Eight-Grader's Fancy Hair Cut is a "Gang Symbol" to School Administrators

Jay Cowell of River Road Middle School got a fancy haircut with a star, which he said is "for God and all the stuff he made on the earth."

But the school officials saw it differently, and declared the his haircut a "gang symbol" and suspended the eight-grader until he got it all shorn off.

Did the school do the right thing? Or are they just being a fuddy duddy? http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/weird/Boy_Suspended_Over__Gang_Symbol__Haircut_All__National_.html [Flash clip]


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LOOK YALL THIS MISUNDERSTANDING DOESNT HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH RACISM SOOO CAN YALL PLEASE STOP TRYINGFIT THAT SUBJECT IN THIS PARTICULAR SUBJECT!! ITS LIKE A PUZZLE THAT DOESNT FIT SOOO PLEASE GET OVER THE RACISM CAUSE IF THEY WERE RACIST I BELEIVE NO AFRICAN AMERICAN CHILDREN WOULD BE GOING TO THAT SCHOOL AND IF YOU LOOK AROUND THATS ALL THATS THERE AT THAT SCHOOL SOOO SHUT-UP!!!
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okay Rozeilla it so happens that the person who suspended this child is the same color sooo YOU need to get ur FACT straight before you post anything else up!! if u dnt know nothing dnt assume anything or be jumping to conclusions thank-you very much and this goes out too everybody who posted up stupid comments and dnt no not a peice of imformation!!!
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OKAY I UNDERSTAND THAT UR SAYN THAT THE SCHOOL IS TRYING TO MAKE THE STUDENTS GROW UP FASTER, BUT I LOST YOU WHEN YOU SAID LET THEM DO LITTLE THINGS!!! IF YOU LET THEM DO LITTLE THINGS NOW THEY'RE GONNA TAKE THE LITTLE THINGS TOOOO SERIOUS AND THEN BECOME PEOPLE THAT THEY ARE NOT FOR EXAMPLE A GANG MEMBER SOOO NO LIL THINGS SHOULD BE ALLOWED AT ALL!!!
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well sweetie they did give out imformation(before school began) on what the school expects the children to wear and to not wear, and they made sure the parents knew that if their child walked into the school doors with any gang related signs anywhere on their body they will be suspended!!!!!!! so actually thats their warning right there!!! Plus the school principals were being fair and gave MANY STUDENTS up to THREE DAYS!! to take away or make it disappear somehow sooooooooo THERE WAS NO EXCUSE @ ALL YOU FEEL ME!!
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