After serving more than a month of in-school suspension over his dreadlocks, a Black student in Texas was told he will be removed from his high school and sent to a disciplinary alternative education program on Thursday. Darryl George, 18, is a junior at Barbers Hill High School in Mont Belvieu and has been suspended since Aug. 31. Principal Lance Murphy wrote that George has repeatedly violated the district's “previously communicated standards of student conduct."

After serving more than a month of in-school suspension over his dreadlocks, a Black student in Texas was told he will be removed from his high school and sent to a disciplinary alternative education program on Thursday.

Darryl George, 18, is a junior at Barbers Hill High School in Mont Belvieu and has been suspended since Aug. 31. He will be sent to EPIC, an alternative school program, from Oct. 12 through Nov. 29 for “failure to comply” with multiple campus and classroom regulations, the principal said in a Wednesday letter provided to The Associated Press by the family.

Principal Lance Murphy wrote that George has repeatedly violated the district’s “previously communicated standards of student conduct." The letter also says that George will be allowed to return to regular classroom instruction on Nov. 30 but will not be allowed to return to his high school’s campus until then unless he’s there to discuss his conduct with school administrators.

Barbers Hill Independent School District prohibits male students from having hair extending below the eyebrows, ear lobes or top of a T-shirt collar, according to the student handbook. Additionally, hair on all students must be clean, well-groomed, geometrical and not an unnatural color or variation. The school does not require uniforms.

George’s mother, Darresha George, and the family’s attorney deny the teenager’s hairstyle violates the dress code. The family last month filed a formal complaint with the Texas Education Agency and a federal civil rights lawsuit against the state’s governor and attorney general, alleging they failed to enforce a new law outlawing discrimination based on hairstyles.

The family alleges George’s suspension and subsequent discipline violate the state’s CROWN Act, which took effect Sept. 1. The law, an acronym for “Create a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair,” is intended to prohibit race-based hair discrimination and bars employers and schools from penalizing people because of hair texture or protective hairstyles including Afros, braids, dreadlocks, twists or Bantu knots.

A federal version passed in the U.S. House last year, but was not successful in the Senate.

The school district also filed a lawsuit in state district court asking a judge to clarify whether its dress code restrictions limiting student hair length for boys violates the CROWN Act. The lawsuit was filed in Chambers County, east of Houston.

George’s school previously clashed with two other Black male students over the dress code.

Barbers Hill officials told cousins De’Andre Arnold and Kaden Bradford they had to cut their dreadlocks in 2020. Their families sued the district in May 2020, and a federal judge later ruled the district’s hair policy was discriminatory. Their pending case helped spur Texas lawmakers to approve the state’s CROWN Act. Both students withdrew from the school, with Bradford returning after the judge’s ruling.

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  • CileTheSane
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    1 year ago

    Ah, the "appropriate one, gotcha. Because it’s not appropriate to call a black person black, because it’s not PC right?

    I use an appropriate word. More than 1 word can be appropriate for a given situation. “Why did you say ’ call a black person black,’ instead of ‘refer to a black person as black,’? Is ‘refer’ TOO PC FOR YOU?!?!?!?!?” is just as absurd as this nonsense you’re on about. I’m done with this nonsense you’re using to distract from your lack of coherent argument.

    Point out the “dramatics”

    These dramatics:

    it had a better outcome, no thanks to my brother, simple because of race

    Again, if your brother is that amazing he should get a law degree.

    and insure ass shit never said anybody else, let alone them should use MY brother

    (I think you mean “I’m sure as shit”? Which would still be grammatically incorrect.)

    Hiring a lawyer is literally proof of that.

    So if they both had someone “better at this shit” argue for them, what other difference can we find that might account for the different outcome?

    Because that is the only salient difference here.

    One that you’re going out of your way to prove

    Yes? The original argument, that I am arguing, is that this is a result of racism. Do you know how arguments work? If my core argument is “this is racist” then my supporting arguments are going to also point out how this is racist. I’m not going to veer off into talking about how one time, at work, my brother talked to his boss and got a raise, because it’s irrelevant to what I am arguing.

    “Signed: Sincerely yours, thanks for proving my point, racism doesn’t exist.”

    Quote where I said racism doesn’t exist, you’re proof that it does.

    Oh sorry, I guess I should have had you sign off with “Racism only ever exists against white people”:

    Happens all the time, except that doesn’t make the news, because they’re white, so even if they get suspended, or totally expelled, it’s not new worthy. Nobody cares if a white kid is punished, or for that fact if a white person is killed by a black cop.

    Signed, Sincerely, thank you for proving my point,

    -CileTheSane