A Black student was suspended for his hairstyle. The school says it wasn't discrimination
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The same week his state outlawed racial discrimination based on hairstyles, a Black high school student in Texas was suspended because school officials say his dreadlocks violated the district’s dress code.

The same week his state outlawed racial discrimination based on hairstyles, a Black high school student in Texas was suspended because school officials said his locs violated the district’s dress code.

Darryl George, a junior at Barbers Hill High School in Mont Belvieu, received an in-school suspension after he was told his hair fell below his eyebrows and ear lobes. George, 17, wears his hair in thick twisted dreadlocks, tied on top of his head, said his mother, Darresha George.

George served the suspension last week. His mother said he plans to return to the Houston-area school Monday, wearing his dreadlocks in a ponytail, even if he is required to attend an alternative school as a result.

  • gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    18·
    1 year ago

    Meanwhile I saw kids of any color hauled out of my school for wearing ANY red

    Literally every other rule was flaunted daily but if you wore red they’d drag your ass to the admin office to take your shoelaces for the day (saw that one) or wear one of the embarrassing and huge and overused day use shirts (happened to a friend), didn’t matter who you were

    Just a funny story about my weirdly strict in some ways high school

        • shalafi@lemmy.world
          4·
          1 year ago

          Thought it was a dumb question, but I couldn’t get my head around it. So Crips are all good at this school?! And who the hell wears purple? I’m old and out of touch.

          • gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            3·
            1 year ago

            Both colors were local gangs of almost nobodies. Technically the blue one fed to the Crips somehow but idk I didn’t hang out with those guys much

            Blue was one of the schools colors so they couldn’t ban that, but RED SCARRRRYYYY

            I think they’ve finally lifted that now almost 10 years later

          • ANGRY_MAPLE@sh.itjust.works
            2·
            1 year ago

            Some crips in California wear them, IIRC. It could be regional, too.

            Smaller gangs will sometimes use a colour that’s unused in their area, even if it might already be known to represent something else in another place.

            My school has so many problems with that that they banned any non-black shoelaces and also implemented an expensive uniform that was ugly.