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Jilly_in_VA

(10,877 posts)
Tue Dec 5, 2023, 04:03 PM Dec 2023

Texas high school sends Black student back to in-school suspension over his locs hairstyle

A Texas high school sent a Black student back to in-school suspension Tuesday for refusing to change his hairstyle, renewing a monthslong standoff over a dress code policy the teen’s family calls discriminatory.

The student, Darryl George, was suspended for 13 days because his hair is out of compliance when let down, according to a disciplinary notice issued by Barbers Hill High School in Mont Belvieu, Texas. It was his first day back at the school after spending a month at an off-site disciplinary program.

George, 18, already has spent more than 80% of his junior year outside of his regular classroom.

He was first pulled from the classroom at the Houston-area school in August after school officials said his braided locs fell below his eyebrows and ear lobes and violated the district’s dress code. His family argues the punishment violates the CROWN Act, which became law in Texas in September and is intended to prohibit race-based hair discrimination. The school says the CROWN Act does not address hair length.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/texas-high-school-sends-black-student-back-school-suspension-locs-hair-rcna128193

Texas just gonna Texas, nothing anybody can do about it.

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Texas high school sends Black student back to in-school suspension over his locs hairstyle (Original Post) Jilly_in_VA Dec 2023 OP
Its fucking hair gay texan Dec 2023 #1
I see many white kids with that hair style. nt doc03 Dec 2023 #2
Wth IS it with authorities' obsession with hair, anyway??? snot Dec 2023 #3
What's so bad about his hairstyle? Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Dec 2023 #4

gay texan

(2,860 posts)
1. Its fucking hair
Tue Dec 5, 2023, 04:21 PM
Dec 2023

They pulled this same shit in my Texas high school.

There were seniors in my class that couldnt read, but they were well groomed.

snot

(10,702 posts)
3. Wth IS it with authorities' obsession with hair, anyway???
Tue Dec 5, 2023, 05:32 PM
Dec 2023

It's been going on for decades, at least.

I'd rather they focussed on the idea of knowing people by their deeds, not their hair-do's.

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