A Texas school's punishment of a Black student who wears his hair in locs is going to trial

it's a code word for racism

Countries with gun control laws are safer.
Schools have no business whatsoever in their students' hair.

Wouldn't it include sexism as well. It states for boys...

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The law bans discrimination against hairstyles that are "commonly or historically associated with race". The school district is in clear violation of that law.

The actual law is supposed to protect minorities. The school district is just in fantasy racist land.

imagine taking time out of your day to punish someone over their hair and thinking you’re a noble servant of the barber’s hill tradition. what the fuck dude

When you think "being an American requires conformity" and consider yourself the arbiter of that conformity, it makes pretty good sense. Especially if you are a racist old shitbag.

My daughter got in trouble in her public middle school for wearing a spiked collar. Now she's in online school and can wear whatever the fuck she wants. She wants to wear spiked collars. Fuck school dress codes.

When has that EVER been required in America? Respect of others has been optional AT BEST.

These people wave flags and pretend they embody American ideals when they’ve never even understood those ideals, much less even made an effort to live up to them.

Remember, these are the same people who were amazed to find that RATM was not only political, but held positions in opposition to theirs. They assume all worthy ideals conform to their worldview, and consistently fail to look any deeper until forced to do so.

Nobody knows

Yep. The full quote was referring to Annapolis, etc, and talking about how they know that "being American requires conformity with the benefit of unity."

I like your take because even though that keeps being taken out of context, it's still deserves just as much criticism. High school isn't boot camp.

Yup, Texas schools are authoritarian hell holes.

It's not about the hair length. It's mostly because he's black, but it's also about asserting power. .

He's black.

A bunch of Take me to McDonald's cuts in that list.

Because it's a part of dress code, it's basically tradition to separate by gender on the topic. Just like how women are required by law to cover their nipples in the USA.

Sadly, SCOTUS has basically decided that schools can do pretty much whatever they want with school uniforms and dress codes. It doesn't serve any valid purpose, but proponents will say BS like " it distracts from the educational experience ".

In the this case the dress code is a child's argument. The hair is "too long" and the statute only protects cultural hair styles without using the word "length" anywhere. It's exactly the same level as your buddy arguing you can deal illegal drugs if you get a tax stamp.

Tell me you haven't paid attention to the details of the case without telling me you haven't paid attention to the details of the case.

Hair discrimination is a form of racism, mostly used against black people.

https://www.naacpldf.org/natural-hair-discrimination/

Its racist but even if it wasnt just let people have their fucking hair.

They changed the dress code partway through a school year in a way that specifically targeted both him and another black student.

Are the girls held to the same standards?

Black hair often tends to be more coarse, dry, and curly than others' hair. A lot of black hairstyles are meant not only as source of self expression, but also to promote moisture retention, scalp health, and cleanliness since frequent washing can easily strip oil from the hair and damage it. It also helps protect the long but brittle hair against breakage.

Unfortunately, there's a long history of black hair styles being seen as "messy" and "unprofessional" in the US, owing to our colonial past. Many people don't really understand black hair care and believe the same rules apply to all kinds of hair, requiring or at least implying that hair should be relaxed/straight in a professional setting and anything else looks "nappy", unkempt, or "ghetto".

This is the feeling we get when seeing the rule about length when hair is "let down", the idea that, should George not wear this particular style, his hair would hang down to his shoulders. That's just not how that kind of hair works, so why is that kind of measurement being applied? "Length" is not deterministic for that kind of hair (ever seen someone before and after they pick their hair?) so the rule seems rather arbitrary. Is this rule applied equally to students with looser curly hair that naturally sits above their hairline when, if straight, it would drop over their eyes? How about people who wear a fro that can be pulled down to their shoulders? His hair is not to his shirt collar or over his ears, nor could it easily become so during the school day, so what exactly is the problem with it? It feels like this rule has been arbitrarily enforced in this case not because of the length of his hair, but because of the particular style of it. Intentional or not, it smacks of some of those old (but still prevalent) conceptions about certain traditionally black hairstyles.