Banning of Hats

Henderson, Andrew. "GRB students to be barred from wearing hats in school." The Valley News. 24 July 2004. 23 January 2007. http://www.valleynewsonline.com/news/2004/0724/Front_Page/017.html

After reading this article about hats being banned from a school in New York, many thoughts came to my mind. Some of the reasons for banning hats in schools were reasonable but others were ridiculous. In the article, Tom Kenyon said that a student could hide a weapon in their hat. If you think about it, how many weapons would fit in a hat? The answer to that question is not many. Even if you could fit weapons into hats, they would fall out or be noticable. It is much easier to hide weapons in backpacks or even pockets but backpacks and pants with pockets are not banned from schools.

Another thing that i find ridiculous is that elementary and junior high schools in Fulton City had the banning of hats and the high school didn't. Alot of elementary students don't own weapons. High school would be the place to ban hats but its not necessary. Hats don't disrupt classes unless they are eye-catching like big sombreros.

The article also talks about ebing able to wear hats for "special fund-raisers or health and religious reasons." If a student saw another student wearing a hat and not geting yelled at or having it been taken away, the student might think thats its okay to wear hats. Then they would get in trouble but the other sudent wouldn't because that certain student had a health issue. Studnets could also lie about having to wear a hat or lie about their religion so that they would be able to wear a hat. Lying is much worse than wearing something on your head to express your self.