Texas judge insists school was right in punishing boy for declining to change his hairstyle - Face2Face Africa

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Texas judge insists school was right in punishing boy for declining to change his hairstyle - Face2Face Africa

A judge has ruled that a punishment handed out to a black high school student, Darryl George, for declining to change his hairstyle does not contravene the state’s new law barring race-based hair discrimination. The 18-year-old boy has absented himself from his regular Houston-area high school classes since August 31 because the district, Barbers Hill, maintains that George’s hair length violates its dress code. In the lawsuit filed by the distr…