Texas student suspended over his loc hairstyle days after state's Crown Act takes effect
Texas student suspended over his loc hairstyle days after state's Crown Act takes effect
A Black Texas high school student has been suspended for more than a week because his loc hairstyle violated the district’s dress code, his mother said. It could become a test of a new state law that bans discrimination based on hairstyles.
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Darryl George, a junior at Barbers Hill High School in Mont Belvieu, received multiple disciplinary action notes and was placed on in-school suspension for wearing his locs hairstyle in a ponytail, his mother, Darresha George, told CNN.
She said 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.
According to the article, the school district has a current lawsuit against them for doing the same thing to two other black students in 2020.
The superintendent at the time said, “people want to call us racist, but we’re following the rules, the law of the land." Like, yes, that's one form of racism, setting up and using systems and institutions which disproportionally affect people based on membership of certain races or ethnic groups. I'm pretty sure he knows that but is just covering his ass.
17What a shitty school. But I couldn’t help but laugh at the name “barbers” hill heh
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
A Black Texas high school student has been suspended for more than a week because his loc hairstyle violated the district’s dress code, his mother said.
She said 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.
Allie Booker, an attorney representing the family, told CNN she believes the rules around male hairstyles single out Black students.
Locs, a hairstyle in which hair strands are coiled, braided, twisted or palm-rolled to create a rope-like appearance, is a style that originated in Africa and has become a part of Black culture.
Both students wore loc hairstyles and had been asked to cut them to comply the district’s policy on hair length, CNN previously reported.
Later that year, a federal court issued a preliminary injunction blocking the district from enforcing its hair-length policy against Bradford’s son.
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