Posted 12/17/2009 01:20:00 PM by Douglas

I just love stories like this. This precious, precious little snowflake is such a free spirit. Why should he have to follow the rules if he doesn't want to? He is four, after all.

Prekindergartner 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."

They kicked you out for disobeying the rules, tater tot. The world's not out to get you just because you don't get to do everything you want. And besides that, you're four fucking years old. You "want" long hair? I bet you want to eat nothing but candy all day and poop in the bath tub, too. Does mom let you do that? Let's hear from mom [I wish I were making this up] Elizabeth Taylor:

Elizabeth Taylor, Taylor's mother, said her son is "an individual. He wants his long hair."

Yep. Tater tot does get everything he wants. Why is that mean old school district picking on this free spirit?

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."

Of course not. Children should be allowed to do whatever they want, whenever they want to, and if that conflicts with the rules and standards of society that we as human beings have been cultivating for several millennia, you should always side with the four year old.

At what point did the delineation between children and adults completely evaporate?