A Black Texas high school student who was suspended because his loc hairstyle violated the district’s dress code was suspended again upon his return to school Monday, an attorney for the family told CNN.
Darryl George has been suspended for more than two weeks because his loc hairstyle violates the Barbers Hill Independent School District dress and grooming code, according to his family.
The code states that “male students’ hair will not extend, at any time, below the eyebrows or below the ear lobes,” CNN previously reported.
Dress codes are like THE tool schools use to punish students that they dont like. eg. minorities, girls, anyone that doesnt conform to gender norms i.e trans kids etc. They cant get away with coming out and saying “whites only” so they selectively enforce the rules to target anyone they want.
To be fair, this rule was probably created to specifically oppress hippies. The “whites only” unspoken rule was probably enforced by the community at large.
The current administration has simply co-opted the anti hippy rule for racism!
Literally anyone that doesnt fit a particular mold is a target. The list of people that can be targets is a lot longer than the list that “cant”
While you’re not wrong, dress codes are also used to reduce bullying (rich and poor kids tend to look more similar) and truancy (going into arcades during the day in school clothes is noticeable).
[Reduce. I didn’t say stop.]
One of the schools I went to had recently (as of when I was there) relaxed its code so that you only had to wear a plain white shirt (with the school logo, which you could buy separately) and blue pants (jeans counted). I say this only to say: not all dress codes are overly oppressive and evil. And it’s so much easier never having to think about what to wear. The Steve Jobs of school wear.
But yeah, how it’s being used here is complete BS.