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A Houston-area judge ruled Thursday that Barbers Hill ISD's policy restricting hair length for boys, which it has used to continually punish 18-year-old Black student Darryl George, is not a violation of the CROWN Act, a new state law protecting students and employees at state-funded institutions from race-based hair discrimination.
A Texas judge ruled that Barbers Hill ISD did not violate the CROWN Act after punishing high school student Darryl George over his hair length.
In a test of Texas' new CROWN Act prohibiting discrimination based on hairstyles, a judge said the Barbers Hill school district can limit the length of male students' hair.
Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) is calling on Congress to pass federal legislation protecting Black hairstyles after a Texas judge ruled teachers did not violate legal protections when they punished a student for wearing dreadlocks. “This is a pathetic, wilful and anti-Black misinterpretation of the CROWN Act,” Pressley posted Thursday on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter.…
The CROWN Act is at the center of a trial involving Darryl George, a Black high school student, and a Texas school district over his hairstyle, which led to his suspension from school.