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In a paid ad that ran in January in the Houston Chronicle, Barbers Hill Superintendent Greg Poole wrote that districts with a traditional dress code are safer and have higher academic performance, and that "being an American requires conformity."
ANAHUAC, Texas — A trial began Thursday to determine whether a Texas school district can continue to punish a Black high school student for refusing to change his hairstyle that
Darryl George, an 18-year-old Black student at Barbers Hill High School east of Houston, has been repeatedly suspended for his dreadlocks. Lingering questions over whether the CROWN Act pertains to the district's hair-length policy were at center of Thursday’s trial.
ANAHUAC, Texas (AP) — A black high school student's monthslong punishment by his Texas school district for refusing to change his locs hairstyle does not violate a new state law that prohibits race-based hair discrimination, a...
The school district argued Darryl George's long hair, which he wears in tied and twisted dreadlocks on top of his head, violates its dress code policy because of its length