The family of Darryl George, a Black student suspended over his locs, argues in a lawsuit that Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) hasn’t enforced the Crown Act.
from classes and football at Barbers Hill High School for more than three weeks, according to a complaint filed Saturday in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas. While serving an in-school suspension, the 17-year-old junior has been kept from his peers, forced to sit on a stool in a cubicle and made to complete schoolwork alone.
Last week, the district asked a court to weigh in on whether its dress code violates the Crown Act, CNN“Although we believe the new law does not govern hair length, we are asking the judicial system of Texas to interpret,” Barbers Hill Superintendent Greg Poole said in a statement shared with the outlet.
This is not the first time the district has been sued over allegations that its policy is discriminatory against Black students. Three years before the Crown Act passed, the schoolDe’Andre Arnold and Kaden Bradford for keeping their hair in dreadlocks. Like George, both students were placed on in-school suspension and risked being forced into an alternative school unless they cut their hair.
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