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Message: <blockquote data-quote="boxstop7" data-source="post: 510792" data-attributes="member: 8804">After reading this, my opinion of the situation changes somewhat.  Well, let's be honest.  It changes a whole lot.  If she is seriously trying to pull stunts like this, I would most assuredly heed mythago's advice on investigating the Equal Access Act and contacting your local branch of the ACLU.  Disallowing your right to play D&D out of ignorant fear is one thing.  Disallowing people to wear their hair in a manner of their choosing (a subject that is quite near and dear to my heart) is taking away ANY rights a person may have to individuality.  It sounds to me like this woman is simply an ignorant, close-minded (if not ethno-centric) *@!% who's trying to force her will and ideals upon the school.  If the Principal allows it to happen, he's merely a pawn to her game.  In my experience, there's NOTHING that people like your AP hate more than the sound of the ACLU heard approaching.  That sounds means that she's finally gone too far.  It means that she's going to have to accept other peoples' beliefs and ideas, and she won't have a choice in the matter.  A lot of people rail the ACLU as being a hard-core leftist organization.  Not true.  They defend *everyone's* rights.  But in this case, it will appear leftist since you're fighting a hard-core right-winger.  At any rate, I'm just ranting now.  I really think that this is your best option, but you've still got to approach it with the same attitude as with everything else: patience, humility and wisdom.  Re-read mythago's post and investigate those options, only when you go make sure you include the hoody/haircut limitations as well.  It'll only strengthen your case.  But the key is prudence! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Keep us posted!~BoxEDIT:  Cleaned up my cursing...I'm trying to keep it clean, folks! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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