It's Texas, so my money is on a few good ol' boys who 1.) don't appreciate the kid's skin color, 2.) don't love that he's nationally embarrassed them for the fools they are, and 3.) are dense enough to believe they can still "win" this thing.

Yes. Schools exist to make your kids into little workers for their kids.

Because everyone should look like everyone else. Like clones. After all working in the factories needs co-ordination.

Its generally conservative viewpoints of fitting people into "the norm". Conservatism/traditionalism doesnt stop in the U.S, japan has schools for example that require students dye their hair black and conform to a very atrict uniform. Although that requirement was dropped very recently in tokyo(like 2021), it likely still exist in some regions.

Is the admin white? Well there ya go.

Are they just power mad control freaks?

Yes. Schools have cultures just like anywhere else. Once the administration has a sufficient number of power-hungry losers, this is the end result.

They can never do anything wrong. It is always someone else's fault for everything. And all of them reinforce this mentality in each other.

It's disgusting.

Good question. I think we all know the answer to why they're making an example out of this kid.

This is the only thing that matters. Most of the comments are just snippy teens saying “you can’t tell me what to do”

It's always confused me why schools think suspension would be an effective punishment when the kid often doesn't want to be in class anyway (not in the case of this kid obviously) and definitely won't be learning anything.

I've never heard the term "in-school suspension". It sounds like what I remember as "detention", but done during what would otherwise be the school day, yeah? On top of this being some blatant racism, it seems like a really poor use of school resources.

It is even worse than that. He wears his hair in a way that the it does not go below his eyebrows and ear lobes. But the school is mad that it could . It makes my blood boil.

I don't think you understand how concentration camps worked if you use that sentence.

How can anyone blatantly break a law and not get charged?

The letter of the law means nothing if the people in charge of enforcement don't agree with it.

Two words; flawed democracy

Texas even has a law forbidding this. I lived in Houston for a few years, and it's actually astonishing the General Assembly passed a law to forbid discrimination of hair style.

Just to give you a general idea of how fucked up these school officials are. They're worse than the worst of Texas.