Tona King denied junior Jim Stack’s request to grow out his hair for Lots of Love. Stack is not accepting his denial he is now going before the school board.
Stack’s wanted to grow out his hair for kids with cancer since it’s close to his hear “his little sister was diagnosed with cancer at the age of five”. After her current doctors appointment she was declared cancer free. However she is cancer free she still wears a wig that makes her feel normal. Knowing the feeling a wig has on his sister he wants to change other kids lives.
Ready to help cancer kids Stack goes to the principal requesting to break the school dress code of no hair past collar length. She responded saying “ We have rules for a reason, and we just can’t go breaking them!”. Trying to keep the school a fair place she decided it wouldn’t be quite fair for one student to get to break the rules when the other are held accountable not to.
Trying to push this he even says “ I even agreed to tuck my hair into my collar so nobody could see it”. Though Principal King holds her ground saying it still wouldn’t be fair for all the other students.
With everybody knowing about Stack’s sister they quickly agreed with Stack about growing his hair. The student body getting involved signing a letter the student council wrote saying “ Rules are made to be broken”, along with three hundred signatures. Along with all the Signatures “150 males signed to grow out their hair” wanting to also make a difference.
Junior Jim Stack’s request to grow out his hair was denied by principal Tonya King, now going before the school board that will meet this Monday at 7pm for the final decision to be made.
Stack’s wanted to grow out his hair for kids with cancer since it’s close to his heart. Knowing much about cancer Stack knew that this was one of the best ways he could help.
“His little sister was diagnosed with cancer at the age of five”, says one of Stack’s friends.
Ready to help cancer kids Stack goes to the principal King requesting to break the school dress code of no hair past collar length. Ready to agree to even tuck his hair into collar due to the present school rules.
“ We have rules for a reason, and we just can’t go breaking them!” says King at Stack request for growing out his hair.
Everybody knowing about Stack’s sister they all are willing to help him in this situation. Some students even felt inspired by his act and have decided to grow out their hair as well.
“Rules are made to be broken” writes the Student Council
With everybody knowing about Stack’s sister they quickly agreed with Stack about growing his hair. The student body getting involved signing a letter the student council wrote a letter along with three hundred signatures. Among the Signatures 150 males signed to grow out their hair wanting to also make a difference.
“I can’t comment on the issue right now,” school board president Bill Valdez said. “I will say that the letter was well-written and had some good points.”
With the finally meeting coming up Valdez has many decisions about his school and community ahead of him.