A Texas high school sent a Black student back to in-school suspension for refusing to change his hairstyle, renewing a monthslong standoff over a dress code policy the teen’s family calls discriminatory.

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.

  • Diplomjodler@feddit.de
    5817·
    1 year ago

    It never ceased to amaze me how US schools are being run like concentration camps. How very land of the free.

      • Steve@startrek.website
        218·
        1 year ago

        Pestering a kid about his hair style is literally the same as starving him in a prison camp

        • squirmy_wormy@lemmy.world
          11·
          1 year ago

          The comment isn’t phrased like sarcasm though. Sarcasm would be something like:

          God, American schools are just like concentration camps, how do you handle it?

          And even then, being sarcastic here with a phrase like that would mean that this is a dumb thing for people to complain about, which also isn’t true.