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ever since man stopped running around naked human beings have been in the habit of evaluating their fellows on their dress and appearance, the so called straight community and what's now dubbed hippies tend to put each other in narrow categories simply because of their appearance. In marin

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county Tamalpais High school district has run head on into this kind of situation over the issue of how long the hair should be on the athletes at Redwood high School or should there be any such rule regarding hair length at all? The hair length controversy escalated

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into the resignation, both real and threatened by some school personnel and threatened recrimination against some students. The long existing hair length rule was suspended by school superintendent robert terry pending a study on the relative merits of such a rule. Young people today face a tremendous number

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of value choices and a rapidly changing world. They are intelligent. They are well informed. Your tv cameras have to keep them uh informed and bring them a kind of instantaneous information that we didn't have when we were young people, they have learned to ask questions, they

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have learned to show their, their reactions to the answers to these questions and various forms of behavior. I think it takes a lot of tolerance to understand young people today is the so called generation gap a factor and making education relevant to the students. I think

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the generation gap is a factor and I do agree with the school of thought that the gap between this generation and its parents is greater than the than probably ever existed in the past before. The question of relevance, I think is largely a question of young

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people being better educated and more intelligent and feeling absolutely free in terms of the kind of schooling they've received in our country these days to ask questions and to get reasonable, expect reasonable answers for them. And when they do ask questions and they get answers which

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they don't regard as reasonable or when they think it through, they find as it is not reasonable, then they regard the rule, if that's what we're talking about right now is irrelevant and they question it or they oppose it or they otherwise express disapproval of it.

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I think the crisis, if if that's what we have has brought to the fore a great many very important value questions that every public educational system in the country should be facing. The question has been asked by some in the community, why was the rule on

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the length of hair suspended rather than the students being suspended when the problem arose? So I felt that the rules should be suspended because I feel this is a, the athletic program is a very valuable educational experience for our young people. They should not be restricted

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from participating and getting the advantages of that program because of any rule which many of us very seriously questioned. The school administrators are now faced with the task of developing a retake school administrators are now faced with the task of developing an educational structure to which

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the students can relate and at the same time creating an atmosphere which the parents can support. It's not an easy task. This is Evan White reporting for eyewitness news from Marin County.