In a paid ad that ran in January in the Houston Chronicle, Barbers Hill Superintendent Greg Poole wrote that districts with a traditional dress code are safer and have higher academic performance, and that "being an American requires conformity."
ANAHUAC, Texas — A trial began Thursday to determine whether a Texas school district can continue to punish a Black high school student for refusing to change his hairstyle that
Darryl George, an 18-year-old Black student at Barbers Hill High School east of Houston, has been repeatedly suspended for his dreadlocks. Lingering questions over whether the CROWN Act pertains to the district's hair-length policy were at center of Thursday’s trial.
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ANAHUAC, Texas (AP) A black high school student's monthslong punishment by his Texas school district for refusing to change his locs hairstyle does not violate a new state law that prohibits race-based hair discrimination, a.