Students Sue Texas School District For Banning Boys From Having Long Hair “A group of boys in Texas are suing the district over its bizarre and sexist hair-length policy.”
, and now boys can’t have long hair? One school district’s bizarre mandate over hair length has a group of boys fighting back., over a district policy that requires boys — but not girls — to wear short hair. In the state that is fighting tooth and nail to make sure schools can’t require masks in classrooms, one district has a requirement on hair length? Make it make sense.all range in age from 7 to 17, and claim that the district’s policy is based on gender stereotypes.
“We have warned the district repeatedly that its gender-based hair policy violates the Constitution, but the district continues to derail students’ lives and deny their right to a public education free from discrimination,” Brian Klosterboer, a staff attorney with the ACLU of Texas, said in a statement provided toThe rule requires that male students’ hair must be “no longer than the bottom of a dress shirt collar, bottom of the ear, and out of the eyes,” the district’s handbook states.
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