Backwards Rules For Backwards Hats
This is what counts as good news in the fight against zero tolerance policies: Former student gets suspension reduced to 45 days for wearing his hat backwards at a baseball game (and what about the catcher wearing a helmet backwards under his helmet?). He was initially suspended for 6 months after the principal because a backwards hat is "gang related". The reason for the "rule" is a real kicker:
"We've always had a school policy to address patrons wearing backwards hats, because of an incident that occurred several years ago involving some of our athletes on a road trip," Byrum told the hearing committee. On this road trip, several Calvin players were verbally and physically accosted by a group of adolescents wearing backwards ball caps.
So if that incident had been skinheads messing w/ their students - they would have banned shaved heads? Or if they had been accosted by a group of Latinos - would they have banned Latinos from the baseball field?
"We've always had a school policy to address patrons wearing backwards hats, because of an incident that occurred several years ago involving some of our athletes on a road trip," Byrum told the hearing committee. On this road trip, several Calvin players were verbally and physically accosted by a group of adolescents wearing backwards ball caps.
So if that incident had been skinheads messing w/ their students - they would have banned shaved heads? Or if they had been accosted by a group of Latinos - would they have banned Latinos from the baseball field?
# | September 27, 2002