A judge ordered Wednesday that a trial be held next month to determine whether a Black high school student in Texas can continue being punished by his district for refusing to change a hairstyle he and his family say is protected by a new state law.
Darryl George, 18, has not been in his regular classroom in Barbers Hill High School in Mont Belvieu since Aug. 31. Instead, he has either been serving in-school suspension or spending time in an off-site disciplinary program.
His Houston-area school district, Barbers Hill, has said George’s long hair, which he wears in neatly tied and twisted locs on top of his head, violates a district dress code that limits hair length for boys. The district has said other students with locs comply with the length policy.
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In the ad, Poole defended his district’s policy and wrote that districts with a traditional dress code are safer and had higher academic performance and that “being an American requires conformity.”
districts with a traditional dress code are safer
Trying to wrap my head around the concept of “dangerous hair.”
“traditional dress code” seems like code for white people in this case.
Clearly it’s the hair that’s the problem with their culture, and not the generational lack of wealth.
Show me how many black people inherit a house vs whites. Show me how crime rates drop in areas where more homes are owned outright, with no rent or mortgage.
Nah, it’s probably the hair.
it’s a code word for racism
Countries with gun control laws are safer.
Schools have no business whatsoever in their students’ hair.The Shop teacher has assigned you to rewatch the PowerPoint.
There were a couple of girls in my shop class. They didn’t have short hair.
Thank god they were kicked out of class; it’s just so unsafe.
No, this is total bullshit. The school needs to lose some leadership and I can’t imagine how they’d win this.
If the student somehow doesn’t win, I’ll have even less faith in the justice system than I already do.
Oh, and this isn’t quite the point, but I’ve seen pictures of his hair from other angles. It’s cool as hell.
It’s fucking Texas. Don’t get your hopes up
Yeah. The CROWN Act is the only reason I have any hope at all. Otherwise, I’d say this kid is fucked.
Yeah. The CROWN Act is the only reason I have any hope at all. Otherwise, I’d say this kid is fucked.
I just want to point out that my understanding is that this school district is the reason for the CROWN Act, adding yet another layer of stupid to how the superintendent is conducting himself.
Honestly the prospects of winning against a dress code policy in general is really slim, but it being in Texas has my expectations extremely low in this case.
This school principal used “conformity” as an American principle, implying the kid was being anti American or foreign in some way. Black Americans and their hairstyles are just as American, if not more so than that of white Americans, many who don’t have roots to this land as deep as that of some black Americans. This is another example of racist, white administrators, who think that only a white American is a true American.
This is utterly ridiculous and such a thinly veiled racism. It’s disgusting that a school principal and members of the school board collectively want to punish this kid so badly for being black they’d go to court to do it.
If there’s a go fund me or other fundraiser for court costs for this kid and his family, I’d gladly throw money at it.
Wouldn’t it include sexism as well. It states for boys…
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The law bans discrimination against hairstyles that are “commonly or historically associated with race”. The school district is in clear violation of that law.
The actual law is supposed to protect minorities. The school district is just in fantasy racist land.
Being an American requires respect of others, originally different religions, and now encompass race. Who still cares about hair style as long as it isn’t whipping in someone else’s face.
Looks like you drank the propaganda lol. Being an American is about bombing brown children for oil.
Don’t forget rampant consumption!
it’s incredible there are still guys who act like a grade school dress code is some sort of sacred biblical text. just really makes your skin crawl. imagine believing in something like that. imagine taking time out of your day to punish someone over their hair and thinking you’re a noble servant of the barber’s hill tradition. what the fuck dude
oh and also the virulent racism
imagine taking time out of your day to punish someone over their hair and thinking you’re a noble servant of the barber’s hill tradition. what the fuck dude
When you think “being an American requires conformity” and consider yourself the arbiter of that conformity, it makes pretty good sense. Especially if you are a racist old shitbag.
I hope he wins and sues the school but mainly the principal into the ether. Good for him and his family for supporting him
America was founded in a rebellion against tyranny. Conformity was for royalists, who undermined the revolution and some of whom later served as spies or fought with the British Empire.
These people wave flags and pretend they embody American ideals when they’ve never even understood those ideals, much less even made an effort to live up to them.
The Revolution was fought because rich men hated paying taxes. The same reason we’re on the verge of a second civil war, now.
Ironically, all these conservative “patriots” would have been Tories back in day.
No taxation without representation.
It wasn’t just taxes. It was taxes that were being taken out of their community that they had no say in.
Texas gets more representation in our government than any other state not named California.
And you know where Texas money goes? 60% goes back to Texas. The rest goes to Arkansas, Mississippi, West Virginia, New Mexico, and Kentucky.
Bloody royalists
That’s a hilariously bad interpretation on why the colonialists came here, and then eventually rebelled against the monarchy. Or even the culture of the colonials.
Hilariously bad.
Whatever you say, champ.
Nobody knows
These people wave flags and pretend they embody American ideals when they’ve never even understood those ideals, much less even made an effort to live up to them.
Remember, these are the same people who were amazed to find that RATM was not only political, but held positions in opposition to theirs. They assume all worthy ideals conform to their worldview, and consistently fail to look any deeper until forced to do so.
Sounds like the school needs to conform to the changes of society!
I like that the two people who literally wrote the law the school is currently breaking were at the hearing to confirm that the law covers this
violates a district dress code that limits hair length for boys.
This is a thing?
I’m actually glad they have so many pictures of him in the article. Lmfao, how is that too long???
My hair looks longer than that and it’s a standard dude haircut.
I just googled mens haircuts:
Seriously, almost half of these are longer than this guys hair. None of them would be suspended.
Here is the link of the top 70 styles for men:
https://www.gatsbyglobal.com/en/technique/best-haircuts-men-top-mens-hairstyles-today/
There are obviously haircuts for men that are shorter but I wouldn’t even put this kids hair, as styled, in the middle of the hair length bell curve.
Yup, Texas schools are authoritarian hell holes.
It’s not about the hair length. It’s mostly because he’s black, but it’s also about asserting power. .
He’s black.
The length doesn’t matter, the CROWN Act says that districts can’t discriminate against hairstyles that are “commonly or historically associated with race”. His hairstyle has been worn by African Americans for over 400 years. The law doesn’t say that they can discriminate against “commonly or historically associated with race” of a certain length.
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the CROWN Act says that districts can discriminate against hairstyles that are “commonly or historically associated with race”.
- can’t
oh man, is it just me or were pretty much all of the examples in that list absolutely awful looking. not saying the styles they mentioned aren’t fine or good, just their choices for pictures. i hated almost every single one of them, and I’m normally one who likes bolder styles on men… also, the single nod to the existence of black hair halfway through 😅.
Yea, the single black guy in there…has longer hair than this guy.
The first one was modern mullet, after like 25 different styles you are going to get some blunder years type of cuts
A bunch of Take me to McDonald’s cuts in that list.
Same people in Texas make fun of North Koreas defined list of hairstyles probably lol
Seriously, what is offensive about his hair?
His skin color.
Hopefully it’s obvious I don’t agree with that statement, but at the end of the day, that’s what this case is really about.
Hey, it’s also about power trips and compliance. “You WILL do what I said” kind of thing.
I know. Ridiculous.
The end of segregated schools was not that long ago. Growing up it seemed like forever ago, a whole other time and place. Apparently they’re still on the menu if you go far enough south though
violates a district dress code that limits hair length for boys
I get the racism angle here, but isn’t this an open and shut case of sexism?
Sadly, SCOTUS has basically decided that schools can do pretty much whatever they want with school uniforms and dress codes. It doesn’t serve any valid purpose, but proponents will say BS like " it distracts from the educational experience ".
Because it’s a part of dress code, it’s basically tradition to separate by gender on the topic. Just like how women are required by law to cover their nipples in the USA.
