A judge ordered Wednesday that a trial be held next month to determine whether a Black high school student in Texas can continue being punished by his district for refusing to change a hairstyle he and his family say is protected by a new state law.
Darryl George, 18, has not been in his regular classroom in Barbers Hill High School in Mont Belvieu since Aug. 31. Instead, he has either been serving in-school suspension or spending time in an off-site disciplinary program.
His Houston-area school district, Barbers Hill, has said George’s long hair, which he wears in neatly tied and twisted locs on top of his head, violates a district dress code that limits hair length for boys. The district has said other students with locs comply with the length policy.
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In the ad, Poole defended his district’s policy and wrote that districts with a traditional dress code are safer and had higher academic performance and that “being an American requires conformity.”
For context, Poole got his conformity idea from looking at the military academies. Barber’s Hill is not a military prep school and the Military does not believe being an American requires conformity. They believe target identification and units working together at low levels requires conformity. (So they know exactly what they’re going to do and can just execute the mission without input from higher)
This guy is an authoritarian hiding behind things he only pretends to know about.
Yep. The full quote was referring to Annapolis, etc, and talking about how they know that “being American requires conformity with the benefit of unity.”
I like your take because even though that keeps being taken out of context, it’s still deserves just as much criticism. High school isn’t boot camp.