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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.

  • PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.worldEnglish
    27·
    1 year ago

    The actual dress code written in the article is:

    Male students’ hair must not extend below the top of a t-shirt collar or be gathered or worn in a style that would allow the hair to extend below the top of a t-shirt collar, below the eyebrows, or below the ear lobes when let down.

    It’s basically “no long hair, regardless of how it is styled.”

    • MiltownClowns@lemmy.world
      18·
      1 year ago

      Not quite. He is not really wearing a style that would allow the hair to extend below the collar, brows, or lobes because he can’t just take out his hair style. Its not a pony tail to be removed and distract all the boys like in the movies, its been documented to be in place for at least 8 days. And even if he did his hair could stick straight out or stright up. Seems like the dress code was written for white people hair and instead of using any sort of common sense to not enforce or even just change the code the school is doubling down on murky rules in the national eye. If it walks like a racist, talks like a racist, and deprives black people of an education because of their hair its probably a racist.

      • themeatbridge@lemmy.world
        10·
        1 year ago

        You think this backwater bunch of racists gives a fuck about religions that aren’t their particular flavor of Christian?

        • 30mag@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          Probably not, but they do allow religious exemptions.

          The principal may grant an exemption to any of the above provisions if a student has a disability or medical condition rendering compliance with the provisions detrimental to the student’s physical health or if a student requests and is approved for a religious exemption. A student who wishes to receive a disability or religious exemption from the dress code must complete and submit the dress code exemption form, which is available on each campus and on the District website.

          https://www.bhisd.net/fs/resource-manager/view/0a5c185d-5719-4e62-bc86-2734b4725685

    • Billiam@lemmy.world
      13·
      1 year ago

      below the ear lobes when let down.

      You know, I was coming in here to make a joke about how when the article says

      male students’ hair will not extend, at any time, below the eyebrows or below the ear lobes

      they would say that “any time” also applies when he takes a shower at home, but the code literally says that. Yikes.

    • Ech@lemm.eeEnglish
      11·
      1 year ago

      That’s such fucking bullshit. Might as well demand a buzzcut and be done with it.