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Texas high school sends Black student back to in-school suspension over his locs hairstyle

No they're not.

arbitrary:
based on random choice or personal whim, rather than any reason or system.
The fact that no rules or consequences are universal, outside science and math, etc, means that they are, or started out, as arbitrary.
 
Other images from when he was suspended indicate otherwise. His hair was longer than the school allowed

Why does the scool care how long students hair is?

I really don't get it.
and he was putting it up in weird man buns.
Weird is in the eye of the beholder.
 
The school is discriminating, and it needs to cost the principal and the superintendent their jobs. The right wing has always had a problem with this type of behavior. Now it needs to start costing them large amounts of money.
After George spent weeks on in-school suspension, his family received a letter from the school principal referring him to the disciplinary program for the dress code violations and other transgressions: violating the tardy policy, disrupting the in-school suspension classroom and not complying with school directives.
Barbers Hill Superintendent Greg Poole said Friday in an email to the AP that officials cannot disclose the infractions that led to George’s current placement, but it was not because of his hair.

George’s mother, Darresha George, said he once used a profanity to express frustration with the in-school suspension. The family said George also has had two tardy violations. But they see the refusal to cut his hair as the root of the issue.



I know that in cases we have dealt with, profanity to express frustration often means that the student is calling the teacher a racist.
 
He’s going to be required to follow dress codes his whole life assuming he works. His approval isn’t required.
Maybe, maybe not.

But it doesn't answer my question. Why does the school care about the length of student hair, I really don't get it.
 
Dress codes in public schools are generally implemented to minimize distractions.
What would be distracting about a guy with long hair?

There were guys with long hair in my school, not distracting at all. I see men with long hair all the time. My contractor has a pony tail. It doesn't distract me a bit.

I really don't get it.

The fact that there is no obvious answer to why the school cares if boys have long hair means it is probably a stupid rule and ought to be repealed.
 
I had to wear my hair style a specific way for 20 years to satisfy the Navy Department which was often controlled by democrats.

Where the **** where you when I didn't feel like sitting in the ship's barber chair?

More Jack hack nonsense.

Probably had to wear the same clothes too, huh?

Conformity is probably important for a military unit.
 
Dress codes in public schools are generally implemented to minimize distractions and for hygienic reasons.
Really. What dress codes are in place for hygienic reasons? Dress codes are ridiculous and should only stop students from wearing clothes advertising products like guns, alcohol, drugs and hate speech..
 
Really. What dress codes are in place for hygienic reasons? Dress codes are ridiculous and should only stop students from wearing clothes advertising products like guns, alcohol, drugs and hate speech..
Short hair minimizes transmission of lice.
 
He’s going to be required to follow dress codes his whole life assuming he works. His approval isn’t required.
Let’s say he becomes a day trader in the stock market once he graduates. What dress requirement will he have to follow in such a profession?
 
I had to wear my hair style a specific way for 20 years to satisfy the Navy Department which was often controlled by democrats.

Where the **** where you when I didn't feel like sitting in the ship's barber chair?

More Jack hack nonsense.
You comparing being in the military with a student in a public school? Very telling.
 
Dress codes in public schools are generally implemented to minimize distractions and for hygienic reasons.

There's nothing distracting or unhygienic about this kid's hairstyle.
 
You comparing being in the military with a student in a public school? Very telling.

If you hold one government standard to another?

States hold their own Guards to a standard.

NYC has dress standards in certain schools and not one liberal on here has cried foul.

Very telling of you.
 
The school is discriminating, and it needs to cost the principal and the superintendent their jobs. The right wing has always had a problem with this type of behavior. Now it needs to start costing them large amounts of money.
How are they discriminating?
 
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