School claims no discrimination after Black student suspended for hairstyle
The identical week Texas outlawed racial discrimination primarily based on hairstyles, a Black highschool student was suspended as a result of college officers stated his dreadlocks violated the district costume code.
“I just want to say that I want my son to get the education he needs and not be discriminated against because of his hair,” Dareesha George informed FOX 26 Houston.
Her son, Darryl George, is a 17-year-old junior at Barbers Hill High School in Mont Belvieu outside Houston. He acquired an in-school suspension after he was informed his hair fell under his eyebrows and ear lobes, The Associated Press reported.
It is George’s first 12 months at the highschool, and his mother alleges issues bought off to a rocky begin from day one.
A more in-depth take a look at Darryl George’s hairdo with a photograph taken by his mother. (Darresha George by way of AP)
“Because they know his hair is long, every day he comes to school he will be in ISS because they know when it’s let down it’s below his eyelids and ear lobes,” George stated.
The incident remembers debates over hair discrimination in faculties and the office and is already testing the state’s newly enacted CROWN Act, which took impact Sept. 1.
The regulation, an acronym for “Create a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair,” is meant to ban race-based hair discrimination and bars employers and faculties from penalizing folks due to hair texture or protecting hairstyles together with Afros, braids, dreadlocks, twists or Bantu knots. Texas is one in every of 24 states that has enacted a model of the CROWN Act.
A federal model of the CROWN Act handed within the House of Representatives final 12 months, however was not profitable within the Senate.
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“The Barbers Hill ISD costume code just isn’t in battle with the CROWN Act,” a district assertion to FOX 26 stated.
George served the suspension final week. His mom stated he plans to return to the Houston-area college Monday, carrying his dreadlocks in a ponytail, even when he’s required to attend an alternate college because of this.
The identical week a state regulation went into impact prohibiting discrimination on the premise of hair, Darryl George was suspended as a result of his locs didn’t adjust to the district’s costume code. (Darresha George by way of AP)
Darryl George, 17, a junior at Barbers Hill High School in Mont Belvieu, Texas, sits for a photograph exhibiting his locs, on the household’s dwelling, Sept. 10, 2023. (Darresha George by way of AP)
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In George’s household, all the lads have dreadlocks, going again generations. To them, the hairstyle has cultural and spiritual significance, his mom stated.
“Our hair is where our strength is, that’s our roots,” Darresha George informed the AP. “He has his ancestors locked into his hair, and he knows that.”
The Associated Press contributed to this report.