Black Student Suspended For Hairstyle

[foxy]

A Black student was suspended for his hairstyle. The school says it wasn’t discrimination

BY CHEYANNE MUMPHREY AND JUAN LOZANO
Updated 4:30 PM EDT, September 18, 2023


MONT BELVIEU, Texas (AP)— A Black high school student in Texas has served more than two weeks of in-school suspensions for wearing twisted dreadlocks to school. When he arrived Monday with the same hairstyle, he was suspended again, his mother said.

Darryl George, a junior at Barbers Hill High School in Mont Belvieu, was initially suspended the same week his state outlawed racial discrimination based on hairstyles. School officials said his dreadlocks fell below his eyebrows and ear lobes and violated the district’s dress code.

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[foxy]

From the photo, I see nothing extreme or inappropriate for a school dress code. A kid shows up for school clean and neat leave them alone. If this is his heritage and his family is proud if it that's a good thing in my book.

To each their own. Everyone has their own traditions and religious beliefs and yet we are all Americans, a great and colorful quilt each segment bound to the next forming one cover. E Pluribus Unum - from many one.

[deyana]

I agree,foxy, no need to suspend him. That rules makes no sense.

[sauerkraut]

I'm not a big fan of any dress codes, I guess they had a strict dress code in the Senate but since that one democrat senator wears shorts they changed the senate dress code.
What difference does it make how ya wear your hair, cut yer hair, or button up yer shirt or the length of a Ladies dress and things like that. As long as you get the job done that ya came there to do. In the case of school as long as ya learn and pass the class.