Student Suspended Because Of Haircut – Education — I kind of went along with this story until I saw the video of the kid. If this kid is a member of the notorious 505 gang, then we’re all in trouble. It’s bull. The Zia symbol he put on his head is hardly any different than that on the awards he’s won. The school admin folks are acting like freaks. That said, the haircut is a little odd.
An Albuquerque Public Schools student is in trouble over a controversial haircut.
In December a student showed up to Rio Grande High School with a 505 symbol on the back of his head, reported KOAT-TV in Albuquerque.
The principal pulled him out of class and took him to shave his head. Now a student at Harrison Middle School is suspended thanks to the same haircut. Robert Peralta, 12, and his mother called it a symbol of pride, but APS said they don’t see it that way.
Symbol of the Zia Indians
That is the state flag of New Mexico. So I dont get this.
There’s a gang named after the area code for our whole state? If so, another example of the lack of originality among the morons who become gang members.
So why not interview the kid? If he’s in a gang he’s probably dumb enough to admit it, and that will let us all relax in knowing that him being persecuted is justified.
There’s more important things to worry about in schools than teaching after all.
The Zia symbol is plastered on a significant amount of anything state sponsored in New Mexico. A person gets a different haircut featuring the motif. How does the Zia symbol suddenly become a gang symbol? Something is in the eye of the beholder.
That said, I hope the tribe gets royalties every time the Zia is displayed by the state.
In the 90s they used to haircuts with letters or lines. Does this means that the mullet will be updated too?
OLD!
Situation normal. School administrators are all about power, control, and little tiny bureaucratic minds.
Glad I got that stereotype off my chest. But James Hill is right – they should just interview the kid. First, it’d be a relief from the Anna Nicole binge, and second, once the other kids saw the first kid on TV they’d all want the same haircut. Presto – total dilution of whatever symbolic power the school administration was afraid the haircut represented.
Stupid, stupid, people. Are they more interested in wasting a young mans life? I guess they don’t realize that schools have a poor track record of enforcing things like this whenever it has hit the Federal Courts. And the worst thing is the cost is born by the taxpayers.
So the school will have a single teacher for him for the rest of the year. Talk about saving money.
Last time I checked, the state of New Mexico had expropriated (i.e., stolen) the Zia symbol to begin with. School officials should be encouraging native pride and individualism, not trying to make everyone into someone else’s vision of boring sameness. “yeah, ye do lock yourselves up in cages of fear, then complain that ye lack freedom” —Principia Discordia, from the epistle to the paranoids
Am I the only one who can see that the kids cut seems to incorporate the numbers 505? It isn’t just the zia symbol on the back of his head. See the “5” by the kids right ear?
Its a gang sign, and the punk kid needs to be kicked out for being a disruption. Sorry guys. Quit trying to give civil rights to children. We don’t let them legally vote, drink, or do lots of things because they cannot be trusted to make good decisions.
Thanks George. Sounds like you might actually have children.
So… If we get a gang to adopt the US Flag as their symbol (maybe something like that “Hatah Patriots” or something), and a kid shaves that in his head, will this administrator ban that from the school?
Geez.
I recently graduated from one of these New Mexico high schools and I can tell you that the administration has a 0 tolerance policiy when it comes to gangs in their schools. Teachers go to seminars on how to spot and react to gang members in their class and students are frequently suspended for wearing gang apparel.
I remember my senior year my school wasn’t allowed to wear Raider football jersey’s because of their relevance to the Raider gang in the area.
That is one Fugged up interpretation of the Zia symbol.
I smell Gang!!
Btw,the football players waving fingers at the cameras are just greetings to friends and family at home.
Same smell!!
Thanks George