Haircut boy gets $24k costs

[MVnut]

Well it's $24k down the drain for the school.....isn't that taxpayers money in there somewhere....actual costs were about $36k apparently....what a waste of time and money, the little shit should've just got a haircut

[neels]

Perhaps some of the other students should give him a haircut, as a special thank you for wasting $24k of the schools money that could have been put to far better use.

Still can't understand how he can enrol at a school knowing what the rules are, then take the school to court because he doesn't like the rules, the world has gone mad......

[sil3nt]

Still can't understand how he can enrol at a school knowing what the rules are, then take the school to court because he doesn't like the rules, the world has gone mad......

That isn't what happened.

[MVnut]

Perhaps some of the other students should give him a haircut, as a special thank you for wasting $24k of the schools money that could have been put to far better use.

Still can't understand how he can enrol at a school knowing what the rules are, then take the school to court because he doesn't like the rules, the world has gone mad......

Agreed, back in my day (at Auckland Grammar) violence from peers was a good deterrent....plus caning of course if you sneezed out of turn. Discipline.....is that even still in the dictionary?

[MVnut]

That isn't what happened.

In basic terms, it pretty much is

[BigAl]

Been already discussed but the blame lies with the parents imo.

What a bloody waste of money, good way to a new S1000RR......

[Bikemad]

shithot......now the precedent has been set.....i'm gonna sue my employer cause company rules state i must wear a poofy blue shirt to work and i don't look good in blue...........

[James Deuce]

It's a non-issue inflated into a battle of egos by a school who found it more important to make a principled stand about a student ever so slightly bending rules than using common sense. Serves us right for thinking Authority = 100% right. Society will not collapse if a boy ties his hair up.

[sil3nt]

In basic terms, it pretty much is

He had been at the school for some time and it was never an issue. The headmaster had been at the school only a month and decided his haircut was unacceptable. We know he has had long hair for a while because he was in the news January 2013. So unless I missed the part where the kid had just enrolled it is nothing like what neels has said.

[MVnut]

He had been at the school for some time and it was never an issue. The headmaster had been at the school only a month and decided his haircut was unacceptable. We know he has had long hair for a while because he was in the news January 2013. So unless I missed the part where the kid had just enrolled it is nothing like what neels has said.

Changes nothing, basically he was running close to the wire for some time, the rule was still there, even though now it is deemed to be poorly worded.

[scott411]

They should just post a list of things that will be cancelled due to the 24 k they were charged,

[buggerit]

Well it's $24k down the drain for the school.....isn't that taxpayers money in there somewhere....actual costs were about $36k apparently....what a waste of time and money, the little shit should've just got a haircut

Lots of employers do a facebook search now , ooh bugga!
Hope they dont cancel to many activities to claw back the budget deficit ,someone would be popular

[neels]

He had been at the school for some time and it was never an issue. The headmaster had been at the school only a month and decided his haircut was unacceptable. We know he has had long hair for a while because he was in the news January 2013. So unless I missed the part where the kid had just enrolled it is nothing like what neels has said.

If the headmaster changed the school rules when he started and then enforced the new rule a month later then fair enough, different if the rule already existed when he enrolled at the school but just hadn't been enforced. Most people would view a headmaster trying to improve discipline or the image of their school as a good thing.

Either way one parent making a point on behalf of his poor hard done by son has wasted a shitload of the schools money.

[jasonu]

Hopefully the prefects will flush the little pricks head down the bog. That will fix his hair doo.

[Trade_nancy]

It's a non-issue inflated into a battle of egos by a school who found it more important to make a principled stand about a student ever so slightly bending rules than using common sense. Serves us right for thinking Authority = 100% right. Society will not collapse if a boy ties his hair up.

Tell that to the defense force if you want a job there....or my workplace..girlie..
Rules are not necessarily about the state or appearance of the person as defined by said rules - rather a means of instilling a willingness to conform and follow directions. A means of making a yob disciplined. Otherwise - fuck off and live outside of the society you are rocking the boat of - fuck off to the boonies and live like a hermit under a rock.
Wonder how he'll react to law enforcement telling him he has to wear a seat belt in his car? Or will he not want a crash helmet on a bike? Bet he'd not wear hi-viz...oops.