Lovelyish

Awww how awful. It looks adorable on her. 

She looks so cute! That school needs to calm down and worry about real issues.

Aw the bow is beautiful, I’d have objected the animal print scarf over a printed t shirt but that’s just me lol

she looks so cute!! to me that has absolutely nothing to do with the rule for picture day.  thats just retorted you have so many other things to worry about.

It’s against the rules, but it does look adorable on her. If my child wanted a picture with a hairstyle/clothing style that was against school rules, I would take the pictures myself or get a professional photographer that would personalize the picture instead of rushing her through.

No, that is silly of the school officials.  However, like someone mentioned, I would say that the printed top and scarf would probably be worse offenders than the hair bow.  I think she looks adorable though.  The requests of school’s photo dress code sounds ridiculous, what is wrong with brightly colored bows, braids or beads?

@babybug329@xanga - @Erika_Steele@xanga - I wonder what they do about girls with cornrow braids, I see lots of African girls with their hair in mini-braids every day

@Trueinnerbeauty - I wonder, too.  Honestly, I feel schools put too much emphasis on the wrong aspects of a child’s life–school should focus on education, the reason to attend school.

You know, I don’t even like Lady Gaga, and I think that hairstyle is freaking cute.

@AnnaMac - I totally agree the little darling looks great

The hair style is not a braid or have beads…The bow is natural hair it is not an added bow so the rule really isn’t broken just bent a little

She’s four years old. Schools have gotten so out of control with their rules and regulations. There has to be more important things going on in the school other than a little girl putting her hair up into a bow.

@Trueinnerbeauty - it sounds like they are trying to keep that out of the school, thats how it read to me. 

@Trueinnerbeauty - that was my first thought as well.

a good friend of mine has a daughter who had just gotten her hair done in intricately beaded cornrows, and school officials told her that braids/beads were not allowed. my friend told them that if they were wiling to reimburse the 75 dollars she had paid for a hairstyle that should last 3 weeks, then she would gladly re-do her daughters hair. They chose not to, so my friend submitted an earlier photo of her daughter without braids which was put in the yearbook.

Moral of the story – who cares what a child’s hair looks like. its their hair, and if their parents approve, the school has no right to intervene – especially if it is a public school.

@Trueinnerbeauty - those girls probably couldn’t wear their hair that way at that school for photo day (I didn’t see that part when I first read it).  Although I get the feeling that if there was a sizable amount of African-American girls at her school, we wouldn’t be having the conversation because the school may not have made this kind of rule.  It’s a silly rule.  As long as the child is clean, and groomed, I don’t understand what the big deal is.  

How the fuck does hair violate the dress code -_-

In 14 years that little girl will graduate high school, look at this photo, and say “holy shit, that is soooooooo 2012!”  It’s gonna be hilarious, the school should have kept it.  

SHE LOOKS SO CUTE. I’d take her to get professional photos of her and use those as her picture day photo, instead of using the school ones and being reminded of these stuffy officials. This is why Gaga made the song “I’m as free as my hair”. Take that.

That’s so dumb the school freaked out.

I think she looks adorable. 
Ridiculous.

Bull. I can only MAYBE POSSIBLY KINDA SORTS imagine the hair bow colors be because of the photographs themselves and the lighting-whatnots, otherwise, those are just dumb rules that make me sad for this little girl.

Her hairstylist DAD did this himself!

No photo, school or otherwise, has the capability of determining how a child will grow up, excepting those related to criminal activities, etc., of course. The same can’t be said for anything that prevents a child from having the freedom to explore within reasonable bounds and that’s what bothers me about this story. It seems to me that people “in authority” let it go to their heads all too often and have trouble dreaming up all the ways they can tell others what to do, how to do it, ad nauseum.  If there’s no danger, what is the harm?

Actually it was her father who did her hairstyle that way, he father is a hairstylist.

Their argument against it is that it isn’t in any way a braid, It’s actually just a knot in the shape of a bow.
In a small sense, I can see why the school didn’t want her to have this hairstyle because it was probably a distraction with the other girls, but in her defense, it’s picture day, It’s a cute, classy look and there should be some exception since it isn’t an everyday thing.

cute.. i like how all the hair’s pinned up as a bow. 

She broke the rules by having her hair done, so no exception should be made for her. If they made one for her, they’d have to make one for everybody. That mother was foolish to spend a lot of money on that hairdo that wasn’t even allowed in the first place.

Wow… I didn’t realize they had rules for picture day… I mean, certainly, the kid can’t be naked or representing something obscene but… Specific bow colors..? 

that’s too bad because she looks sooooooo cute!

No braids? That’s stupid. 

School photographs are not a catwalk.

She is cute, but… did she really wated this, or isn’t it her mother’s fantasy to make her a little “celebrity” ?

Honestly…  I’d rather spend half way decent amount on photos of me and my family (dressed up how we pick) than go through trouble with the school on picture day. Yes, I would want my future children to look cute on their picture day.

Sadly, it seems like schools and their words have changed since I was that age.But school, in the end, is a place for learning. I’d rather save that hairstyle for a family photo shoot.

What the… You can’t wear your hair a certain way in school? Who is running this show?