If you live in America, no doubt you've heard today's biggest news headline. A student of Bleckley County High School was sent home from school for having blue hair. Maegan Galloway, who is also known for having parents that were uncertain of the spelling of her first name at birth, rebelliously bucked the system that keeps the state of Georgia strong by dying her hair blue. Galloway was told not to return until she gave a bye job to the dye job.
I've been known to be a defender of the rights of the people, which is why I support the faculty that decided to get rid of this bad egg. Defenders of the school faculty point to the fact that the student handbook clearly informs the students that blue hair dye is not allowed, even though the school handbook doesn't do this at all. Even more darning is the distraction created by this blue haired demon. Wait... what was I writing about? I was busy looking at this blue hair. It really makes her look cool. The point is, the only way to cure this distraction was by creating a bigger distraction by kicking her out of school. And who knows more about distractions than the faculty of BCHS? After all, they are so busy busting kids with dyed hair that they can barely focus on giving the kids they bust an education.
Sure, some may say, "what a about the kid that was in the news last year due to being the star quarterback for the school's football team? He had dyed hair." I think we all know that this is different. After all, he was a star quarterback, and Ms. Galloway is not. If you're an athlete that holds your school's football team together, the school can't afford to get rid of you. That's silly talk.
I think everybody also must admit that blue hair is a slippery slope that leads to more dangerous behavior. Next, Galloway will be injecting marijuana and listening to questionable music like the Blink 182. Next thing you know, she's sacrificing a goat to one of the coolest of the demonic deities. If and when she does this in school, it could possibly be a bigger distraction than blue hair. Then, all the other kids start doing it, and at that point it's so common it's no longer a distraction.
Also, Ms. Galloway should think more about other people than herself. What about those kids with completely unhip parents that don't allow the very cool activity of sweet hair dying in blazin' colors? What about the poor kids that can only afford that spray on crap that doesn't even last a full day? What about the people that are offended by the blue hair, like the Smurfs?
The event got so out of hand, the pound symbol #savetheblue was created on the kids' Twitters. Many students in the school dressed in blue to support this deviant. That's something that if nothing else only strengthens my argument that Maegan Galloway is one of the most popular students at BCHS, unlike me. I would often sit in my desk, unable to pay attention to what my teacher was saying due to the tears I was crying internally. I was so unpopular, people wouldn't have even noticed if my hair were blue.
We have to realize that our school systems are a place to turn every student into a carbon copy of each other. If such behavior continues, our school systems could become less like prisons and more like a place they go to learn. I fear the day my children are not forced by strangers I don't know to do things I will never know about because I ask them when I pick them up from school what they did and they put on their headphones while responding, "Ehh, nothing." They could even be granted Constitutional rights that should not apply to people under the age of 18, or 21, or 16, or whatever age that you think children become adults at.
To the faculty of this school, I say thank you. To Ms. Galloway, the public waits for your apology.
I've been known to be a defender of the rights of the people, which is why I support the faculty that decided to get rid of this bad egg. Defenders of the school faculty point to the fact that the student handbook clearly informs the students that blue hair dye is not allowed, even though the school handbook doesn't do this at all. Even more darning is the distraction created by this blue haired demon. Wait... what was I writing about? I was busy looking at this blue hair. It really makes her look cool. The point is, the only way to cure this distraction was by creating a bigger distraction by kicking her out of school. And who knows more about distractions than the faculty of BCHS? After all, they are so busy busting kids with dyed hair that they can barely focus on giving the kids they bust an education.
Sure, some may say, "what a about the kid that was in the news last year due to being the star quarterback for the school's football team? He had dyed hair." I think we all know that this is different. After all, he was a star quarterback, and Ms. Galloway is not. If you're an athlete that holds your school's football team together, the school can't afford to get rid of you. That's silly talk.
I think everybody also must admit that blue hair is a slippery slope that leads to more dangerous behavior. Next, Galloway will be injecting marijuana and listening to questionable music like the Blink 182. Next thing you know, she's sacrificing a goat to one of the coolest of the demonic deities. If and when she does this in school, it could possibly be a bigger distraction than blue hair. Then, all the other kids start doing it, and at that point it's so common it's no longer a distraction.
Also, Ms. Galloway should think more about other people than herself. What about those kids with completely unhip parents that don't allow the very cool activity of sweet hair dying in blazin' colors? What about the poor kids that can only afford that spray on crap that doesn't even last a full day? What about the people that are offended by the blue hair, like the Smurfs?
The event got so out of hand, the pound symbol #savetheblue was created on the kids' Twitters. Many students in the school dressed in blue to support this deviant. That's something that if nothing else only strengthens my argument that Maegan Galloway is one of the most popular students at BCHS, unlike me. I would often sit in my desk, unable to pay attention to what my teacher was saying due to the tears I was crying internally. I was so unpopular, people wouldn't have even noticed if my hair were blue.
We have to realize that our school systems are a place to turn every student into a carbon copy of each other. If such behavior continues, our school systems could become less like prisons and more like a place they go to learn. I fear the day my children are not forced by strangers I don't know to do things I will never know about because I ask them when I pick them up from school what they did and they put on their headphones while responding, "Ehh, nothing." They could even be granted Constitutional rights that should not apply to people under the age of 18, or 21, or 16, or whatever age that you think children become adults at.
To the faculty of this school, I say thank you. To Ms. Galloway, the public waits for your apology.
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