Blue Haired Kid Gets Kicked Out Of School
For the past week or so, I’ve been hearing a lot about Adam Zussino, a 13 year old student who was kicked out of school for sporting blue hair. The grade 7 student, along with the rest of his Peewee A hockey team, dyed their hair blue for the playoffs, probably because they are too young to grow playoff beards.
Mario Melchiorre, principal of St. Catherine of Siena school, asked Zussino to leave, stating he was breaking the dress code with his coloured hair. There were reports claiming his blue hair indicated some sort of gang relations, which is simply ridiculous. As we all know, most gangsters dye their hair outrageous colours so they can easily be recognized…
The story caught the attention of Don Cherry, who invited Adam and a few of his teammates out to the Hershey Centre for some photos and autographs. Now that it’s been plastered all over the news, the school and Adam Zussino have come to a “friendly compromise,” but the principal refused to describe what the compromise was.
I’m pretty sure I know what the “compromise” was. They let the kid keep his blue hair, and in return, the principal stops looking like a douche drumming up bad publicity for the school.
January 29th, 2008 at 2:20 pm
I saw this story on the news too and couldn’t believe it. Is the city of St. Catherine’s so under siege by gang-related activity that a 13 year old could be mistaken as a gang member? What nonsense. That prinicpal needs to lighten up, or at the least educate himself as to how gang signals actually work.
January 30th, 2008 at 8:56 am
Yeah, I don’t get it at all. The kid is in grade seven… It was blatantly obvious he dyed his hair blue to support his hockey team. Bringing up the gang comments was very stupid of the school officials. Hair colour isn’t going to affect anything, except maybe cause a few reactions from other students. But that would be over with in five minutes, and life could go on as usual.
February 20th, 2008 at 3:24 pm
In grade 9 I had blue, green, purple and red hair.
I didn’t get in trouble at all. When I had Blue hair, one teacher said to me:
“What did ya do Mike, fall in the Tub?”
I guess the water ‘might’ of changed my hair blue??? I didn’t get it.