Legal Opinion
Independent School District No. 8 of Seiling v. Swanson
Supreme Court of Oklahoma
Decided June 1, 1976No. 48253PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SIMMS, Justice.
This litigation concerns the validity of a student hair code adopted by the Board of Education of the Seiling Public School District. Plaintiffs are four male students of the district (one each from the high school and junior high, and two from the elementary school) who were threatened with imminent suspension by their respective principals, if, within five days, they failed to cut their hair so that the length conformed to that required by the code.
The code in question required boys to wear their hair “above [the] eyebrows, collars and ears” and the high school boys were…
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