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A legal case over a Black student's hair goes to court as school dress and grooming codes come under scrutiny.
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A legal case over a Black student's hair goes to court as school dress and grooming codes come under scrutiny.
A trial over the Barbers Hill school district’s dress code will test Texas’ new CROWN Act, which prohibits discrimination based on hairstyles.
The bench trial will determine if the Barbers Hill school district can continue its monthslong suspension of Darryl George.
A Texas judge ruled Thursday that the monthslong punishment of a Black high school student over his hairstyle somehow does not constitute race-based discrimination by his school.Darryl George, a junior at Barbers Hill High School, has spent most of his school days since August in either in-school suspension or in an off-site disciplinary program. The 18-year-old wears his hair in long locs twisted on top of his head. His school says the hairstyle violates the school district dress code, which st
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.