The family of a Black high school student in Texas on Saturday filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the state’s governor and attorney general over his ongoing suspension by his school district for his hairstyle.
Darryl George, 17, a junior at Barbers Hill High School in Mont Belvieu, has been serving an in-school suspension since Aug. 31 at the Houston-area school. School officials say his dreadlocks fall below his eyebrows and ear lobes and violate the district’s dress code.
George’s mother, Darresha George, and the family’s attorney deny the teenager’s hairstyle violates the dress code, saying his hair is neatly tied in twisted dreadlocks on top of his head.
Yeah. In my experience you’re still getting all of your classwork and you’re getting instruction. But you’re isolated from your peers.
In this instance especially it’s fucking stupid. But in theory his education is not being completely interrupted by this bullshit
I know a lot of people were shitting on it under my comment, but honestly it seemed a better deterrent than actual suspension. Out of school you could just fuck off and do whatever. Sitting on a corner was boring as shit and was something to avoid.
Yeah, it doesn’t make sense to impact an individuals education. The kind of kids who get in trouble are not going to be set on the straight and narrow by being left at home alone all day.