Native American Boy Pulled From Class Over Mohawk Hairstyle

[Lakhota]

"To ostracize him like that -- that's stuff from the '50s."

A young Native American student in Utah is back in class after school staff sent him to the office claiming his Mohawk hairstyle violated school policy.

“They wanted Kobe to come home until we cut his hair,” Gary Sanden, the father of 7-year-old Jakobe Sanden, told the Salt Lake Tribune. “That’s who he is. That’s part of his culture.”

Gary Sanden is a member of the Seneca Nation and his wife, Teyawwna Sanden, is a member of the Kaibab Band of Paiutes Indians, Fox 13 reported.

Their son was kicked out of his second-grade class at Arrowhead Elementary School in the city of Santa Clara on Monday after showing up sporting the haircut he got the previous Friday. Administrators called Jakobe's parents to tell them the boy's hairstyle violated school policy and he needed to change it, Gary Sanden told The Washington Post.

The school’s online handbook does not mention any specific hairstyles, The Post pointed out, but simply states that “extremes in body piercings, hair styles and hair colors may be considered a distraction or disruption.”

“We had the students that weren’t used to it,” Arrowhead Principal Susan Harrah told Fox 13. “They had called that out. So the teacher brought the student to my attention.”

School officials initially asked Teyawwna Sanden to pick up her son and change his hair, Gary Sanden told news station WFAA. Both parents offered to bring in their tribal membership cards to prove their heritage, but the school said they needed documentation from a tribal leader.

The couple got Seneca Nation Councillor William Canella to write to the superintendent.

“It is common for Seneca boys to wear a Mohawk because after years of discrimination and oppression, they are proud to share who they are," Canella wrote.

Native American Boy Pulled From Class Over Mohawk Hairstyle

When I was in school, a lot of boys wore Mohawks - including whites. This young man has every right to express his proud heritage.

 

[Billy_Kinetta]

I had one in summer when I was in Scouts.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

That's our PC Schools for you, crushing individuality until there's none left

 

[Zoom-boing]

He has to follow the school's dress code/policy just like everyone else. He didn't, he violated it so he was sent home, he can return when he follows the rules.

I fail to see the problem.

 

[Lakhota]

He has to follow the school's dress code/policy just like everyone else. He didn't, he violated it so he was sent home, he can return when he follows the rules.

I fail to see the problem.

Actually, he violated nothing.

 

[Zoom-boing]

He has to follow the school's dress code/policy just like everyone else. He didn't, he violated it so he was sent home, he can return when he follows the rules.

I fail to see the problem.

Actually, he violated nothing.

If he violated nothing then why are his parents seeking an exception for his hairdo?

 

[Lakhota]

He has to follow the school's dress code/policy just like everyone else. He didn't, he violated it so he was sent home, he can return when he follows the rules.

I fail to see the problem.

Actually, he violated nothing.

If he violated nothing then why are his parents seeking an exception for his hairdo?

Exception to what? His Mohawk did not violate school policy - it only violated perceptions of others.

 

[Pogo]

“We had the students that weren’t used to it,” Arrowhead Principal Susan Harrah told Fox 13. “They had called that out. So the teacher brought the student to my attention.”​

--- so they're saying it's not their job to get used to new ideas --- it's the new ideas' job to not exist.

Apparently somebody thinks they have not only the right to not be offended but even the right to not be challenged with fresh perspectives.

What a great lesson for a school to teach. No less a school called "Arrowhead".

School gets an F.

That's our PC Schools for you, crushing individuality until there's none left

And Frank gets an A.

 

[Spinster]

"To ostracize him like that -- that's stuff from the '50s."

A young Native American student in Utah is back in class after school staff sent him to the office claiming his Mohawk hairstyle violated school policy.

“They wanted Kobe to come home until we cut his hair,” Gary Sanden, the father of 7-year-old Jakobe Sanden, told the Salt Lake Tribune. “That’s who he is. That’s part of his culture.”

Gary Sanden is a member of the Seneca Nation and his wife, Teyawwna Sanden, is a member of the Kaibab Band of Paiutes Indians, Fox 13 reported.

Their son was kicked out of his second-grade class at Arrowhead Elementary School in the city of Santa Clara on Monday after showing up sporting the haircut he got the previous Friday. Administrators called Jakobe's parents to tell them the boy's hairstyle violated school policy and he needed to change it, Gary Sanden told The Washington Post.

The school’s online handbook does not mention any specific hairstyles, The Post pointed out, but simply states that “extremes in body piercings, hair styles and hair colors may be considered a distraction or disruption.”

“We had the students that weren’t used to it,” Arrowhead Principal Susan Harrah told Fox 13. “They had called that out. So the teacher brought the student to my attention.”

School officials initially asked Teyawwna Sanden to pick up her son and change his hair, Gary Sanden told news station WFAA. Both parents offered to bring in their tribal membership cards to prove their heritage, but the school said they needed documentation from a tribal leader.

The couple got Seneca Nation Councillor William Canella to write to the superintendent.

“It is common for Seneca boys to wear a Mohawk because after years of discrimination and oppression, they are proud to share who they are," Canella wrote.

Native American Boy Pulled From Class Over Mohawk Hairstyle

When I was in school, a lot of boys wore Mohawks - including whites. This young man has every right to express his proud heritage.

EVERYTHING is against school policy these days. WTF is with all the genuflecting going on, political correctness taking over in all aspects of life. E-gads!! You need a huge training manual to digest before entering society mainstream now a days. Life used to be soooo much more simple, and actually fun.

 

[Iceweasel]

Put libs in charge of something and sit back and watch the chaos.

 

[Zoom-boing]

He has to follow the school's dress code/policy just like everyone else. He didn't, he violated it so he was sent home, he can return when he follows the rules.

I fail to see the problem.

Actually, he violated nothing.

If he violated nothing then why are his parents seeking an exception for his hairdo?

Exception to what? His Mohawk did not violate school policy - it only violated perceptions of others.

School administrators said his hairdo violated school policy:

"Administrators called Jakobe's parents to tell them the boy's hairstyle violated school policy and he needed to change it"

Parents whined and "offered to bring in their tribal membership cards to prove their heritage, but the school said they needed documentation from a tribal leader." They want the school to make an exception for their kid because "It is common for Seneca boys to wear a Mohawk because after years of discrimination and oppression, they are proud to share who they are".

If school policy says hairdo falls outside of it, then it does, kid must follow school rules. Wanting an exception because "discrimination!" is nonsense and should not be made.

 

[Pogo]

"To ostracize him like that -- that's stuff from the '50s."

A young Native American student in Utah is back in class after school staff sent him to the office claiming his Mohawk hairstyle violated school policy.

“They wanted Kobe to come home until we cut his hair,” Gary Sanden, the father of 7-year-old Jakobe Sanden, told the Salt Lake Tribune. “That’s who he is. That’s part of his culture.”

Gary Sanden is a member of the Seneca Nation and his wife, Teyawwna Sanden, is a member of the Kaibab Band of Paiutes Indians, Fox 13 reported.

Their son was kicked out of his second-grade class at Arrowhead Elementary School in the city of Santa Clara on Monday after showing up sporting the haircut he got the previous Friday. Administrators called Jakobe's parents to tell them the boy's hairstyle violated school policy and he needed to change it, Gary Sanden told The Washington Post.

The school’s online handbook does not mention any specific hairstyles, The Post pointed out, but simply states that “extremes in body piercings, hair styles and hair colors may be considered a distraction or disruption.”

“We had the students that weren’t used to it,” Arrowhead Principal Susan Harrah told Fox 13. “They had called that out. So the teacher brought the student to my attention.”

School officials initially asked Teyawwna Sanden to pick up her son and change his hair, Gary Sanden told news station WFAA. Both parents offered to bring in their tribal membership cards to prove their heritage, but the school said they needed documentation from a tribal leader.

The couple got Seneca Nation Councillor William Canella to write to the superintendent.

“It is common for Seneca boys to wear a Mohawk because after years of discrimination and oppression, they are proud to share who they are," Canella wrote.

Native American Boy Pulled From Class Over Mohawk Hairstyle

When I was in school, a lot of boys wore Mohawks - including whites. This young man has every right to express his proud heritage.

EVERYTHING is against school policy these days. WTF is with all the genuflecting going on, political correctness taking over in all aspects of life. E-gads!! You need a huge training manual to digest before entering society mainstream now a days. Life used to be soooo much more simple, and actually fun.

The school in effect did teach a lesson --- that lesson being that the school as an institution is there to churn out cookie-cutter drones. That's been the case as long as the institution has existed; it's nothing new, though it does seem to be deteriorating.

I can recall a kid in high school -- or possibly it was Junior High -- who came in with a Mohawk in the mid-'60s. He got no such action. He simply went to his classes like everybody else. But at least he got to establish some individual character.

 

[Pogo]

He has to follow the school's dress code/policy just like everyone else. He didn't, he violated it so he was sent home, he can return when he follows the rules.

I fail to see the problem.

Actually, he violated nothing.

If he violated nothing then why are his parents seeking an exception for his hairdo?

Exception to what? His Mohawk did not violate school policy - it only violated perceptions of others.

School administrators said his hairdo violated school policy:

"Administrators called Jakobe's parents to tell them the boy's hairstyle violated school policy and he needed to change it"

Parents whined and "offered to bring in their tribal membership cards to prove their heritage, but the school said they needed documentation from a tribal leader." They want the school to make an exception for their kid because "It is common for Seneca boys to wear a Mohawk because after years of discrimination and oppression, they are proud to share who they are".

If school policy says hairdo falls outside of it, then it does, kid must follow school rules. Wanting an exception because "discrimination!" is nonsense and should not be made.

It shouldn't be a criterion what the fuck his heritage is or isn't. That's irrelevant.
What the school's trying to do is suppress individuality. And individuality has no ethnicity.

 

[Katzndogz]

If he's going to adopt this hairstyle as part of his culture he should have it done the way the natives did. They did not shave their heads. The hair was plucked out.
In the interests of saving time, perhaps waxing would do.

 

[Lakhota]

We can't change history, but this is yet another example of whites engaged in cultural genocide against Native Americans.

 

[Harry Dresden]

He has to follow the school's dress code/policy just like everyone else. He didn't, he violated it so he was sent home, he can return when he follows the rules.

I fail to see the problem.

Actually, he violated nothing.

If he violated nothing then why are his parents seeking an exception for his hairdo?

Exception to what? His Mohawk did not violate school policy - it only violated perceptions of others.

these guys violated lots of perceptions....


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[Sun Devil 92]

Good old grade school.

Just isn't what it used to be.

 

[Tank]

We can't change history, but this is yet another example of whites engaged in cultural genocide against Native Americans.

What culture?

LOL

 

[Lakhota]

If he's going to adopt this hairstyle as part of his culture he should have it done the way the natives did. They did not shave their heads. The hair was plucked out.
In the interests of saving time, perhaps waxing would do.

Maybe he "should have it done the way" he wants it.

 

[SmarterThanTheAverageBear]

He has to follow the school's dress code/policy just like everyone else. He didn't, he violated it so he was sent home, he can return when he follows the rules.

I fail to see the problem.

Actually, he violated nothing.

If he violated nothing then why are his parents seeking an exception for his hairdo?

Exception to what? His Mohawk did not violate school policy - it only violated perceptions of others.

School administrators said his hairdo violated school policy:

"Administrators called Jakobe's parents to tell them the boy's hairstyle violated school policy and he needed to change it"

Parents whined and "offered to bring in their tribal membership cards to prove their heritage, but the school said they needed documentation from a tribal leader." They want the school to make an exception for their kid because "It is common for Seneca boys to wear a Mohawk because after years of discrimination and oppression, they are proud to share who they are".

If school policy says hairdo falls outside of it, then it does, kid must follow school rules. Wanting an exception because "discrimination!" is nonsense and should not be made.

It shouldn't be a criterion what the fuck his heritage is or isn't. That's irrelevant.
What the school's trying to do is suppress individuality. And individuality has no ethnicity.

I actually don't think conformity is a bad thing at all to be teaching.

School is NOT the place to showing you're proud of your heritage, your religion, your sexuality, or anything else. It's a place to LEARN.

Sure , one argument could be made that allowing each group to "express themselves" is in fact teaching all kids to learn to get along with people who are different from them, But let's face it, kids are cruel and are never going to "get along" with people who are different than them, and that in itself is a lesson, learning how to go along to get along.

I'm tired of seeing all these stories where people are challenging authority at every turn.

Hey injuns, your heritage also does not include public school, so homeschool your child if you don't want to follow school policy.

Also, I GUARANTEE that if this had a been a Christian child removed because he wore a cross to school Lakhota would be celebrating the victory.