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Dress code standards for hair and appearance are pretty dumb... but even as they are written in this school district, I don't understand how this kid's hair violates it.
The code says the hair can't extend below the eyebrows or below the ear lobes...and this kid's hair is above his eyebrows and above his ear lobes. I'm looking at the student's front, side, and back photos that are attached to the linked news article. What is the problem?
The "problem" is hes black and the school wanted to punish him for that. But they dont want to just come out and say it just like they didnt want to show their faces back in the days of the klan.
The actual dress code written in the article is:
It’s basically “no long hair, regardless of how it is styled.”
Land of the free, home of the "long hair is only for girls".
This view is rooted in 1 Corinthians 11:14-15 "Does not nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a disgrace for him, but if a woman has long hair, it is her glory? For her hair is given to her for a covering".
I have no point to make beyond pointing that out as trivia.
Modern depictions of Jesus in shambles.
Paul said a lot of things in his letters that only could have possibly made sense in the time and place of the person/city he was writing to. Yet almost 2000 years later, people are still taking it as an absolute truth.
Paul flat out contradicts the Bible at points. Doesn't he say to refuse food to people in your commune if they aren't working?
His sexism doesn't make sense either. There is a very heavy implication in having the women who followed Jesus maintain their faith and belief when even the disciples did not. Maybe it's unintentional, but it very clearly suggests that the women are far more pious and holy. Paul has no business saying they have no dominion over him.
Sucks to be Samson
Right? I wonder how Paul thought about that?
More like Racist School District is Racist As Fuck. Texas passed a law making this shit illegal, primarily because of this exact School District!
If you have to tell people how free they are, they're not.
Not quite. He is not really wearing a style that would allow the hair to extend below the collar, brows, or lobes because he can't just take out his hair style. Its not a pony tail to be removed and distract all the boys like in the movies, its been documented to be in place for at least 8 days. And even if he did his hair could stick straight out or stright up. Seems like the dress code was written for white people hair and instead of using any sort of common sense to not enforce or even just change the code the school is doubling down on murky rules in the national eye. If it walks like a racist, talks like a racist, and deprives black people of an education because of their hair its probably a racist.
We need to start living by the "see a racist/Nazi, punch a racist/Nazi" standard.
Common sense would help if it was an oversight. It's not.
You know, I was coming in here to make a joke about how when the article says
they would say that "any time" also applies when he takes a shower at home, but the code literally says that. Yikes.
So, no male Sihk students are allowed, unless there's a religious exemption.
You think this backwater bunch of racists gives a fuck about religions that aren't their particular flavor of Christian?
That's such fucking bullshit. Might as well demand a buzzcut and be done with it.
As far as I can tell, the "problem" is that the dresscode states that the student's hair can't extend below his eyebrows or ear lobes "at any time". So, hypothetically, if this student took his hair down out of the braids, it would be longer than the dresscode allowed.
This, of course, is fucking stupid reasoning. The school probably just doesn't like this hairstyle - because racism - and is choosing to use an overly literal reading of the rule to try to force the student to change it.
From the interview, his mother says it's because if he let his hair down it might "extend below the eyebrows or below the ear lobes". I think it's a poorly written policy, because in my interpretation, he would only be in violation if he let his hair down, but he's in compliance as long as he never does that at school. And even then, would for example, an afro violate that? It sounds like they should have included in the policy “male students’ hair will must be no longer than 3" at any point" but again, that's a poorly written policy, waiting for holes to be punched in it.
It's well written for its intended purpose.
I'm assuming that his hair was slightly different from when this picture was taken. Not that it matters even a little bit. Codes like this are written for the purpose of giving authorities an excuse to persecute. Wouldn't be surprising if they ignored plenty of violations from "upstanding" (read: white) students.