Posted by shyla at 12:51am Jan 23 '05You should respect authority and question authority. To question authority, you must go through the proper channels.
In your story, I think that what the boy should have done depended upon the school dress code. I believe in freedom of speech and all that jazz, however, schools have dress code restrictions for a purpose. A mohawk could be considered too distracting to the other students, or the teacher, thereby making it more difficult for the children to focus on their lessons or more difficult for the teacher to focus on teaching those lessons.
Now, I think the boy should have either excused himself from the class and spoken with the principal or called his parent/guardian for their input. After having done that, the parent/guardian should have gone through the proper channels for getting the school dress code restrictions changed, or (if there were no restrictions on mohawks) getting the teacher reprimanded for forcing her own opinion onto her students.
In any event, I agree with both respecting and questioning authority. Actually, I believe, to question authority is to respect authority. There are just right and wrong ways to do so.
In your story, I think that what the boy should have done depended upon the school dress code. I believe in freedom of speech and all that jazz, however, schools have dress code restrictions for a purpose. A mohawk could be considered too distracting to the other students, or the teacher, thereby making it more difficult for the children to focus on their lessons or more difficult for the teacher to focus on teaching those lessons.
Now, I think the boy should have either excused himself from the class and spoken with the principal or called his parent/guardian for their input. After having done that, the parent/guardian should have gone through the proper channels for getting the school dress code restrictions changed, or (if there were no restrictions on mohawks) getting the teacher reprimanded for forcing her own opinion onto her students.
In any event, I agree with both respecting and questioning authority. Actually, I believe, to question authority is to respect authority. There are just right and wrong ways to do so.
Both.. - shyla