A kindergarten student with a freshly spiked Mohawk has been suspended from school.
Michelle Barile, the mother of six-year-old Bryan Ruda, said nothing in the Parma Community School handbook prohibits Mohawks. The haircut is characterized by closely shaved sides with a strip of prominent hair on top. The school said the hair was a distraction for other students.
"I understand they have a dress code. I understand he has a uniform. But this is total discrimination," she said. "They can't tell me how I can cut his hair."
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An administrator at the suburban Cleveland charter school first warned Barile last fall that the haircut wasn't acceptable. The school later sent another warning to her reiterating the ban.
Mohawks violate the school's policy on being properly groomed, school Principal Linda Geyer said. Also, the school district's dress code allows school officials to forbid anything that interferes with the conduct of education.
Ruda's hair became a disruption late last month when Ruda arrived freshly shorn, Geyer said. Administrators called Barile telling her to pick Ruda up from school.
"This was his third infraction," Geyer said. "We felt that we were being extremely patient."
Rather than request a hearing to appeal the suspension, Barile said she'll enroll him at another school. Changing the hairstyle is not an option, she said.
"It's something that he really likes," Barile said. "When people hear Mohawk, they think it's long, it's spiked, it's crazy looking; and it's really not." (AP)
有一個幼稚園小朋友因為新理了一顆刺刺尖尖的雞冠頭而被學校休學。
六歲大的布萊恩．魯達的母親蜜雪．芭瑞兒說，帕馬社區學校的手冊上並未提到禁止學生理雞冠頭；雞冠頭的髮型特色就是幾乎削掉兩側頭髮，只留下頭頂上顯眼的一道，校方表示這種髮型分散會其他學生的注意力。
「我知道校方有服裝規定，我也知道小孩要穿制服，但這根本就是一種歧視嘛，」她說：「他們不能命令我該怎麼為我的小孩理髮。」
克里夫蘭市郊這所特許學校的一名校務人員表示，校方上學期就提醒過芭瑞兒，雞冠頭不符合規定，稍後學校又寄出書面警告給她重申該禁令。
校長琳達．蓋爾說，雞冠頭違反校方儀容整潔的政策；另外，該學區的服裝規範中也明訂校方有權禁止任何有礙學校管理的事物。
蓋爾校長說，魯達上個月底剛理髮時，他的髮型引起一場騷動；校務人員致電芭瑞兒請她把小孩接回家。
「這是他第三次違規了，」蓋爾說：「我們覺得我們對他已極度寬容了。」
芭瑞兒說她寧可讓小孩轉學，也不要召開聽證會上訴休學處分；她說，我們不會換髮型。
「這是他真正喜歡的髮型，」芭瑞兒說：「人們一聽到雞冠頭就會聯想到很長、刺刺尖尖、瘋狂的造型；但實際上根本不是那樣。」（美聯社�翻譯：袁星塵）
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