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This particular School District has pulled this stunt so many times that the State of Texas passed a damn law, called the CROWN Act, to make them stop! They're back it claiming that the CROWN Act doesn't regulate length or color.
The CROWN Act sailed through the Texas Legislature with strong bi-partisan support and Gov Abbott even held a formal signing ceremony for it. How god damned racist do you have to be that even those people think you've gone too far?
When the Texas legislature and Abbott both think you've gone too far right, you've catastrophically fucked up on an inhumane level.
I'm amazed at the lengths some people will go to for such trivial things. I'm not surprised at all that a school had an old rule, or that they've been called out on it. But to try to bypass laws to enforce such a, let's be real, silly rule of no real consequence, is just amazing.
I just can't put myself in the head of some principal wo believes dress codes are the most important thing in the world. Just fucking back down.
The principal doesn't give a shit about the dress code beyond how it can provide a way to hurt black students. In that context it becomes obvious that they're going to extreme lengths because they consider inflicting harm to be important.
At what point do they start firing the people in charge of the school district?
Only if they've got blue tinges to their politics, otherwise, nah, yer good. Do what you like.
If it's anything like my state, the board members make that decision and they are elected by the community. So that point is probably far, far away.
At this point I think that they're doing this knowing it'll result in a lawsuit.
I wonder if they're just fanning the flames to make it look like the government is le 1984 for not letting them have racist policy in their schools.