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.
Why do schools care what length someone’s hair is anyway? Are they just power mad control freaks?
Yes. Schools exist to make your kids into little workers for their kids.
Because everyone should look like everyone else. Like clones. After all working in the factories needs co-ordination.
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I had dyed blue hair in highschool, I think this must be an American thing
America is huge, it varies wildly by region. Nobody in my area gives a shit about stuff like that, and didn’t ~25 years ago when I was in HS either
I had some punk students with non-natural hair colors when I was a high school teacher in California, and that was a long time ago. Nobody cared. This story is from Texas, though.
Good question. I think we all know the answer to why they’re making an example out of this kid.
Is the admin white? Well there ya go.
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”
snippy
I see what you did there.
Can you cut it out, pleez ;)
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Sounds like some racism was involved.
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Hair below eyebrows and ear lobes? What year is this, 1962?
It is even worse than that. He wears his hair in a way that the it does not go below his eyebrows and ear lobes. But the school is mad that it could . It makes my blood boil.
It’s absolutely terrible, they’re setting him back while he stands up for his rights.
That hair is awesome too. Fuck them.
I hope he wins a lot of money from the delays he’s received and punitive damages beyond that.
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How can anyone blatantly break a law and not get charged? The state has a law prohibiting what these school admins are doing so why aren’t the police called and charges filled against them? I’m guess the police are fine with whatever racist authoritarian bullshit the school does.
How can anyone blatantly break a law and not get charged?
The letter of the law means nothing if the people in charge of enforcement don’t agree with it.
Two words; flawed democracy
Nah, say it like it is. Racism.
Potato/potato
I knew this case was a slam dunk* the second I heard about it. Not just because it’s ridiculous but because this exact scenario has been through the courts before.
The voters should hold the school board accountable for the tax dollars they wasted and vote them out.*
^* ^This ^is ^Texas ^though ^so ^everything’s ^made ^up ^and ^the ^points ^don’t ^matter.
Texas even has a law forbidding this. I lived in Houston for a few years, and it’s actually astonishing the General Assembly passed a law to forbid discrimination of hair style.
Just to give you a general idea of how fucked up these school officials are. They’re worse than the worst of Texas.
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Oh no I think they are going for being both racist and sexist.
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Working’s not a choice; it’s a privilege…
Sorry; I just made that up for fun.
How about heavy metal hair? That banned 🚫 too now?
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Time to decide what’s important. Education or hairstyle.
Yes, it is time for the school to decide that. And then decide that his education is more important than what they think about his hairstyle.
I wished the school would pick education but I’m not hopeful
No, that’s already been decided at the state level (note the summary pointing out that Texas passed the Crown Act, which makes it illegal for admins to consider hairstyle more important than education).
Now is the time for the racists who refuse to acknowledge that decision to lose their fucking jobs.
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.
Because he’s missed 80% of his classes
Looking at other articles it looks like that missed classroom time was for continued suspensions over his hairstyle.
This effort has apparently been backed by the district superintendent.
Greg Poole, who has been district superintendent since 2006, said the policy is legal and teaches students to conform as a sacrifice benefitting everyone.“When you are asked to conform ... and give up something for the betterment of the whole, there is a psychological benefit,” Poole said. “We need more teaching (of) sacrifice.”Just for bonus points the school district’s policy is not only racist but sexist. This policy only applies to males.
Barbers Hill Independent School District prohibits male students from having hair extending below the eyebrows, ear lobes or top of a t-shirt collar, according to the student handbook. Additionally, hair on all students must be clean, well-groomed, geometrical and not an unnatural color or variation. The school does not require uniforms.I have no idea what “geometrical” hair would be.
“When you are asked to conform … and give up something for the betterment of the whole, there is a psychological benefit,”
We want you all to be good little soldiers so when you graduate, you can go off and be good little soldiers.
I can’t believe I had to scroll this far to find this quote - anyone else horrified that a school superintendent can say this and think it’s ok? Military school, sure, it serves a purpose that may save your life, but this doesn’t appear to be a military school, and conformity is not an educational value
Put that together with this kid missing 80% of the year so far over hair and there’s something seriously wrong with that school.
I mean, it’s a weird hill for the kid to die on, and I don’t see how it’s in his interest to do this, but it’s a serious failing of the school to impact his education like this
How in the fuck does this guy’s hair affect anybody else in literally any way? Absurd
The superintendent with his comment has made it clear it has nothing to do with hair, and everything to do with exerting control and punishment when that control is rejected.
I know. It was kind of a rhetorical question.
Time decide what’s important. Compliance or your culture/spiritual/personal identity
Just a touch of genocide makes it okay!
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
Everyone decided, it’s education. The dumbfucks on the schoolboard haven’t gotten the memo, but they will…
