By Micheal Chukwuebuka, Reporting
A high school in Texas sent a Black student back on suspension on Tuesday Dec. 5th, for refusing to change his hairstyle, thereby renewing a standoff over a dress code system.
According to a disciplinary notice issued by Barbers Hill High School in Mont Belvieu, the student, 18-year-old Darryl George, was suspended for additional 13 days because his hair is out of compliance when let down.
Stonix News learnt that George had earlier spent a month at an off-site disciplinary program.
“We are just trying to take it day by day. That’s all we can do.
“We do not see the light at the end of the tunnel. But we are not giving up,” his mother, Darresha George told newsmen.
Recall that the dress code policy at Barbers Hill Independent School District attracted headlines in 2020 when a Black student was forbidden to return to school or attend his graduation ceremony unless he cut his dreadlocks.
Our source, NBC, confirmed that George was sent to the disciplinary program for violating the dress code and the tardy policy, disrupting the in-school suspension classroom and not complying with school directives.
As he completed his punishment there, George was told he would go back to in-person suspension unless he trimmed his hair, district spokesperson David Bloom said.
In response to these suspensions, George’s family has filed a formal complaint with the Texas Education Agency and a federal civil rights lawsuit against the state’s governor and attorney general along with the school district.
George’s family also alleges that the authorities failed to enforce the new law outlawing discrimination based on hairstyles.
“It’s frustrating because I’m getting punished for something everyone else is doing, growing hair, having hair,” George said.
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