A Texas family has filed a federal lawsuit against their son's school district, accusing it of discriminating against the boy by drawing on his scalp with a permanent marker in an effort to bring his haircut up to code.
A Texas family filed a federal lawsuit against their son's school district on Sunday, accusing it of discriminating against the boy by drawing on his scalp with a permanent marker in an effort to bring his haircut up to code.
That's when he was allegedly told that he would be put in school suspension or the line design in his haircut would be immediately filled in with marker, according to the civil claim. The lawsuit said neither the principal nor the discipline clerk contacted the boy's parents before taking action. "When it first happened, I was very upset because I didn't find out until after he got off the bus and he got into the car and said, 'Look what they did to my head,'" Juelz's mother, Angela Washington, told ABC's Houston station KTRK.
"They were very apologetic, but it still happened. … You know, for an adult, no one should think that's the correct way to handle a situation," the boy's mother added.
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