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‘I want them to change their policies’: Family of Barbers Hill ISD student suspended over his natural hair speaks out

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The family says he was suspended the same week the Texas CROWN Act went into effect.

– The CROWN Act, a law prohibiting race-based hair discrimination, officially went into effect on Sept. 1 in Texas.

But she says her son, Darryl George, a junior at Barbers Hill High School in Mont Belvieu, has been in in-school suspension since Aug. 31st, which is the same week Texas outlawed racial discrimination based on hairstyles.“I had a meeting with the principal and the assistant principal, and they said it’s because the CROWN Act doesn’t cover the length of his hair,” said Darresha George.

The policy states that male students’ hair cannot extend below their eyebrows or ear lobes, not even if the hair is gathered or pulled back.

 

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