Earlier this year, two Black students in Texas were suspended for violating a school policy that forbids male students from having long hair. This week, the school board voted unanimously to keep that policy in place.
in January following his suspension from high school because of a grooming policy forbidding long hair in boys. Arnold refused to cut his dreadlocks and was barred from attending his high school graduation ceremony and senior prom.Despite impassioned pleas from attorneys, a Texas school district is refusing to change its grooming policy that led to the suspension of two Black students earlier this year.
Barbers Hill ISD did not respond to a request for comment. At the board meeting Monday, an attorney for the school district said the policy had nothing to do with race, but was rather about maintaining a standard of excellence in Barbers Hill schools. That standard entails keeping one's hair short. "Anyone who's met Kaden and De'Andre, these students, knows how incredibly excellent they are," Klosterboer said."They have now sacrificed being away from their friends — being isolated at school — to stand up for their constitutional rights, and to stand up for their heritage, their family and their culture and for what they believe. And that is excellent."
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