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

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I am surprised to see that Texas passed this law.



It Just Never Ends!!!

Texas High School Student Suspended Indefinitely and Forced to Sit '8 hours/day on a stool' because of his Hairstyle.

Darryl George, a junior at Barbers Hill High School in Mont Belvieu, Texas has been serving an ongoing suspension for 2 weeks because his hair is "too long". The school confines him to a small cubicle at a desk on a stool.

"He has to sit on a stool for eight hours in a cubicle,” his mother said. “That’s very uncomfortable. Every day he’d come home, he’d say his back hurts because he has to sit on a stool.”

This young man is being kept from learning because the school says that they don't allow boys to have hair that extends under their eyebrows or ear lobes. His hair is always pulled up like you see here.

Note that Texas just passed a law that outlawed racial discrimination based on hairstyles

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A Black student was suspended for his hairstyle. The school says it wasn’t discrimination
https://apnews.com/article/hairstyles-dreadlocks-racial-discrimination-crown-act-034a59b9f2652881470dc606b39e5243

By Cheyanne Mumphrey and JUAN LOZANO


Updated 3:30 PM CDT, 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.

George, 17, has been suspended since Aug. 31 at the Houston-area school.......................

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The law, an acronym for “Create a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair,” is intended to prohibit race-based hair discrimination and bars employers and schools from penalizing people because of hair texture or protective hairstyles including Afros, braids, dreadlocks, twists or Bantu knots. Texas is one of 24 states that have enacted a version of the CROWN Act.

A federal version of the CROWN Act passed in the House of Representatives last year, but was not successful in the Senate.




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Michigan bans hairstyle discrimination in workplaces and schools
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1. Barber's Hill?

[TygrBright]

2. Good grief, there is not ONE. DAMN. THING. wrong with that hair.

Seriously. Go look at the picture. It is neat, it is off the face, well-groomed, clean, dare I even say attractive, as hairstyles go? Elegant, anyway.

The ONLY thing about it that any racist asshole could possibly object to is the color of the skin under it.

Back when the dinos roamed the suburbs of my childhood, you'd get turfed for persistently "messy" hair, including persons with Y chromosomes wearing too much 'product' or wearing the hair too long, persons without Y chromosomes with too much ratting in their bouffant, etcetera, and there was a kind of stupid logic to it... it could be distracting, to worry about whether the grease would drip down onto yer desk from the kid sitting in front of you, or whether whatever was nesting in Betty Jean's bouff mightn't find its way onto you somehow.

But this? Dayum, the only distraction is a sigh of admiration.

And that should never be cause for disciplinary action.

Dumb arseholes.

disgustedly,
Bright

[twodogsbarking]

3. He looked very nice as you stated. Bet he gets good grades too. What next, no black skin?

Oh wait.............

[catrose]

4. There's no way his hair would be hanging in his eyes

Or past his shoulders. It’s very neat. And as for the principal who thinks students should make sacrifices for the common good—
1. How does that even apply here?
2. What was principal’s attitude towards masks for the last 3 years?