Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: What's a nice kid like you doing in a place like this?

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: What's a nice kid like you doing in a place like this?:

What's a nice kid like you doing in a place like this?

Kamryn (left) and her pal Delaney. 

A SMALL TALK SALUTE goes out to Caprock Charter School third-grader Kamryn Renfro who had shaved her head over the weekend to show support for good friend 11-year-old Delaney Clements who lost her hair from chemotherapy. The charter board in its wisdom, voted to kick her out of school until her hair grew back. It seems that baldness violates their school dress code. But Kamryn and her family hung tough, raised hell, got overwhelming public support, a social-media firestorm erupted and the family won a reversal of the ruling allowing her to take her rightful seat back. My only question is, what's a nice kid like Kamryn doing in a charter school run by such creeps? One board member even voted again to expel her.

Prof. JVH

MY FAVORITE UT PROF Julian Vasquez Heiligrecalls our appearance on Rag Radio last month in Austin and somehow links me and host Thorne Dreyer to hippie-dom and the beat generation (Fighting for Public Education with the Activist Hippies, the Original Hipsters). He's only partially