Why has Taylor Pugh, a four year old preschooler been suspended from school in Mesquite, Texas?”
BALCH SPRINGS, Texas — Taylor Pugh has been suspended from pre-kindergarten because he likes his hair a little on the floppy side. The 4-year-old sat with a teacher’s aide in a suburban Dallas school library Wednesday while his friends played and studied together in a classroom. “They kicked me out that place,” said Taylor, who prefers the nickname Tater Tot. “I miss my friends.” Taylor’s locks — long on the front and sides, covering his earlobes and shirt collar — violate the school district’s dress code. He has been punished with in-school suspension since late last month. His parents say the boy plans to eventually cut his hair and donate it to a charity that makes wigs for cancer patients. And they are not happy with the district’s rules. The school district appears “more concerned about his hair than his education,” said Taylor’s father, Delton Pugh. “I don’t think it’s right to hold a child down and force him to do something … when it’s not hurting him or affecting his educa
Pre-kindergartner Taylor Pugh likes his floppy hair just how it is: long on the front and sides, covering his earlobes and shirt collar. But his long locks violate the dress code in his suburban Dallas school district. So Taylor again Wednesday found himself facing in-school suspension, sitting in a library with a teacher’s aide while his friends played and learned together in a classroom. “They kicked me out that place,” said Taylor, 4, who prefers the nickname Tater Tot. “I miss my friends.” Taylor’s parents say he plans to eventually cut his hair and donate it to a charity that makes wigs for cancer patients. But they’re not happy with the district’s rules. It appears the school district “is more concerned about his hair than his education,” said Taylor’s father, Delton Pugh. “I don’t think it’s right to hold a child down and force him to do something … when it’s not hurting him or affecting his education.” Pugh, a tattoo artist, said he used to shave his own head but that his son
Four-year-old pre- kindergartner Taylor Pugh likes his floppy hair just how it is. But his long locks violate his school district’s dress code, so Taylor again Wednesday found himself facing in-school suspension, sitting in a library with a teacher’s aide. The dress code at Mesquite Independent School District in suburban Dallas says boys’ hair must be kept out of the eyes and cannot extend below the bottom of the earlobes or over the collar of a dress shirt.
