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.
violated the district’s dress code
hair fell below his eyebrows and ear lobes
I’m sorry, but WTF? Are they mandating everyone dress like skinheads or what?
I assume just the boys. Girls can probably have longer hair… as long as it’s not in a “harlotous style” or some nonsense like that.
I don’t get it…just switch districts if the hair is that important.
Ah yes, let’s police everyone’s hair. Surely it won’t matter when we decide your hair is unacceptable and you must change or leave.
I’m certainly not going to go to a private school where they expressly said my hair isn’t acceptable.
