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A Black Texas high school student who was suspended because his loc hairstyle violated the district’s dress code was suspended again upon his return to school Monday, an attorney for the family told CNN.
Darryl George has been suspended for more than two weeks because his loc hairstyle violates the Barbers Hill Independent School District dress and grooming code, according to his family.
The code states that “male students’ hair will not extend, at any time, below the eyebrows or below the ear lobes,” CNN previously reported.
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A chuddish coworker of mine tried to spin this scenario on me like “Imagine you were suspended for having green hair. What would you expect to happen?”
I told him I’d expect my fellow students to stage a walkout in my honor and if that fails, to burn the school down, because it’s clearly not a serious institution if it’s banning students from an education on the basis of superficial things like a student’s hair.
It’s hard to believe they still suspend kids for nondisruptive hairstyles. This rule is a relic of old school homophobia.
The code states that “male students’ hair will not extend, at any time, below the eyebrows or below the ear lobes,” CNN previously reported.
???
I guess “at any time” includes when showering and washing their hair at home.
China bad
Darryl George must be living in North Korea. He must have the Kim hairstyle otherwise he can’t go to school. DPRK bad.
For real, I don’t know how anyone can claim USians are living in the most free country in the world.
Typical behavior for US fascist scum. Too bad that school shooters always target random innocent students rather than the fascists in charge of the schools.
See, the problem is that even if they go after the principals, it’s not necessarily even their fault – the superindendents on the other hand…
Actually Existing Cultural Genocide
The code states that “male students’ hair will not extend, at any time, below the eyebrows or below the ear lobes
I still remember going to schools with this rule, made any hairstyle impossible as I had a small forehead, and the teachers would make you undo your hairstyle or combover or whatever to check the length. Buzz cuts done with a trimmer guard shorter than a 3/4 inch / 9mm / a “three” length guard were also not allowed.
WTF, they didn’t allow buzz cuts either?!
Buzzes were allowed, but the hair had to be longer than 9mm. That’s what I mean with the guard lengths. It was done to prevent a skinhead or chiskop look. Basically you were allowed to have a buzzcut, but not allowed to be completely bald.
Sure, I get what you’re saying, but I wouldn’t consider ¼ inch or even ⅛ inch “bald” by any means. I would consider that a normal buzz cut.
Yeah all the rules were stupid, I didn’t understand them either
How the fuck do they not have anything better to do? Good for him, keep stickin’ it to the man.
How is this not flying in the face of the CROWN act which literally just went into effect before the second time he was suspended? Are they hoping to challenge that law or are they just hoping they get away with it? Or are they stupid and haven’t been advised yet?
I would say I’m ashamed to live in Texas, but I already was. I try not to call myself an American or Texan citizen, given the genocide that Amerikkka and Tex-ass inflicts on my Latino and Chicano brothers and sisters and enbies.
Hopefully it will become Tejas again in the near future
i just left texas and it blows my mind when people willingly move there
Blows my mind as well. If I may ask, where did you move to? I’m hoping to move to Shanghai one day.
Unless you’re moving from like Somalia or Ukraine or something and aren’t legally or financially able to move anywhere else, I can’t reasonably understand why someone would move to Texas.
