Why do schools care what length someone's hair is anyway? Are they just power mad control freaks?
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It's Texas, so my money is on a few good ol' boys who 1.) don't appreciate the kid's skin color, 2.) don't love that he's nationally embarrassed them for the fools they are, and 3.) are dense enough to believe they can still "win" this thing.
Yes. Schools exist to make your kids into little workers for their kids.
Because everyone should look like everyone else. Like clones. After all working in the factories needs co-ordination.
Its generally conservative viewpoints of fitting people into "the norm". Conservatism/traditionalism doesnt stop in the U.S, japan has schools for example that require students dye their hair black and conform to a very atrict uniform. Although that requirement was dropped very recently in tokyo(like 2021), it likely still exist in some regions.
Are they just power mad control freaks?
Yes. Schools have cultures just like anywhere else. Once the administration has a sufficient number of power-hungry losers, this is the end result.
They can never do anything wrong. It is always someone else's fault for everything. And all of them reinforce this mentality in each other.
It's disgusting.
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Is the admin white? Well there ya go.
Good question. I think we all know the answer to why they're making an example out of this kid.
I am appalled that people continue to not make headline (heh) puns about hairstyle issues at Barber Hill High School.
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Sounds like some racism was involved.
That'll teach him! Not math and stuff, though.
It's always confused me why schools think suspension would be an effective punishment when the kid often doesn't want to be in class anyway (not in the case of this kid obviously) and definitely won't be learning anything.
It's what you do when you can't deal with a child to prevent them fucking up other people's schooling.
I guess it also puts pressure on the parents to do something.
Except, at least when I was in school, they're not given schoolwork to do when in suspension. They just have to sit there and do nothing all day. They don't learn anything.
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And this student's hair is interfering with other peoples' schooling by....
Well his locks are too long. So it's obviously a security concern since other students could trip over them and fall. /s
Except it's not used like that, it's used to discipline anything they feel is a "big" deal.
Funny story, I got a week suspension in middle school for bringing a low powered laser to school. On the same day friend of mine lit a fire in his desk and got 3 days.
The school admin was pushing for a much worse penalty for me for some reason and my parents flipped their shit and somehow got it "reduced" to a week.
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I've never heard the term "in-school suspension". It sounds like what I remember as "detention", but done during what would otherwise be the school day, yeah? On top of this being some blatant racism, it seems like a really poor use of school resources.
They call it 'in school suspension' (ISS) to differentiate from out of school suspension, where the student is sent home and told not to return for a period of time. Typically ISS is overseen by a faculty member and the students are given relevant workbooks/sheets to whatever courses they're enrolled in to complete and they are required to be quiet, work alone, and are not allowed to used phones/entertainment.
At least, that's how it was when I was still in highschool (2014).
ISS is literally just detention. Your put into a classroom where you can't talk to anyone, or do anything besides your work. You even take a separate lunch time then everyone else.
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Hair below eyebrows and ear lobes? What year is this, 1962?
It is even worse than that. He wears his hair in a way that the it does not go below his eyebrows and ear lobes. But the school is mad that it could . It makes my blood boil.
It's absolutely terrible, they're setting him back while he stands up for his rights.
That hair is awesome too. Fuck them.
I hope he wins a lot of money from the delays he's received and punitive damages beyond that.
Yeah. They're preventing him from getting his education for some racist bullshit.
Everyone who has a hand in this pie needs to be fired and future wages garnished to repay him for what he's lost.
We can even do the math to find out how much it costs to educate 1 student for 1 day and then multiply that by how many days he's been suspended.
It never ceased to amaze me how US schools are being run like concentration camps. How very land of the free.
I don't think you understand how concentration camps worked if you use that sentence.
Pestering a kid about his hair style is literally the same as starving him in a prison camp
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How can anyone blatantly break a law and not get charged? The state has a law prohibiting what these school admins are doing so why aren’t the police called and charges filled against them? I’m guess the police are fine with whatever racist authoritarian bullshit the school does.
How can anyone blatantly break a law and not get charged?
The letter of the law means nothing if the people in charge of enforcement don't agree with it.
I knew this case was a slam dunk* the second I heard about it. Not just because it's ridiculous but because this exact scenario has been through the courts before.
The voters should hold the school board accountable for the tax dollars they wasted and vote them out.*
^* ^This ^is ^Texas ^though ^so ^everything's ^made ^up ^and ^the ^points ^don't ^matter.
Texas even has a law forbidding this. I lived in Houston for a few years, and it's actually astonishing the General Assembly passed a law to forbid discrimination of hair style.
Just to give you a general idea of how fucked up these school officials are. They're worse than the worst of Texas.
This is STILL going on?!? That school district is shit.
said his braided locs fell below his eyebrows and ear lobes
This means all girls can't have hair below their eyebrows and ear lobes? Surely there are instances of white girls being punished for this, right?
Oh no I think they are going for being both racist and sexist.
Damn. Imagine wanting to work for a society that treats you like this.
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Well thank fuck these school officials are protecting students from this hairrorist. Show the world we will not accept acts of hairrorism in schools! No matter how backward and stupid it makes us look! Even when state law says we’re not allowed to do this! Stay strong, delicate white leadership! It’s For The Children we deny this young man an education!
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