A school district in Texas has decided to uphold a controversial hair rule as a part of their policy which stipulates that male students cannot have hair that is beyond a certain length, or they won't be able to graduate or attend graduation events.
The student in question attends Barbers Hill High School which is a public school in Mont Belvieu, Texas.
Whether a school be private or public, they have rules varying from one action to the next on what might be considered acceptable behavior. They dictate what you can be found with at school, what actions are acceptable, what words might not be allowed on certain clothing etc.
Weapons are commonly prohibited, phones or computers might not be allowed in the class, and so on.
For this school, one rule is the hair restriction. And that rule might not be applied equally to all students.
For one student that had been asked to skip classes until he cut his hair, he has been prevented from graduating over the ordeal. And the ACLU has also gotten involved,
providing alleged documentation that supports the notion that the policy might be unfairly imposed.
If this is the case then the policy is fueling discriminatory corruption and should be done away with rather than leaving it to be abused subjectively by whoever wants to cherry-pick which student shouldn't be allowed to graduate over a few inches of hair.
Despite the years of hard work and tests etc, that they've completed which should secure their right to graduate with the others just the same, students are prevented from finishing because of their hairstyle.
Despite getting a lot of media attention and backlash over the policy, they just recently voted to keep it in place.
If they want to have a 'grooming code' they can go ahead and introduce their policy, but if they are going to do that then the very least they could do is enforce the rules across the board evenly. There shouldn't be one, or a pattern, of certain individuals being found to have been excused from the rules where others are not. In many cases you only have one option of what school you can attend
based on your living location, and not everyone has the options or the freedom, financial ability etc, to up and move to an alternative school choice. Be that in another district or some private venue that might not restrict hairstyles in the same seemingly unfair way.
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