Conservatives don't want schools that teach how to think. They want schools that teach kids to obey.

The rules don't really matter, if anything they want the rules to be as stupid and arbitrary as possible, that way they get adult workers willing to take "because I said so" as rationale for fucking anything.

Like how in boot camp they focus on the most inconsequential details. They don't care how exact you can make a bed, theyre just teaching you how to follow orders

Barbers Hill High School

The irony is stunning.

“When you are asked to conform ... and give up something for the betterment of the whole, there is a psychological benefit,” Poole said. “We need more teaching (of) sacrifice.”

How does this dude not realize that also applies to his school district and their stupid outdated rules about hair length?

The classic idea that someone's hairstyle can be more disruptive than harassing a student and suspending them. This comes down to racism plain and simple.

Seems like Iran is the role model for many Americans. Land of the free is nothing but a sad joke. 🤥

Can we like... dissolve Texas as a state? They suck.

I cannot for the life of me understand such nonsense. Why do we care about a hairstyle? Im sure this is all just used as a racist cudgel but what even is the flimsy defense for it? Just teach the fucking kids math and history, ect. I'd like to fire the morons wasting everyone's time with this nonsense.

... he was told his hair fell below his eyebrows and ear lobes.

Unless they have the exact same standards for hair length for all students, regardless of gender, that's plainly discriminatory.

Of course, in reality, hairstyle rules are stupid. As long as it doesn't cause a disruption (think smelly, or formed into the shape of a helicopter), whatever you wanna do with your hair is fine.

To be fair they did investigate themselves and found they did nothing wrong...

I used to work at a company that practically refused to hire black people because their dress code precluded basically every common black hairstyle.

It pisses me off that dreads and braids are some sort of white-collar taboo.

“He has to sit on a stool for eight hours in a cubicle. That’s very uncomfortable. Every day he’d come home, he’d say his back hurts because he has to sit on a stool,”

What the fuck is this? What is the school trying to teach this kid? Certainly not to hate authority or resent the adults that are responsible for his high school success.

This is mental and physical abuse. Fuck this school. Fuck this school district. God I hate high school even to this day as a mom.

Policies like this this only exist to force others to conform to social norms and punish individuality. No reason why individual expression should be condemned. You really see things like this in all walks of life schools, work places etc. Society will actively punish you for diverting from the norm in if its completely harmless.

... he was told his hair fell below his eyebrows and ear lobes.

But... the picture from the article says that's how he wore his hair to school, and it is clearly not obstructing his eyebrows or earlobes. What gives? I feel it's a hard argument to say that this is not racial discrimination.

This may be unconstitutional based on Bostock v. Clayton County. AFAIK this is a public High School, and they cannot have different hair rules for male students as they do female. This would be a school accepting a condition (hair that fell below his eyebrows and ear lobs) if the student were female, but not male. Also this same thing happened in 2020 at the same school. The SCOTUS case was from 2020, will be interesting if this is brought up.

it's genuinely insane to think people still care about haircuts. haircuts! don't we have better things to focus on. the school officials should be put in therapy

The crown act needs to be federal

His hair looks awesome tho, man even in Socialist Republic of Canuckistan are we that bad.

Y’all are more than welcome up here in the north, lord knows these hateful people will start migrating when the global warming starts setting in.

Lots of fresh water and land up here : )

Clear cut violation of Freedom of Expression. This is an ACLU payday just waiting to happen.

Ok I’m a old white dude and this hairstyle is pretty badass, damn near art. What the fuck is wrong with people?