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Looking at other articles it looks like that missed classroom time was for continued suspensions over his hairstyle.
This effort has apparently been backed by the district superintendent.
Greg Poole, who has been district superintendent since 2006, said the policy is legal and teaches students to conform as a sacrifice benefitting everyone.“When you are asked to conform ... and give up something for the betterment of the whole, there is a psychological benefit,” Poole said. “We need more teaching (of) sacrifice.”Just for bonus points the school district's policy is not only racist but sexist. This policy only applies to males.
Barbers Hill Independent School District prohibits male students from having hair extending below the eyebrows, ear lobes or top of a t-shirt collar, according to the student handbook. Additionally, hair on all students must be clean, well-groomed, geometrical and not an unnatural color or variation. The school does not require uniforms.I have no idea what "geometrical" hair would be.
We want you all to be good little soldiers so when you graduate, you can go off and be good little soldiers.
I can’t believe I had to scroll this far to find this quote - anyone else horrified that a school superintendent can say this and think it’s ok? Military school, sure, it serves a purpose that may save your life, but this doesn’t appear to be a military school, and conformity is not an educational value
Put that together with this kid missing 80% of the year so far over hair and there’s something seriously wrong with that school.
I mean, it’s a weird hill for the kid to die on, and I don’t see how it’s in his interest to do this, but it’s a serious failing of the school to impact his education like this
How in the fuck does this guy's hair affect anybody else in literally any way? Absurd
The superintendent with his comment has made it clear it has nothing to do with hair, and everything to do with exerting control and punishment when that control is rejected.
I know. It was kind of a rhetorical question.
Holy heck?! Who is this psychopath?! "You must conform!" in this case basically = "You must assimilate!". This is why some version of CRT, at least an overview of the fundamentals, SHOULD be taught in highshool so students can recognise these sorts of policies for what they often are. But the system is hardly going to educate the subjects of its oppression is it, or they might actually recognize and resist policies and practices that are rooted in racism and discrimination. Can't have that!