School officials say the student's dreadlocks fall below his eyebrows and ear lobes and violate the district’s dress code.

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.

    • be_excellent_to_each_other@kbin.social
      14·
      1 year ago

      Abbott signs into law CROWN Act banning race-based hair discrimination

      How’d they fool him into that? Does it have a line in it that bans topics that could make white kids uncomfortable or something?

      • affiliate@lemmy.world
        2·
        1 year ago

        maybe he wants something in his pocket that he can bring up to say “see! i’m not racist!”. or maybe he thought it was a losing battle? (it would probably be extremely easy for a court to rule that a dreadlocks ban is unconstitutional)

        according to this article, the law was introduced by a democrat and “sailed through both chambers of the Legislature with overwhelming support”. so that at least gives some support to the second hypothesis.