Soon after starting his junior year last month at Barbers Hill High School in Mont Belvieu, Texas, Darryl George was separated from his classmates because of the way he wears his hair, his mother and a lawyer said.
Each morning, he is asked by officials at the school, about 30 miles east of Houston, whether he has cut his hair yet, she said.
“He is actually getting singled out,” said Ms. George.
“They are personally stopping him, ‘Did he cut his hair?’ Asking him at the door.”Darryl has locs, or long ropelike strands of hair, that he pins on his head in a barrel roll, a protective style that reflects Black culture, Ms. George said.
On Aug. 31, about two weeks after school started, school officials told her that his hair length, even though pinned, violated the dress code.
Persons:
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Mont Belvieu , Texas, Houston