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This kid’s Matt Bonner haircut may land him in hot water with his school when it should be celebrated

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The bond between gingers is an unbreakable, everlasting bond that transcends space and time, so it comes as no surprise that when middle schooler Patrick Gonzalez wanted to show off his love for his hometown San Antonio Spurs, he chose to honor the player he admires most—fellow ginger Matt Bonner, aka the Red Rocket.

The San Antonio superfan had the image of the Spurs center preparing to launch a 3-pointer shaved into the back of his head, an act that while noble and  unique may land him in trouble with school officials because Gonzalez’s “Bonner Cut” has been deemed a distraction.  Officials for Judson I.S.D. have said on record that if Gonzalez comes to school on Thursday with his awesome haircut in tact he may be in line for an in-school suspension.

That haircut is distracting though…and by distracting I mean totally boss.  Look, it’s on the back of his head, so the only people that are going to see it are those lucky kids seated behind Gonzalez, and answer me this—when given the option of learning fractions or Shakespeare or something educational versus gazing longingly at a hair masterpiece of Spurs forward Matt Bonner, which option do you think most middle school kids would choose?

From Fox San Antonio…

Gonzalez (Patrick’s mother) says she came to the front office to ask permission. School leaders say she mentioned the haircut, but they never gave her the OK. “There was no permission that was given if the parent thought that then it was a miscommunication,” said Aubrey Chancellor, Judson I.S.D. District officials say the haircut is a distraction. “Whether it’s the spurs or whether it’s the cowboys anything people obviously support, it doesn’t matter.”

Give ‘em hell Aubrey Chancellor!  This blatant disregard for the rules regarding distracting haircuts that support professional teams currently in the playoffs must come to an end!  Or, and hear me out school officials at Judson I.S.D., maybe, just maybe you could let the kid’s haircut slide because the Spurs are rolling in the NBA playoffs and really, how offensive or distracting could a Matt Bonner haircut be?

About as offensive or distracting as Matt Bonner in real life, and that ain’t squat.

 

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  • Doubledoubter

    If I were his parents I would let him take the suspension so he could watch the playoffs uninterrupted! Maybe the school should focus on other issues affecting our youths and let him and his classmates enjoy his enthusiasm and the love of the game! If the school officials follow through I would be contacting y attorney for legal action! Wear that haircut with pride. I am sure you paid a pretty penny for it.

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/RRQKJUMZFZCF4NHIOYYLBL3HIE afs

    Aubrey Chancellor’s phone number is210-945-5414 at Judson Independent School District. Call her and tell her what an absurd human she is, and suggest another position in another profession where her idiocy won’t affect our school kids.

    • Opie1kanobie

      I called, and they said it’s part of their dress code, when I told them I thought that this was America.  I guess we have the right to go to another school that doesn’t have that dress code.

    • Highheels21

      Independent School District? False advertisement

    • http://twitter.com/drdjr24 DawgDaze

       I called and she told me to go fuk myself…it kinda hurt my feelins

    • Dennis Shimmel

      more people should post numbers to call IDIOTS!

  • http://twitter.com/Kajte_Briga Kajte Briga
  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_UK3UM4LIIMCMGKFLKDHKFR3VWU Noneofyourbusiness

    Awesome haircut? It’s ridiculous. It’s atrocious. And I support the school, although I’m sure bleeding heart dips***s like you will force them to bow to the wants of the child instead of teaching the child rights wrongs and limits.

    typical bs of people like you
     

    • Hobie944

       unless it is offensive you should be allowed to wear ur hair any god damn way u want

    • Ecmallam

      typical bs of people like you

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_JHGZYMVDAIDCXGJBI54FTLA4OQ david hays

    Have him cover it up at school would be the simples thing.  Wear a hat, or something like that.  No suspension needed.

    • http://twitter.com/msteahegan Téah Egan

      Most schools don’t allow hats.

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/AS5TOY6JH5KFPPVNPCB7WTSMC4 lisa

    put him in the back row then!!! suspened for a haircut, Serously?!

  • Annelynchbasketball

    Who cares?  It’s short, neat and clean cut!  Do the kids with mohawks, or other asymetrical haircuts get treated like him?  What about all the kids with numerous ear/facial piercings??  Leave him alone, I am sure the school has other things to focus on!
    Yes, I am a ginger, as well as my husband, son & daughter….just because we “stand-out” in the crowd, no matter what our hair style is!!!

  • Kittywalker

    This is the problem with America…rules are made, then broken and the public is outraged that a person is punished for violating rules.

  • Geojobar13

    the chubby person sitting in front of me in third period is distracting to can we suspend him to…and while were suspending people for there distractions theres also a teacher with birkenstock sandals and socks…throw the book at these distractions

  • DrunkenGamer67

    I’m not a sports fan.  I’m not even a parent.  I think as long as the hair does not:

    -Depict nudity or sex acts
    -Show profanity or other offensive words or phrasing
    -Block the view of other persons
    -Smell bad
    -Contain insects, vermin, etc
    -Contain products that trigger an allergic reaction in another person
    -Contain products that will harm the child themselves

    then kids should be able to wear their hair as they like.  The pre-teen-college years are for self expression.  They’ll be forced to conform soon enough.

  • Romy Abbey

    Simple Solution….Make the kid sit at the very back of the class with no one seated behind him. You’re Welcome Aubrey Chancellor…

  • Duh3ufus

    If the schools would concentrate on teaching students something besides “how to pass a test”, they wouldn’t have time to worry about his haircut and kids today would get a better education. Thumbs up on the haircut young man!!!

  • Mrwatt

    On Monday, every kid in that school should show up with a similar haircut.

  • Seriously? This is news?

    I have no strong feeling one way or another.

    Other than the fact both sides are being complete and utter dipsticks. Oh hey, guess I do have a strong feeling!

  • maxell38

    So the haircut is distracting, but the clothes and makeup that most girls wear nowadays isn’t a distraction?  Does this haircut make girls lust after him like skimpy clothes makes boys lust after them?

  • Nudeturk

    Put Gonzales in the very back row of the classroom and the distraction problem will be solved!

  • Melcci24

    The school needs to hold children more accountable. My goodness if im sitting behind a student with a really neat hair cut, and Im not paying attention to my teacher, then im not doing what I need to be doing as a student. The boy’s hair cut promotes art and creativity…School board members, and faculty need to focus on saftey of the students and learning techniques.

  • Opie1kanobie

    All the kids in that school should get one, and then let them try to shut the whole school down.  I thought we still lived in America?  Since when do parents have to get PERMISSION to get a specific haircut for their kid?!!!  Common’ now you Communist, Nazi, Marxist, Socialist…well you get the point.

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/3CXFS2BGFWUD6GEO3WLKKO2MLM Eugene

    they can still go to school looking like thugs and tarts though… but that’s not distracting unless you are a teenager… oh wait everything is distracting to a teenager, including the wind… better close the blinds too.

  • Mike4849

    I think the haircut is really cool. Distracting, absolutely! Although many of you may say this or that is more distracting and you may be right, the fact is this haircut cannot be allowed in school. We know what happens once exceptions are made. What do we do when another kid wants to do a design in his head that really is not ok? The whole class can’t sit in the back of the room. Some schools do have policies against certain type of clothing and agreed sometimes we do see clothing that is really a distraction. But let’s not start saying that the school is acting like the NAZI party. That statement is more offensive than anything else. Exceptions unfortunately cannot be made because we live in a society where people would take advantage of these exceptions. The truth is we all know that, we just wish it weren’t that way.

  • CT

    Put the kid in the back row of every classroom, then no one is behind him. We have kids with mohawks at our school, after a while the novelty wears off.

  • Abuelseed

    let  him sit on the last row :) ..nobody will see his back.

  • Nimblejack

    Hey School Administraters, since it’s “THE END OF THE SCHOOL YEAR” and not the beginning or middle, Cut the Lad a break. As for Mr Matt Bonner, use this opportunity for some Professional Public Relations and give the kid and his mother free tickets to your next game and have them site right next to the press box. As for myself i was born with strawberry blonde hair so i can feel for this young fine upstanding member of our community.
    Go Redheads. 

  • Dave

    They shouldn’t be wearing new clothes, carrying new purses, new backpacks, new calculators or ipads or laptops, as all of these “new” things would be a distraction to everyone in the class that doesn’t have these things, especially if they’re the latest and greatest of these items…  Much less, a new haircut…  It would be a fad, or only a distraction for a day or two until the initial attraction to it wore off…  We Americans sure are pissed when someone violates our freedoms…  Yet we are the same Americans that feel we need to oppress the freedoms of those we don’t agree with…    Damn hypocrites…  Just sayin’…

  • Watterboy2005

    Mels3232,
    ur stupid. So u should say no kids are allowed to get hair cuts or coloring while you’re at it. I knew a guy in high school that had hair down to the middle of his back for years then one Monday morning he showed up with a nice buzz cut. Should he have been suspended too? I think that almost every kid in school came up to him and commented on his new do. Bottom line is schools are going waaaaay to far these days with their lame ass so-called rules.

  • Phan

    funny, at first glane i thought it was trey anastasio from the band phish!

  • guest

    really, could you put the text in a different color so it could be read

  • Marty0419

    distracting are all the middle school girls with titties bigger than many women in their 30′s, now thats a distraction, a freaking haircut is not a distraction….what the fuck is wrong with this country!!!!

  • Ellen

    please, don’t we have real problems to deal with?  He can be seated in the back of the classroom or in the front facing the rest of the class.  Why not focus on a bigger problems like bullying.  Articles like this help draw attention to the kid and his awesome haircut. 

  • Sjb57

    Seriously, someone thought this was atrocious?  This is great, its clever and artistic.  How sad that we want to drum out all individuality from our kids.  Remember when they wouldnt let girls wear pants to school, only dresses and skirts?  Sometimes rules are meant to be broken so that greater minds and hearts eventually preside.

  • Doobius

    Kid will probably get a meet and greet and playoff tix for the absurd overreaction… Let the kid show his team pride!

  • Donald Conard

    I guess if a TV star or Music star went to school there, They would be kicked out for being a distraction. Like Justin Bieber!!!!!!!!

  • menkai

    In theory if the school bans him for whatever time frame, it violates his first amendment rights…The alternative is to have the student sitting at the back of the room where no one can be distracted.

  • Dennis Shimmel

    If it in reality it causes  an uproar AFTER the first day then make him wear a stocking hat. Come on People PLEASE lets get real with the freakin rules!

    • Kibosh

      It’s San Antonio in May the weather today is predicted to get up to 88*, would you be wearing a stocking cap?

  • Dennis Shimmel

    IDIOT!

  • Kibosh

    I applaud you Patrick Gonzalez.

    Stand up for what you believe in, have your voice heard, or in this case buzzed into the side of your noggin. This is symbolic speech, a first amendment right and we cannot and should not deny this youngster his freedoms of speech. If we start by denying him the right to display his love for the local sports players and fellow gingers where does it end? That cute girl with the blonde hair, make her shave her head too, her long golden locks are equally as distracting as Matt Bonner.

    I say Mr. Gonzalez begin a Bonner Sit-in during his in-school suspension. Come to school proud everyday with your ginger head held high and Matt Bonner prominently displayed across your cranium. Organize as many students as you can to get the “Bonner Cut” and over run the system; they can’t put you all in detention. Tell them loudly Mr. Gonzalez, that you will not stand for this treatment and yell it to the world “Give me Bonner or give me detention!”

    at least until the Sonics (Thunder) beat you in the next round…

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/P6OZTT6ZDDENKSCWHXYAKSE6XA s37en

    you know what a distraction is, TRAYVON. not a haircut. its the economy stupid and it always will be, no matter how hard the president wants to make this a RACE WAR. worry about liberal moron teachers brain washing your kids. not hair cuts

 

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