrren. My husband and I recently went through an incident where the public school decided they wanted the boys to have a certain haircut for boys so a week before school started this year the school board hastily passed a new dress code stating that boys had to have hair above collar and no longer than mid-ear from which my son did not comply and was told the first day of school that he had less than a week to get it cut. Well to make a long story short we fought the new rule and won because of the right to free speech.

Yes, I agree we need to be vigilant as parents and not let our kids get walked all over by the adults that are supposedly their to help and educate the childrren.

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