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Tilted Cat Head
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Location: Manhattan, NY
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Originally Posted by JumpinJesus
Of course, as you well know, focusing on students' appearance is the educational systems' way of ignoring the problem and believing they can solve it by putting the blame for the inadequacies of the system on the students themselves.
It's a case of the powers that be pretending that a superficial solution to a deep-rooted problem will suffice.
The one area where I can agree is in gang-infested areas. Of course, a lot of gangs worked around this by adopting school colors for their gang colors. Which makes fighting educational deficiencies on aesthetic grounds a pointless battle.
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really? yet it seems to work so well for private schools where the grades, graduations, and acceptance to better higher learning (read not community college)....
seems that the superficial solution works pretty well across America.
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Originally Posted by JumpinJesus
why is it not okay to have a mohawk in math class?
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for these reasons:
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Originally Posted by shesus
I can completely understand why this letter was sent home. For one, the kids are focusing more on what they look like than learning. Second, they don't do this by themselves. They ask their friends how they look. Third, you have the 'good' kids who are tattling that the other kids are not doing what they should be doing. What a waste of time and a huge distraction.
There may not be many of these types of students, but what you find out when you are in a room of 20+ kids is that it only takes a few to break concentration and cause loss in learning time. When there are so many issues going on to take away from learning, style is usually an easy thing to change because it can visibly be maintained. Of course, nothing is easy when it comes to teaching and managing a bunch of kids and their parents.
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