School Board Does Not Change Long Hair Suspension
The school board of Itasca, Texas listened to Kenneth Fail's mother complain about his in-school suspension last night (Monday, 13 September 2010). They listened in silence, but changed nothing.
Kenneth, age 12, had been on in-school suspension in fifth grade for his locks, and was put in it this school year in his first day of sixth grade.
At the meeting for the Itasca Independent School District, his mother, Marsha Wisnosky, wore a "Free Kenny" T-shirt. She said, "What about pregnant teenagers. How does that look with them walking around in your school and what does that say to every other teenage girl? When does it come down to the child's merits not the way they look?"
Others commented on how letting girls have long hair, some much longer than Kenneth's, amounted to sexual discrimination. We're wondering if this will end up in court, and are notifying the ACLU about it.
Ironically, the school district's website at http://www.itascaisd.org proclaims, "The Itasca ISD does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, or disability in providing education or providing access to benefits of education services, activities, and programs...."
For more on the meeting, see http://cbs11tv.com/education/itasca.kenneth.fails.2.1911441.html
For all our entries on Kenneth Fails, see http://www.loveshade.org/blog-mt/mt-search.fcgi?IncludeBlogs=1&search=Kenneth+Fails
The photo of Kenneth Fails is from CBS 11, and no threat to its copyright is intended http://image.cbslocal.com/24/2010/08/24/320x240/kennethfails.jpg