Texas high school sends Black student back to in-school suspension over his locs hairstyle
The student, Darryl George, was suspended for 13 days because his hair is out of compliance when let down, according to a disciplinary notice issued by Barbers Hill High School in Mont Belvieu, Texas. It was his first day back at the school after spending a month at an off-site disciplinary program.
George, 18, already has spent more than 80% of his junior year outside of his regular classroom.
He was first pulled from the classroom at the Houston-area school in August after school officials said his braided locs fell below his eyebrows and ear lobes and violated the district’s dress code. His family argues the punishment violates the CROWN Act, which became law in Texas in September and is intended to prohibit race-based hair discrimination. The school says the CROWN Act does not address hair length.
Why do schools care what length someone's hair is anyway? Are they just power mad control freaks?
It's Texas, so my money is on a few good ol' boys who 1.) don't appreciate the kid's skin color, 2.) don't love that he's nationally embarrassed them for the fools they are, and 3.) are dense enough to believe they can still "win" this thing.
Yes. Schools exist to make your kids into little workers for their kids.
Because everyone should look like everyone else. Like clones. After all working in the factories needs co-ordination.
Its generally conservative viewpoints of fitting people into "the norm". Conservatism/traditionalism doesnt stop in the U.S, japan has schools for example that require students dye their hair black and conform to a very atrict uniform. Although that requirement was dropped very recently in tokyo(like 2021), it likely still exist in some regions.
Yes. Schools have cultures just like anywhere else. Once the administration has a sufficient number of power-hungry losers, this is the end result.
They can never do anything wrong. It is always someone else's fault for everything. And all of them reinforce this mentality in each other.
It's disgusting.
I had dyed blue hair in highschool, I think this must be an American thing
America is huge, it varies wildly by region. Nobody in my area gives a shit about stuff like that, and didn't ~25 years ago when I was in HS either
I had some punk students with non-natural hair colors when I was a high school teacher in California, and that was a long time ago. Nobody cared. This story is from Texas, though.
Is the admin white? Well there ya go.
Good question. I think we all know the answer to why they're making an example out of this kid.
I am appalled that people continue to not make headline (heh) puns about hairstyle issues at Barber Hill High School.
Sounds like some racism was involved.
That'll teach him! Not math and stuff, though.
It's always confused me why schools think suspension would be an effective punishment when the kid often doesn't want to be in class anyway (not in the case of this kid obviously) and definitely won't be learning anything.
It's what you do when you can't deal with a child to prevent them fucking up other people's schooling.
I guess it also puts pressure on the parents to do something.
Except, at least when I was in school, they're not given schoolwork to do when in suspension. They just have to sit there and do nothing all day. They don't learn anything.
When I was in school your teachers would put together work for you to do.
And this student's hair is interfering with other peoples' schooling by....
Well his locks are too long. So it's obviously a security concern since other students could trip over them and fall. /s
Except it's not used like that, it's used to discipline anything they feel is a "big" deal.
Funny story, I got a week suspension in middle school for bringing a low powered laser to school. On the same day friend of mine lit a fire in his desk and got 3 days.
The school admin was pushing for a much worse penalty for me for some reason and my parents flipped their shit and somehow got it "reduced" to a week.
They'd give me ISS or suspend me for...skipping class.
I've never heard the term "in-school suspension". It sounds like what I remember as "detention", but done during what would otherwise be the school day, yeah? On top of this being some blatant racism, it seems like a really poor use of school resources.
They call it 'in school suspension' (ISS) to differentiate from out of school suspension, where the student is sent home and told not to return for a period of time. Typically ISS is overseen by a faculty member and the students are given relevant workbooks/sheets to whatever courses they're enrolled in to complete and they are required to be quiet, work alone, and are not allowed to used phones/entertainment.
At least, that's how it was when I was still in highschool (2014).
ISS is literally just detention. Your put into a classroom where you can't talk to anyone, or do anything besides your work. You even take a separate lunch time then everyone else.
Detention for me was something you did after school. Essentially you were kept late.
In-school suspension is just like detention during school hours.
Hair below eyebrows and ear lobes? What year is this, 1962?
It is even worse than that. He wears his hair in a way that the it does not go below his eyebrows and ear lobes. But the school is mad that it could . It makes my blood boil.
It never ceased to amaze me how US schools are being run like concentration camps. How very land of the free.
Get me out of here
How can anyone blatantly break a law and not get charged? The state has a law prohibiting what these school admins are doing so why aren’t the police called and charges filled against them? I’m guess the police are fine with whatever racist authoritarian bullshit the school does.
The letter of the law means nothing if the people in charge of enforcement don't agree with it.
Two words; flawed democracy
Nah, say it like it is. Racism.
Potato/potato
I knew this case was a slam dunk* the second I heard about it. Not just because it's ridiculous but because this exact scenario has been through the courts before.
The voters should hold the school board accountable for the tax dollars they wasted and vote them out.*
^* ^This ^is ^Texas ^though ^so ^everything's ^made ^up ^and ^the ^points ^don't ^matter.
Texas even has a law forbidding this. I lived in Houston for a few years, and it's actually astonishing the General Assembly passed a law to forbid discrimination of hair style.
Just to give you a general idea of how fucked up these school officials are. They're worse than the worst of Texas.
This is STILL going on?!? That school district is shit.
This means all girls can't have hair below their eyebrows and ear lobes? Surely there are instances of white girls being punished for this, right?
Oh no I think they are going for being both racist and sexist.
Damn. Imagine wanting to work for a society that treats you like this.
Working's not a choice; it's a privilege...
Sorry; I just made that up for fun.
How about heavy metal hair? That banned 🚫 too now?