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You know the saying about how “No good deed goes unpunished,” yes?<\/p>\n

A Colorado girl tried to do a good deed for a friend and got punished by her school for violating its dress code.<\/p>\n

Talk about a zero-tolerance policy for kindness.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/2014\/03\/25\/girl-barred-from-school-for-shaving-her-head-to-support-friend-with-cancer\/?cmpid=cmty_twitter_fn<\/p>\n

Grand Junction, Colo., student Delaney Campbell suffers from cancer. Chemotherapy has made her hair fall out. She’s bald. Her best friend, Kamryn Renfro, shaved her head to show support for her pal.<\/p>\n

The school sent Kamryn home because head-shaving violates school dress code policies.<\/p>\n

The uproar has been quick and vigorous. The school has been criticized vehemently for its strict adherence to a policy that some have argued is irrelevant in this case. Is shaving one’s head violating a “dress code”? Good question.<\/p>\n

As for Kamryn’s display of solidarity with her best friend, the school would have been wise to waive the rules in this instance and let the girls stand together. Delaney’s condition prompted a 9-year-old pal to perform an act of kindness — which she did with her parents’ permission.<\/p>\n

The story might end well for everyone, though.<\/p>\n

The school, a private academy, has allowed Kamryn back to class, where she’ll remain pending a board of directors meeting set for tonight.<\/p>\n

Let’s hope sanity prevails and the board declines to punish a little girl for performing a good deed on her friend’s behalf.<\/p>\n\n

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You know the saying about how “No good deed goes unpunished,” yes? A Colorado girl tried to do a good deed for a friend and got punished by her school for violating its dress code. Talk about a zero-tolerance policy for kindness. http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/2014\/03\/25\/girl-barred-from-school-for-shaving-her-head-to-support-friend-with-cancer\/?cmpid=cmty_twitter_fn Grand Junction, Colo., student Delaney Campbell suffers from cancer. Chemotherapy has made … Continue reading 'Dress code' needs revisiting<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1323,2623,4135],"class_list":["post-5106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-delaney-campbell","tag-kamryn-renfro","tag-school-dress-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}