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Originally posted by bilmore
That was my attitude towards pierced ears. Then I was forcibly re-educated, learning that they were completely acceptable. Why are nose studs so much of a leap from putting holes in your ear lobes? I think AG was way off-base on this one.
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Also, the bigger issue is that her mother let her do it. I might disagree with that, but I do think that, for a public school, it's within parents' rights to dictate what their kids have in their faces, within reason. Just like a public school should not be able to deny education based on gold teeth or bad skin, neither should they be able to say "no piercings if you want book-learnin'!"
I've done a little bit of pro bono school law stuff, and I've drawn two conclusions: (i) kids do a lot of really stupid things and their parents back them up and say they did nothing wrong and (ii) school administrators have leaped ahead of cops in the category of "people who rule over their own pathetic little spheres of power and control without rationality, fairness or appropriate exercise of disretion. It's pretty pathetic they stuff they try to get away with and ultimately don't, when all they have to do is meet some minor standard of fairness not even close to due process.
