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.
I am appalled that people continue to not make headline (heh) puns about hairstyle issues at Barber Hill High School.
This is the only thing that matters. Most of the comments are just snippy teens saying “you can’t tell me what to do”
It never ceased to amaze me how US schools are being run like concentration camps. How very land of the free.
Time to decide what’s important. Education or hairstyle.
Do you mean that worrying about someone’s hairstyle is completely outside of the scope of- and detrimental to the resources of- education? Or that someone’s specific hairstyle can be detrimental to the quality of education received itself?
Neither
Why? That’s an arbitrary rule you just came up with.
Because he’s missed 80% of his classes, which won’t help with the challenges he will already face as black man, and because this would be a silly hill to die on.
