High school senior DeAndre Arnold said he's fighting the district's policy because he's 'willing to take a stand.'
that he wears his locs proudly as a nod to his Trinidadian heritage, is not in compliance with the school’s dress code on hair length.
The teen, who said he has been growing his hair in locs since he was in the seventh grade, was apparently recently placed on in-school suspension due to his hair, the local news station reported. Arnold and his mother, Sandy Arnold, argued that he has remained in compliance with the dress code, which calls for male students’ hair to remain off the shoulders and above the earlobes.
The student told KPRC that he has worn his hair pinned up to school to remain in compliance. But Arnold’s family claims that the school district revised its policy over the holidays to include more restrictions on hair length.it was down it would be out of dress code,” Arnold told the news station.that appears on its website states that male students’ hair should not “extend, at any time, below the eyebrows, or below the ear lobes.
“Male students’ hair must not extend below the top of a t-shirt collar or be gathered or worn in a style that would allow the hair to extend below the top of a t-shirt collar, below the eyebrows, or below the ear lobes when let down,” the policy continues.
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