districts with a traditional dress code are safer

Trying to wrap my head around the concept of “dangerous hair.”

If the student somehow doesn’t win, I’ll have even less faith in the justice system than I already do.

Oh, and this isn’t quite the point, but I’ve seen pictures of his hair from other angles. It’s cool as hell.

This school principal used "conformity" as an American principle, implying the kid was being anti American or foreign in some way. Black Americans and their hairstyles are just as American, if not more so than that of white Americans, many who don't have roots to this land as deep as that of some black Americans. This is another example of racist, white administrators, who think that only a white American is a true American.

This is utterly ridiculous and such a thinly veiled racism. It's disgusting that a school principal and members of the school board collectively want to punish this kid so badly for being black they'd go to court to do it.

If there's a go fund me or other fundraiser for court costs for this kid and his family, I'd gladly throw money at it.

Being an American requires respect of others, originally different religions, and now encompass race. Who still cares about hair style as long as it isn't whipping in someone else's face.

it's incredible there are still guys who act like a grade school dress code is some sort of sacred biblical text. just really makes your skin crawl. imagine believing in something like that. imagine taking time out of your day to punish someone over their hair and thinking you're a noble servant of the barber's hill tradition. what the fuck dude

oh and also the virulent racism

America was founded in a rebellion against tyranny. Conformity was for royalists, who undermined the revolution and some of whom later served as spies or fought with the British Empire.

These people wave flags and pretend they embody American ideals when they’ve never even understood those ideals, much less even made an effort to live up to them.

I hope he wins and sues the school but mainly the principal into the ether. Good for him and his family for supporting him

Sounds like the school needs to conform to the changes of society!

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.

I like that the two people who literally wrote the law the school is currently breaking were at the hearing to confirm that the law covers this

I pasted this the other day. For those who missed it, this is what Barbers Hill is about-

https://www.bhisd.net/district/about-bhisd

Explains a few things, doesn't it?

Seriously, what is offensive about his hair?

Barbers Hill High School

Well there's your problem right there. With a name like that, they're bound to be very particular about the hair of all of their students for whatever reason.

Same people in Texas make fun of North Koreas defined list of hairstyles probably lol

violates a district dress code that limits hair length for boys

I get the racism angle here, but isn't this an open and shut case of sexism?

Remember all those immigrants coming through New York being inspired by the statue of conformity.

If I was the judge for this, I'd get the same haircut as the kid out of pure spite.