In 2017, a story of a five-year-old boy asking for cutting his hair like his best friend to confuse the teacher went viral.
Jaxon Rosebush, from Kentucky, was so sure that with the same haircut as his best friend Reddy Weldon, his teacher wouldn’t be able to tell them apart.
“Can I get it cut like Reddy’s?” 5-year-old Jax asked.
“We’re going to trick the teacher,” he told Rosebush.
“It is just two innocent boys. Obviously, they see they are different colors, I just taught him to love everyone the same,” she said.
The Facebook post of these two two best friends became viral and won the Internet. “He was like ‘yea so we can trick the teacher because we’ll look just alike. She won’t be able to tell the difference between the two of us’ And I know what Reddy looks like so that made me chuckle” said Jaxon’s mom Lydia.
“You’re gonna be bald!” Reddy giggled as the hairdresser started shaving.
Reddy’s dad who was also at the salon to see the outcome of the boy’s haircut said, “It’s really cool to see that move from our family, right into his relationships with his friends. And there’s an innocence that children have that sometimes we lose, so if we could get some of that back, I think it would be amazing.”
Both families are happy that their sons have formed a strong relationship and with each other.
When Reddy arrived at school before Jax, he told the teacher and his classmates he was Jax. The teacher pretended that she was talking to Jax.
“They are both pretty mischievous little boys,” Rosebush said. “They are both kind of funny.”
“If this isn’t proof that hate and prejudice is something that is taught I don’t know what is. The only difference Jax sees in the two of them is their hair.”
“He still has no idea why people care so much,” Rosebush said. “He wanted to look like Reddy … now he thinks they look the same.”
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