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<text id=90TT3226>
<title>
Dec. 03, 1990: American Notes:Education
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
Dec. 03, 1990 The Lady Bows Out
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<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
NATION, Page 57
American Notes
EDUCATION
Hair-Raising Punishment
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<body>
<p> The euphemism is "alternative education setting," but
"solitary confinement" would be more accurate. For more than six
weeks, school officials in Bastrop, Texas, have sentenced
eight-year-old Zachariah Toungate to a 10-ft. by 13-ft.
isolation room all day. His crime? Refusal to cut his 7-in.
ponytail. Zach is taught by substitute teachers but is banned
from his gym classes and from eating in the cafeteria. He says
he has nightmares that the walls of the classroom will close in
and crush him.
</p>
<p> Zach's parents Stanley and September Toungate have appealed
to the school board, but it has refused to halt the confinement,
as did a state district court judge. The school's
superintendent, Paul Fleming, defends the dress code and the
punishment. Zach and his parents may take the case before the
U.S. Court of Appeals. If girls are allowed to wear their hair
long, they insist, boys should be too.
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</body>
</article>
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