(Reuters) - A Texas judge ruled on Thursday that a Houston-area school district did not violate a newly enacted state law when it punished a Black student for refusing to change his hairstyle, local media reported. The case involved Darryl George, .
In September the district argued that George's dreadlocks violated the dress and grooming code because it fell past a t-shirt collar the eyebrows and the ear lobes.
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The case involved Darryl George, who wears his dreadlocks braided on top of his head, and Barbers Hill Independent School District, which had claimed the 18-year-old s hairstyle violated its dress. -February 22, 2024 at 05:45 pm EST
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(CNN) — A Texas judge ordered a trial to begin next month in the case of Darryl George, the Houston-area teen who has been suspended from his school for months over the length of his locs hairstyle.
At a hearing Wednesday, Chambers County Judge Chap Cain set a trial date for February 22.
George remains on in-school suspension, according to Candice Matthews, a family