The code states that "male students' hair will not extend, at any time, below the eyebrows or below the ear lobes" CNN previously reported.
Is this school stuck in 1959?
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What do you want to bet that the code for "female students" is at least three times as long and contains the words "leg skin"?
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What is this? The tiny town from Footloose?
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... Darryl was suspended the same week the state’s CROWN Act, a law prohibiting discrimination based on one’s hair texture or protective hairstyle such as locs and braids, went into effect.
This is what systemic racism looks like in real life.
The code states that “male students’ hair will not extend, at any time, below the eyebrows or below the ear lobes,” CNN previously reported.
Why do male and female students have different dress codes? WTF does the school system care if boys have longer hair? Apart from safety issues like being in a workshop class, why does anyone in the school system think they have the right to control who can and can't have certain hair lengths?
Yo, is anyone else getting really sick of this overreach of power and authority? I'm not referring to the economic and political relations. Those aside, I'm talking about this crap where people are starting to get involved in personal matters of appearance, medicine, gender, and even straight bs crap like a high school band finishing a song. This is getting way out of hand. Our culture is rotting with power and control issues at the expense of individual liberties.
I’m talking about this crap where people are starting to get involved in personal matters of appearance
I'm sorry to inform you, it used to be worse. Women rape victims used to not come forward because one of the main things that would be shoved in their faces was "how they dressed" and "were they asking for it."
That bullshit has been a throughline in US culture for fucking decades. I'm in my forties and when I was in high school, girls had ridiculous dress codes that were clearly sexist and clearly icky as fuck. Why would male authority figures be so obsessed with young women not being "too revealing" unless they're the creepy fucks who are staring?
Not to mention all the rules about men's pants sagging in the 90's. A rule that seemed aimed at young black and latino men in particular.
Believe it or not, it's better than it was in the 90's. It's still bad, it's still bullshit, but it's not new.
I'm sorry to inform you, it used to be worse. Women rape victims used to not come forward because one of the main things that would be shoved in their faces was "how they dressed" and "were they asking for it."
It still happens.
And that's why it's the job of people like you and me to raise a hellish stink about it whenever it happens so that one day, maybe it will finally stop.
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Why do male and female students have different dress codes?
Sexism.
And yes I'm fucking up to here with this authoritarian bullshit not to mention the bigotry.
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This particular School District has pulled this stunt so many times that the State of Texas passed a damn law, called the CROWN Act, to make them stop! They're back it claiming that the CROWN Act doesn't regulate length or color.
The CROWN Act sailed through the Texas Legislature with strong bi-partisan support and Gov Abbott even held a formal signing ceremony for it. How god damned racist do you have to be that even those people think you've gone too far?
When the Texas legislature and Abbott both think you've gone too far right, you've catastrophically fucked up on an inhumane level.
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Well it is considered poor form to just put 'NO BLACKS' in the prospectus.
They had to get creative.
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.
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.
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I said this in another thread, but this may be unconstitutional based on Bostock v. Clayton County. That was about employment though. You can’t discriminate based on sex. In the case it’s about discriminating against a gay person because “being attracted to women” is allowed for men but not women. So a hairstyle should not be allowed for women and not men. They are discriminating based on sex.
I think you're right actually. Bostock established that if changing the person's gender makes something unacceptable become acceptable, it's sexual discrimination.
As long as the Court respects precedent, which sadly is no longer a given, the school district is clearly in the wrong.
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Children & students historically don't get the benefit of precedent or rights afforded to adults, unfortunately. Hope to see a different outcome here.
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Dress code standards for hair and appearance are pretty dumb... but even as they are written in this school district, I don't understand how this kid's hair violates it.
The code says the hair can't extend below the eyebrows or below the ear lobes...and this kid's hair is above his eyebrows and above his ear lobes. I'm looking at the student's front, side, and back photos that are attached to the linked news article. What is the problem?
The "problem" is hes black and the school wanted to punish him for that. But they dont want to just come out and say it just like they didnt want to show their faces back in the days of the klan.
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.”
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.
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So, no male Sihk students are allowed, unless there's a religious exemption.
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As far as I can tell, the "problem" is that the dresscode states that the student's hair can't extend below his eyebrows or ear lobes "at any time". So, hypothetically, if this student took his hair down out of the braids, it would be longer than the dresscode allowed.
This, of course, is fucking stupid reasoning. The school probably just doesn't like this hairstyle - because racism - and is choosing to use an overly literal reading of the rule to try to force the student to change it.
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Am I the only one seeing this kid’s picture and thinking he’s the least offensive teenager I’ve seen this week?
Poor kid. 2 weeks of his schooling disrupted over complete bs. Dress code is already mostly bs, but leave it to Texas to take it the nth degree and dictate hair length. Not even in Utah do they have such draconian rules on hair length.
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That's probably the only time I've seen the word "loc" outside of Don't Be A Menace.
Don't really think the school has a leg to stand on here. It's a neat and tidy haircut. It's not something I'd get done, but that's mostly because I'm a mid-40's balding white man.
Suspending someone for having a black haircut is asking for trouble. Even in Texas.
I just wanna say I think this hairstyle is beautiful!
Agreed! It looks really good. The fact he was suspended for this is an absolute disgrace by that district.
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Is it a new thing to call dreads a "loc hairstyle" or something? I've never heard anything but 'dreads' or 'dreadlocks'.
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The code states that “male students’ hair will not extend, at any time, below the eyebrows or below the ear lobes,” CNN previously reported.
I'm confused how does this not conform to those guidelines?
“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.”
Ah, I see now... still they can suck 87 dicks with a dress code like that. "You can't look how you want when not here either?". Fuck that.
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The code states that “male students’ hair will not extend, at any time, below the eyebrows or below the ear lobes,”
Does this mean you can't have hair on the back of your head too? /s
Schools having no fucking clue what to do and suspending kids aside, that they made him sit on a stool for 8 hours is some barbaric shit. Like when teachers wake kids up if they're taking a nap in study hall.
Education, knowledge, and learning are great. Fuck teachers, schools, and administrators. Also fuck these racist pieces of shit especially
training them for the racist workforce
The code states that “male students’ hair will not extend, at any time, below the eyebrows or below the ear lobes,” CNN previously reported.
Furthermore, the code demands that none of the students will be listening to those heathen Beatles.
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