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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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[–] xkforce 66 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Dress codes are like THE tool schools use to punish students that they dont like. eg. minorities, girls, anyone that doesnt conform to gender norms i.e trans kids etc. They cant get away with coming out and saying "whites only" so they selectively enforce the rules to target anyone they want.

[–] NegativeInf 35 points 1 year ago

I got suspended once for wearing a shirt with an anatomical drawing of a human skull on it. Like annotated and shit. I got sent to the principal multiple times for wearing simple eyeliner. They would literally force us to shave our faces with shitty disposable razors in a school bathroom if we had stubble. I've been able to grow a full beard since freshman year. I was more of a distraction covered in little cuts and nicks that my fucking stubble ever was. And this was over 11 years ago. I'm sure shit has only gotten worse in the little country towns in Texas. I have zero respect for any authorities figures. The only thing this kinda bullshit teaches you is to hate those with a modicum of power and to wish for the collapse of society.

[–] Wrench 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

To be fair, this rule was probably created to specifically oppress hippies. The "whites only" unspoken rule was probably enforced by the community at large.

The current administration has simply co-opted the anti hippy rule for racism!

[–] ASeriesOfPoorChoices 1 points 1 year ago

While you're not wrong, dress codes are also used to reduce bullying (rich and poor kids tend to look more similar) and truancy (going into arcades during the day in school clothes is noticeable).

[Reduce. I didn't say stop.]

One of the schools I went to had recently (as of when I was there) relaxed its code so that you only had to wear a plain white shirt (with the school logo, which you could buy separately) and blue pants (jeans counted). I say this only to say: not all dress codes are overly oppressive and evil. And it's so much easier never having to think about what to wear. The Steve Jobs of school wear.

But yeah, how it's being used here is complete BS.