  When someone put a set of rules in place it's for a reason, right? Well usually thats the case... People don't just tell you not to run by the pool because everyone else does. They tell you because you the chances that you slip, fall and hurt yourself are greater on a slippery wet surface.
So what are some of the big reasons people put rules in place? reason number 1: what you're doing is dangerous and might cause injuries and who wants to get hurt anyway? reason number 2: what you're doing is breaking something of value example: jumping on the couch breaks the springs and causes the seating to sag wich makes the couch uncomfotable. By making the couch uncomfortable you are defeating the purpose of the couch wich is to have a comfortable place to sit so... Duh! don't jump on the couch! reason number 3: what you're doing in this specific situation is unfair... Thats why there are rules in a game or competition.
Example you take turns playing and each of you plays the same amount of turns before the end of the game unless another rule contradicts it. I think those are the biggest reasons to put rules in place. Now basing yourself on those rules please explain to this simple minded person wich is myself why my high school would put these folowing rules in place.
1-Students are not to die their hair if the color chosen is unatural. (this means we can't have pink or blue hair. ) 2- Female students are not to wear bandanas. (head towels. ) 3- The school nurse is not permitted to give any medical remidies to any student whatever the reason without a permisson from one of the students parents ( sure they need to tell our parents if they want to give us a tylenol but if we get pregnant they are bound to secrecy! ) this just goes to show sure there is a reason for these rules. But how will it hurt or hinder anyone if my hair is purple?
Are our schools so terrified that they need to stop all self expression? I know for a fact that our principal is pushing to for us to cover up all tatoos and body piercings (we are a public school by the way not some super-exclusive private establishment) I know many people do not find these things apealing but the world is moving forward and even the most down to earth people are getting piercings and tatoos and some of them are not in places that can be hidden easily. Some have piercings on their lips and eyebrows and others have tatoos on their wrists and necks are they doomed to wear long sleeves and turtlenecks if they wan't to go to school? If the times are changing then shouldn't the rules do so accordingly? If there are more ways of expression in this era doesn't that mean there is a need for such a thing.
What is happening around us is not a jump into the oblivion it is simplty moving forward to the future and if we are moving so quiclky it is because we can and because we are truly prepared for it. We strive for a future we don't know yet but how can we accept it if we constantly run to the past for reasurance? We have taken a world and molded it to our uses now it is time to use what we have created for its purpose to support our future. So please parents teacher and historians we need to know the past of course it's important but we need to move toward the future. The past is over and cannot be changed but there is so much future to come. Let us remember our past and learn from it as we move towards a future and keep in mind that even our future will be the past to someone 
