School suspends cancer survivor teen over hair he plans to donate

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Locks of Love is a scam, they make families pay for the wigs and sell most of their hair... Pantene Beautiful Lengths on the other hand has been around since only 2006, and has already surpassed Locks of Love in amount of wigs made.

this is a PUBLIC school,not a private one. who said it's not kept right. the kids go to school with their butts hanging out with extra pants, but wait their usually black so nothing is said to them. 2 sets of rules

This is ridiculous! Seriously! he fought an enormous battle which gives him much more insight and most of the time more maturity than other kids his age! The school is very wrong in the way they are handling the situation! My son also beat leukemia and even if he wasn't doing it to donate his hair to locks of love. These kids LOSE ALL THEIR HAIR and have to be mocked and made fun of in public for looking different! Don't believe me? ASK He should absolutely be able to donate his hair, he knows how it feels to go thru that and be bald! He knows what its like to not only be sick but look different than everyone else and be self conscious about it. He knows what its like to wonder if you are going to live. LET HIM GROW HIS HAIR AND DONATE IT SO THAT MAYBE SOME OTHER KID DOESN'T GO THRU THE HUMILIATION OF BEING STARED AT! Where is the petition?? I am going to sign it right now!!

If he would like to grow his hair, let him. Defining a student by the neatness and tidiness of his hair is a bit controlling. The school is suggesting that a certain hairstyle can alter the social status of a student among his peers if it is longer or different. If that is the case, the school is on a power trip. The boy wants to grow his hair long, big deal. He is old enough to make his own decisions when it comes to his appearance. He's also doing it for all the right reasons. If the school and society judges people and their status according to their fashion, what does that honestly say about us as a whole? Seriously.

Cut your hair, hippie.

I think if a boy wants long hair, then who cares. Howabout they compromise...let him have the hair, but it must be pulled out of his face and neat. Maybe it would inspire others to do the same. Sometimes what is "right" doesn't fit into the rule book, but authority figures need to realize that they are not dictators and it is a good thing when young people make decisions, especially this kind of decision. Young people are the future.

One has to have a degree to be an educator. This incident proves with a fair amount of certainty that possessing a degree is not an indication of intelligence or common sense.

Also, I love that people will jump to the support of a kid who wants to go to the junior prom with her girlfriend, which is against school rules, then say to this kid "the school has rules, get over it". Either you want to let kids "stand for a cause" or you don't. There shouldn't be double-standards on who gets to stand up against something they don't agree with. He is handling it in a mature, effective way. They are trying to get something in place that says people can grow out their hair IF they sign something saying they are donating it AFTER researching the cause they'd like to donate it to. It doesn't get much more "fair" than that. I hope he manages to get that put into place.

When I was growing up, my father was one of the most straight-laced and strict people I knew. Twenty years later, when my mother told me he was growing his hair out for Locks of Love, I couldn't believe it until I saw it. The old man has softened considerably since I was a kid, and the proof was in the good natured responses his four children got by way of reply after ribbing him for being a "hippie" 30 years too late. Folks, this is a charity worth supporting.

Rules in High School are out of control atm, but so are the kids themselves. These rules they put down, be it mandatory uniforms or hair-length, are their perception of how to fix the problem of 'unruly' kids. But the root issue isn't that kids are 'bad' but that their families don't have the time they need to teach their kids right from wrong, to discipline them when they cross that line. Today, in most families both the man and woman of the home must work to make it, that leaves kids with who to teach them? This is just a small piece of a larger puzzle, one you could see if only you could step-back and look at the entirety of everything happening.

no wonder our kids are so messed up...where are the prorities in our educational system?

This school is just one of many that have rules in place telling a student how they should look. It's hard enough having the peer pressure of those around you trying to make you something you aren't, the school shouldn't be adding to that. I support his efforts and hope he achieves his goal.

It is simple! "The school's student handbook requires that boys' hair be, "clean, neat, free of unnatural or distracting colors, off the collar, off the ears and out of the eyes." It doesn't say a thing about having it any special length. Keep it clean, pull it back into a pony tail while in school, cut a mall amount for bangs if you feel that you need to; but you will follow the guideline and still do a good deed-the legal way! Your deed is good, reasoing awesome, but show them that you have the brains to out smart them.

my daughter is also a cancer survivor. When she was 19 she had a 20 lb. ovarian tumor removed. She has donated her hair twice since then. In the town we live in one of our county officials donates HIS hair every year during our Relay for Life because one of his daughters is a cancer survivor. In my opinion the principle should grow his and donate it in support of this young man.

Suspended for long hair...really? That happened to me in high school too...in the late 1960's!

Oh please! He should leave that school immediately. Any institution that cares about looks more than intentions should be shut down.

What is this? Does the school really believe that monotoring the length of a student's hair they are maintaining law and order? At at age when youth is more open-minded than they will ever be again, and the school has an opportunity to connect and teach something of value to carry these kids through life's bumps, the school board suspends this boy for not obeying their orders. Now here's the rub: This boy IS thinking, and he is thinking about someone other than himself and anyone who has raised kids knows that in itself, is an accomplishment. So we have a school board punishing him for being an original person, a thinker, a unique one who decides he wants to give back to others in need. He has found a beautiful, inexpensive way (kids are always short on money) to help others and for this he gets his wings clipped. I think it would be great if the entire student body or as many as are moved to contribute, be allowed to grow their hair long so they too can donate to cancer patients who have lost their hair. They would be following this boy's example. Good for him! I'm all in!

I'd be willing to bet 99.99% of the idiots saying "rules are rules" routinely break the 55mph speed limit.

lost my gf last summer to ovarian cancer and since then i have not cut my hair with the intention of donating to this charity. keep up the good work little man.