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A Black Texas high school student who was suspended because his loc hairstyle violated the district’s dress code was suspended again upon his return to school Monday, an attorney for the family told CNN.

Darryl George has been suspended for more than two weeks because his loc hairstyle violates the Barbers Hill Independent School District dress and grooming code, according to his family.

The code states that “male students’ hair will not extend, at any time, below the eyebrows or below the ear lobes,” CNN previously reported.

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[–] PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world 30 points 1 year ago (5 children)

The actual dress code written in the article is:

Male students’ hair must not extend below the top of a t-shirt collar or be gathered or worn in a style that would allow the hair to extend below the top of a t-shirt collar, below the eyebrows, or below the ear lobes when let down.

It’s basically “no long hair, regardless of how it is styled.”

[–] Kichae@kbin.social 23 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Land of the free, home of the "long hair is only for girls".

[–] zzzzz@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This view is rooted in 1 Corinthians 11:14-15 "Does not nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a disgrace for him, but if a woman has long hair, it is her glory? For her hair is given to her for a covering".

I have no point to make beyond pointing that out as trivia.

[–] Kichae@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Modern depictions of Jesus in shambles.

[–] Trebach@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Paul said a lot of things in his letters that only could have possibly made sense in the time and place of the person/city he was writing to. Yet almost 2000 years later, people are still taking it as an absolute truth.

[–] assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Paul flat out contradicts the Bible at points. Doesn't he say to refuse food to people in your commune if they aren't working?

His sexism doesn't make sense either. There is a very heavy implication in having the women who followed Jesus maintain their faith and belief when even the disciples did not. Maybe it's unintentional, but it very clearly suggests that the women are far more pious and holy. Paul has no business saying they have no dominion over him.

[–] thecrotch@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] zzzzz@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

Right? I wonder how Paul thought about that?

[–] Buelldozer@lemmy.today 4 points 1 year ago

More like Racist School District is Racist As Fuck. Texas passed a law making this shit illegal, primarily because of this exact School District!

[–] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 1 points 1 year ago

If you have to tell people how free they are, they're not.

[–] MiltownClowns@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Not quite. He is not really wearing a style that would allow the hair to extend below the collar, brows, or lobes because he can't just take out his hair style. Its not a pony tail to be removed and distract all the boys like in the movies, its been documented to be in place for at least 8 days. And even if he did his hair could stick straight out or stright up. Seems like the dress code was written for white people hair and instead of using any sort of common sense to not enforce or even just change the code the school is doubling down on murky rules in the national eye. If it walks like a racist, talks like a racist, and deprives black people of an education because of their hair its probably a racist.

[–] Imotali@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

We need to start living by the "see a racist/Nazi, punch a racist/Nazi" standard.

[–] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Common sense would help if it was an oversight. It's not.

[–] Wrench@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So, no male Sihk students are allowed, unless there's a religious exemption.

[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You think this backwater bunch of racists gives a fuck about religions that aren't their particular flavor of Christian?

[–] 30mag@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Probably not, but they do allow religious exemptions.

The principal may grant an exemption to any of the above provisions if a student has a disability or medical condition rendering compliance with the provisions detrimental to the student’s physical health or if a student requests and is approved for a religious exemption. A student who wishes to receive a disability or religious exemption from the dress code must complete and submit the dress code exemption form, which is available on each campus and on the District website.

https://www.bhisd.net/fs/resource-manager/view/0a5c185d-5719-4e62-bc86-2734b4725685

[–] billiam0202@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

below the ear lobes when let down.

You know, I was coming in here to make a joke about how when the article says

male students’ hair will not extend, at any time, below the eyebrows or below the ear lobes

they would say that "any time" also applies when he takes a shower at home, but the code literally says that. Yikes.

[–] ech@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago

That's such fucking bullshit. Might as well demand a buzzcut and be done with it.