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.
Is this school stuck in 1959?
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”?
Ruby Bridges is still alive. MLK Jr would be 70 94 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.
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.
… Darryl was suspended the same week the state’s CROWN Act, a law prohibiting discrimination based on one’s hair texture or protective hairstyle such as locs and braids, went into effect.
This is what systemic racism looks like in real life.
The code states that “male students’ hair will not extend, at any time, below the eyebrows or below the ear lobes,” CNN previously reported.
Why do male and female students have different dress codes? WTF does the school system care if boys have longer hair? Apart from safety issues like being in a workshop class, why does anyone in the school system think they have the right to control who can and can’t have certain hair lengths?
Yo, is anyone else getting really sick of this overreach of power and authority? I’m not referring to the economic and political relations. Those aside, I’m talking about this crap where people are starting to get involved in personal matters of appearance, medicine, gender, and even straight bs crap like a high school band finishing a song. This is getting way out of hand. Our culture is rotting with power and control issues at the expense of individual liberties.
I’m talking about this crap where people are starting to get involved in personal matters of appearance
I’m sorry to inform you, it used to be worse. Women rape victims used to not come forward because one of the main things that would be shoved in their faces was “how they dressed” and “were they asking for it.”
That bullshit has been a throughline in US culture for fucking decades. I’m in my forties and when I was in high school, girls had ridiculous dress codes that were clearly sexist and clearly icky as fuck. Why would male authority figures be so obsessed with young women not being “too revealing” unless they’re the creepy fucks who are staring?
Not to mention all the rules about men’s pants sagging in the 90’s. A rule that seemed aimed at young black and latino men in particular.
Believe it or not, it’s better than it was in the 90’s. It’s still bad, it’s still bullshit, but it’s not new.
I’m sorry to inform you, it used to be worse. Women rape victims used to not come forward because one of the main things that would be shoved in their faces was “how they dressed” and “were they asking for it.”
It still happens.
Racial targeting aside, I think there’s a big difference between visible underwear and a hairstyle. It’s not the same conversation
yes it is. Both categories are arbitrary, enforced selectively and originate on discrimination
It’s completely illegal per Bostock too. If it’s sex discrimination to fire a man for having a husband but not for a woman for having a husband, it’s sure as hell discrimination to tell a man that he can’t wear his hair a way a woman can.
I think this has been established for school sports even – if the school doesn’t offer a gender equivalent team, someone of the opposite gender must be allowed to apply for the only team. It basically makes teams unisex unless there’s distinct teams.
This school district must be the absolute dregs of Texas for even the legislature and Abbott to say “okay you guys need to stop doing this”.
The only thing that’s really distinct from Bostock is the fact that this person is a minor. I can imagine an outcome where they conclude it’s not illegal because only adults possess the right not to be discriminated against.
Constitutional protections such as the first amendment apply to minors as well.
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 what point do they start firing the people in charge of the school district?
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.
Well it is considered poor form to just put ‘NO BLACKS’ in the prospectus.
They had to get creative.
