Black Texas High School Student Suspended For Loc Hairstyle

17-Year-Old Black Texas High School Student Suspended For Loc Hairstyle

A Black Texas high school student has been suspended for more than a week because of the way he styles his locs, which violated the district’s dress code, his mother and lawyer said.

According to CNN, Darryl George, a junior at Barbers Hill High School in Mont Belvieu, was hit with multiple disciplinary action notes and placed on in-school suspension for wearing his locs hairstyle in a ponytail.

His mother said 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.’

 

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School officials told Daryl his hairstyle violated the school district’s dress and grooming code which states, “Male students’ hair will not extend, at any time, below the eyebrows or below the ear lobes.”

It also said, “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.”

On September 8, George got an additional five days of ISS because his was “below his eyebrows when let down,” his mother said. He’s looking at the possibility being placed in a Disciplinary Alternative Education Program, if he doesn’t cut his hair by the end of this week, she continued.

What’s interesting about this is that his mother told school officials she believed their policies were in violation of the CROWN Act, and she said officials told her the law does not apply to limitations on hair length.