The Supreme Court hasn't ruled if a student's hairstyle is protected speech under the 1st Amendment. This also raises a clear racial discrimination claim. I hope it gets to the Supreme Court, where one Justice wears a dreadlock-adjacent hairstyle, and other Justices claim to be free speech absolutists.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t know what the OP was referring to either until this popped up on my news feed. Really Texas?

A Black student’s family sues Texas officials over his suspension for his hairstyle
https://apnews.com/article/e79ede512923b672a275abf054e2407b

I would think this code disproportionately affects non-black students. Generally speaking, black hair is very curly and grows up and out, while people with straight hair have it grow down. You're more likely to have hair grow past eyebrows and ears with straight hair vs very curly hair.

So you also read the part about how if someone’s hair COULD be past their eyebrows and ears — it breaks the rule, presumably only if you’re male. So actually this might disproportionately impact POC — from Native Americans, to boys wearing turbans with uncut hair, to anyone with braids or locs in most styles


A related issue is who decides this — and how do they make these judgements. Is someone using their own standards? Forcing students to reveal their hair or take out their braids to be measured? Is there some academic reason why a rule like this would be gender specific? Is there some correlation with hair length and academic progress?

I hope this young man is able to win his case, get the rules changed throughout this school system and beyond, and end up with a settlement that will pay for private school and college.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is dumb and not a real problem. Why don’t State legislators fix real problems and not try to regulate appearance?

Because this is the point. We are talking about this and distracted from the grift and corruption of our elected officials. And the MAGA’s get some red meat in the process. It’s a twofer!

That’s part of the point. The other part of the point is that Black kids will get punished and denied education.

The fact that angry and entitled White magas get to play their imaginary race card and no one is talking about how Leonard Leo and his donors bought themselves a court or that the entirety of the GOP knew about the plan to overthrow the government is just the cherry on a white supremacy sundae.

Anonymous wrote:This is dumb and not a real problem. Why don’t State legislators fix real problems and not try to regulate appearance?

Because this is the point. We are talking about this and distracted from the grift and corruption of our elected officials. And the MAGA’s get some red meat in the process. It’s a twofer!

This is dumb and not a real problem. Why don’t State legislators fix real problems and not try to regulate appearance?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t know what the OP was referring to either until this popped up on my news feed. Really Texas?

A Black student’s family sues Texas officials over his suspension for his hairstyle
https://apnews.com/article/e79ede512923b672a275abf054e2407b

I would think this code disproportionately affects non-black students. Generally speaking, black hair is very curly and grows up and out, while people with straight hair have it grow down. You're more likely to have hair grow past eyebrows and ears with straight hair vs very curly hair.

This is not how human beings decide their hairstyles ffs. Your hair is not disproportionately long to the US population because it's straight. God the stupid.

+1

This is a policy to punish Black students.

Here’s the kid’s hair:


So disruptive.

+1. When i first read about the case i thought he had dreadlocks to his knees or something like that. This hairstyle is great, akin to having very short hair. The kid has been suspended from school for weeks now notwithstanding a new law in texas that ban discrimination based on ethnic hair style.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with this hairstyle - it is beautiful. Authoritarianism doesn't belong in schools.

Schools should not be policing hair styles at all. Einstein had long hair. Da Vinci had long hair. Jesus Christ had long hair.

Do you know who had short hair? Hitler.

Hair styles change and evolve with each generation. Different ethnicities have different kinds of hair. Every culture has its own preferences.

The only reason schools ever choose to enforce some arbitrary hair rule is because a dominant social group wants to exert authoritarian rule over a minority group of some kind. It is nothing but a power play. It should be resisted.

Plus, being embarrassed by your high school hair style is part of the American experience. Should we really save people from themselves? Twenty years from now, an entire generation of American men are going to look back at pictures of their broccoli hair cuts. And they will shudder in shame and embarrassment. Who are we to deny them that experience?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t know what the OP was referring to either until this popped up on my news feed. Really Texas?

A Black student’s family sues Texas officials over his suspension for his hairstyle
https://apnews.com/article/e79ede512923b672a275abf054e2407b

I would think this code disproportionately affects non-black students. Generally speaking, black hair is very curly and grows up and out, while people with straight hair have it grow down. You're more likely to have hair grow past eyebrows and ears with straight hair vs very curly hair.

This is not how human beings decide their hairstyles ffs. Your hair is not disproportionately long to the US population because it's straight. God the stupid.

+1

This is a policy to punish Black students.

Here’s the kid’s hair:


So disruptive.

Growing up, my hair was long and wild, even when it had just been brushed. My brother had a regular Afro. My white mother told me in high school that I could go to Europe with her only if I promised to keep my hair “tied up”. Was she “punishing” me?

Sounds like she was controlling you, for sure. Yikes.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t know what the OP was referring to either until this popped up on my news feed. Really Texas?

A Black student’s family sues Texas officials over his suspension for his hairstyle
https://apnews.com/article/e79ede512923b672a275abf054e2407b

I would think this code disproportionately affects non-black students. Generally speaking, black hair is very curly and grows up and out, while people with straight hair have it grow down. You're more likely to have hair grow past eyebrows and ears with straight hair vs very curly hair.

This is not how human beings decide their hairstyles ffs. Your hair is not disproportionately long to the US population because it's straight. God the stupid.

+1

This is a policy to punish Black students.

Here’s the kid’s hair:


So disruptive.

+1. When i first read about the case i thought he had dreadlocks to his knees or something like that. This hairstyle is great, akin to having very short hair. The kid has been suspended from school for weeks now notwithstanding a new law in texas that ban discrimination based on ethnic hair style.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with this hairstyle - it is beautiful. Authoritarianism doesn't belong in schools.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t know what the OP was referring to either until this popped up on my news feed. Really Texas?

A Black student’s family sues Texas officials over his suspension for his hairstyle
https://apnews.com/article/e79ede512923b672a275abf054e2407b

I would think this code disproportionately affects non-black students. Generally speaking, black hair is very curly and grows up and out, while people with straight hair have it grow down. You're more likely to have hair grow past eyebrows and ears with straight hair vs very curly hair.

This is not how human beings decide their hairstyles ffs. Your hair is not disproportionately long to the US population because it's straight. God the stupid.

+1

This is a policy to punish Black students.

Here’s the kid’s hair:


So disruptive.

Growing up, my hair was long and wild, even when it had just been brushed. My brother had a regular Afro. My white mother told me in high school that I could go to Europe with her only if I promised to keep my hair “tied up”. Was she “punishing” me?

Depends. What race are you? This is how we decide these things.

Bingo!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t know what the OP was referring to either until this popped up on my news feed. Really Texas?

A Black student’s family sues Texas officials over his suspension for his hairstyle
https://apnews.com/article/e79ede512923b672a275abf054e2407b

I would think this code disproportionately affects non-black students. Generally speaking, black hair is very curly and grows up and out, while people with straight hair have it grow down. You're more likely to have hair grow past eyebrows and ears with straight hair vs very curly hair.

This is not how human beings decide their hairstyles ffs. Your hair is not disproportionately long to the US population because it's straight. God the stupid.

+1

This is a policy to punish Black students.

Here’s the kid’s hair:


So disruptive.

Growing up, my hair was long and wild, even when it had just been brushed. My brother had a regular Afro. My white mother told me in high school that I could go to Europe with her only if I promised to keep my hair “tied up”. Was she “punishing” me?

Depends. What race are you? This is how we decide these things.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t know what the OP was referring to either until this popped up on my news feed. Really Texas?

A Black student’s family sues Texas officials over his suspension for his hairstyle
https://apnews.com/article/e79ede512923b672a275abf054e2407b

I would think this code disproportionately affects non-black students. Generally speaking, black hair is very curly and grows up and out, while people with straight hair have it grow down. You're more likely to have hair grow past eyebrows and ears with straight hair vs very curly hair.

This is not how human beings decide their hairstyles ffs. Your hair is not disproportionately long to the US population because it's straight. God the stupid.

+1

This is a policy to punish Black students.

Here’s the kid’s hair:


So disruptive.

Growing up, my hair was long and wild, even when it had just been brushed. My brother had a regular Afro. My white mother told me in high school that I could go to Europe with her only if I promised to keep my hair “tied up”. Was she “punishing” me?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t know what the OP was referring to either until this popped up on my news feed. Really Texas?

A Black student’s family sues Texas officials over his suspension for his hairstyle
https://apnews.com/article/e79ede512923b672a275abf054e2407b

I would think this code disproportionately affects non-black students. Generally speaking, black hair is very curly and grows up and out, while people with straight hair have it grow down. You're more likely to have hair grow past eyebrows and ears with straight hair vs very curly hair.

This is not how human beings decide their hairstyles ffs. Your hair is not disproportionately long to the US population because it's straight. God the stupid.

I have no idea what you're saying. I'm looking at the policy and the claim that it disproportionately affects black students. It seems almost impossible that is true due to growth patterns.

The student depicted has the same hairstyle as George Washington, long and kept tucked back. I don't think this is a uniquely black hairstyle; man ponytails have been popular in America among white people since the founding of our nation.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t know what the OP was referring to either until this popped up on my news feed. Really Texas?

A Black student’s family sues Texas officials over his suspension for his hairstyle
https://apnews.com/article/e79ede512923b672a275abf054e2407b

I would think this code disproportionately affects non-black students. Generally speaking, black hair is very curly and grows up and out, while people with straight hair have it grow down. You're more likely to have hair grow past eyebrows and ears with straight hair vs very curly hair.

This is not how human beings decide their hairstyles ffs. Your hair is not disproportionately long to the US population because it's straight. God the stupid.

+1

This is a policy to punish Black students.

Here’s the kid’s hair:


So disruptive.

+1. When i first read about the case i thought he had dreadlocks to his knees or something like that. This hairstyle is great, akin to having very short hair. The kid has been suspended from school for weeks now notwithstanding a new law in texas that ban discrimination based on ethnic hair style.

His hair does not appear to be below his eyebrow or ears so it's not clear why this is an issue.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t know what the OP was referring to either until this popped up on my news feed. Really Texas?

A Black student’s family sues Texas officials over his suspension for his hairstyle
https://apnews.com/article/e79ede512923b672a275abf054e2407b

I would think this code disproportionately affects non-black students. Generally speaking, black hair is very curly and grows up and out, while people with straight hair have it grow down. You're more likely to have hair grow past eyebrows and ears with straight hair vs very curly hair.

This is not how human beings decide their hairstyles ffs. Your hair is not disproportionately long to the US population because it's straight. God the stupid.

+1

This is a policy to punish Black students.

Here’s the kid’s hair:


So disruptive.

+1. When i first read about the case i thought he had dreadlocks to his knees or something like that. This hairstyle is great, akin to having very short hair. The kid has been suspended from school for weeks now notwithstanding a new law in texas that ban discrimination based on ethnic hair style.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is this going to be a new "cause du jour?"
Why is this in politics and not in the schools forum?

If you don’t know why, then you aren’t intelligent enough to be productive contributor and beneficiary of this sub forum. Just a thought.

I hate when people come on here and say things like this. This is DC Urban Moms. We mostly live in the DMV.