Black Texas student given additional suspension for loc hairstyle | CNN
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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.

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.

  • Buelldozer@lemmy.today
    1451·
    1 year ago

    This particular School District has pulled this stunt so many times that the State of Texas passed a damn law, called the CROWN Act, to make them stop! They’re back it claiming that the CROWN Act doesn’t regulate length or color.

    • assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world
      28·
      1 year ago

      When the Texas legislature and Abbott both think you’ve gone too far right, you’ve catastrophically fucked up on an inhumane level.

    • paholg@lemm.eeEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      At what point do they start firing the people in charge of the school district?

    • foggenbooty@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      I’m amazed at the lengths some people will go to for such trivial things. I’m not surprised at all that a school had an old rule, or that they’ve been called out on it. But to try to bypass laws to enforce such a, let’s be real, silly rule of no real consequence, is just amazing.

      I just can’t put myself in the head of some principal wo believes dress codes are the most important thing in the world. Just fucking back down.

      • Zanothis@lemm.ee
        1·
        1 year ago

        The principal doesn’t give a shit about the dress code beyond how it can provide a way to hurt black students. In that context it becomes obvious that they’re going to extreme lengths because they consider inflicting harm to be important.

    • endhits@lemmy.world
      2·
      1 year ago

      At this point I think that they’re doing this knowing it’ll result in a lawsuit.

      I wonder if they’re just fanning the flames to make it look like the government is le 1984 for not letting them have racist policy in their schools.