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.
The code states that “male students’ hair will not extend, at any time, below the eyebrows or below the ear lobes,” CNN previously reported.
Furthermore, the code demands that none of the students will be listening to those heathen Beatles.
If having a dumb ass haircut in HS is suspension worthy, I’m sure glad that my HS didn’t have a similar rule.
training them for the racist workforce
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’m confused how does this not conform to those guidelines?
Why does a public school even get to dictate what I do with my body. Clothes fine whatever. But hair is my body.
“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.”
Ah, I see now… still they can suck 87 dicks with a dress code like that. “You can’t look how you want when not here either?”. Fuck that.
He had them up, and they said if he ever put them down then they would violate it…
It’s total.bullshit, he got suspended for a hypothetical
You’re suspended because if you wore your hair differently it would violate the dress code
Am I the only one seeing this kid’s picture and thinking he’s the least offensive teenager I’ve seen this week?
Schools having no fucking clue what to do and suspending kids aside, that they made him sit on a stool for 8 hours is some barbaric shit. Like when teachers wake kids up if they’re taking a nap in study hall.
Education, knowledge, and learning are great. Fuck teachers, schools, and administrators. Also fuck these racist pieces of shit especially
Looks like something you’d see in Mario kart LOL at least get some dreads that look good kid
Grow up Texas
Dress code standards for hair and appearance are pretty dumb… but even as they are written in this school district, I don’t understand how this kid’s hair violates it.
The code says the hair can’t extend below the eyebrows or below the ear lobes…and this kid’s hair is above his eyebrows and above his ear lobes. I’m looking at the student’s front, side, and back photos that are attached to the linked news article. What is the problem?
From the interview, his mother says it’s because if he let his hair down it might “extend below the eyebrows or below the ear lobes”. I think it’s a poorly written policy, because in my interpretation, he would only be in violation if he let his hair down, but he’s in compliance as long as he never does that at school. And even then, would for example, an afro violate that? It sounds like they should have included in the policy “male students’ hair will must be no longer than 3" at any point" but again, that’s a poorly written policy, waiting for holes to be punched in it.
It’s well written for its intended purpose.
I’m assuming that his hair was slightly different from when this picture was taken. Not that it matters even a little bit. Codes like this are written for the purpose of giving authorities an excuse to persecute. Wouldn’t be surprising if they ignored plenty of violations from “upstanding” (read: white) students.
The “problem” is hes black and the school wanted to punish him for that. But they dont want to just come out and say it just like they didnt want to show their faces back in the days of the klan.
As far as I can tell, the “problem” is that the dresscode states that the student’s hair can’t extend below his eyebrows or ear lobes “at any time”. So, hypothetically, if this student took his hair down out of the braids, it would be longer than the dresscode allowed.
This, of course, is fucking stupid reasoning. The school probably just doesn’t like this hairstyle - because racism - and is choosing to use an overly literal reading of the rule to try to force the student to change it.
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.”
Land of the free, home of the “long hair is only for girls”.
More like Racist School District is Racist As Fuck. Texas passed a law making this shit illegal, primarily because of this exact School District!
If you have to tell people how free they are, they’re not.
This view is rooted in 1 Corinthians 11:14-15 “Does not nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a disgrace for him, but if a woman has long hair, it is her glory? For her hair is given to her for a covering”.
I have no point to make beyond pointing that out as trivia.
Sucks to be Samson
Right? I wonder how Paul thought about that?
Modern depictions of Jesus in shambles.
Paul said a lot of things in his letters that only could have possibly made sense in the time and place of the person/city he was writing to. Yet almost 2000 years later, people are still taking it as an absolute truth.
Paul flat out contradicts the Bible at points. Doesn’t he say to refuse food to people in your commune if they aren’t working?
His sexism doesn’t make sense either. There is a very heavy implication in having the women who followed Jesus maintain their faith and belief when even the disciples did not. Maybe it’s unintentional, but it very clearly suggests that the women are far more pious and holy. Paul has no business saying they have no dominion over him.
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.
That’s such fucking bullshit. Might as well demand a buzzcut and be done with it.
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.
Common sense would help if it was an oversight. It’s not.
We need to start living by the “see a racist/Nazi, punch a racist/Nazi” standard.
So, no male Sihk students are allowed, unless there’s a religious exemption.
You think this backwater bunch of racists gives a fuck about religions that aren’t their particular flavor of Christian?
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I just wanna say I think this hairstyle is beautiful!
Agreed! It looks really good. The fact he was suspended for this is an absolute disgrace by that district.
That’s my biggest issue here, beyond racism, what right does a public school have to tell a student what they can do with their body? This was meant for the other comment
Not only is his hairstyle beautiful, it suits his face extremely well. If I were his mother I would fight them all to let him keep it as it is (or move to a better disrict, if I had the means)
The code states that “male students’ hair will not extend, at any time, below the eyebrows or below the ear lobes” CNN previously reported.
Is this school stuck in 1959?
What is this? The tiny town from Footloose?
It’s a small town in Chambers County, Texas.
More like 1859
Pure poppycock!
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Ruby Bridges is still alive. MLK Jr would be
7094 if he weren’t assassinated. This isn’t something that’s a relic of the ancient past. It’s something we’re barely starting to address in the current day.Small correction - MLK Jr would be 94 today. He was born in 1929.
Ah, correct. I was accidentally looking at his marriage year. My mistake.
You’re right, of course, but I was referring to the times when such attitudes were considered somewhat acceptable in some places, not the unfortunate fact that they’ve endured.
Those attitudes are definitely considered acceptable in more places than you may think. We’ve made substantial progress from wide acceptance of “these groups aren’t really people” bullshit, but not nearly as much as we really should have.
Jesus would get suspended.
Yeah, Texas isn’t kind to those of us with unique hairstyles.
I mean… he kind of did.
Nailed it
J-dawg is always hanging around.
It is Texas so yeah.
They want that All American Good Ol’ Boy Johnny Unitas, not that scandalous hippie ne’er-do-well Joe Namath
What do you want to bet that the code for “female students” is at least three times as long and contains the words “leg skin”?
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The land of the free
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Also Conservatives: No, not like that! My feelings!!!
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.
The CROWN Act sailed through the Texas Legislature with strong bi-partisan support and Gov Abbott even held a formal signing ceremony for it. How god damned racist do you have to be that even those people think you’ve gone too far?
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.
At what point do they start firing the people in charge of the school district?
Only if they’ve got blue tinges to their politics, otherwise, nah, yer good. Do what you like.
If it’s anything like my state, the board members make that decision and they are elected by the community. So that point is probably far, far away.
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.
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.
When the Texas legislature and Abbott both think you’ve gone too far right, you’ve catastrophically fucked up on an inhumane level.
