Wow! The black Texas high school student who has been serving more than a month of in-school suspension over his dreadlocks was informed that he will be removed from his high school and sent to a disciplinary alternative education program on Thursday.
According to ABC News, Darryl George, 18, who is a junior at Barbers Hill High School in Mont Belvieu will reportedly have to attend EPIC. Which is an alternative school program. The 18-year-old is set to attend the school from Oct. 12 through Nov. 29. According to the report, the reason for the decision is because Darryl George reportedly failed “to comply” with multiple campus and classroom regulations, the principal said in a Wednesday letter provided to The Associated Press by the family.
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Murphy wrote that George can return to the classroom on Nov. 30. His family cannot appeal the decision because the alternative school referral was not for a period longer than 60 days, according to the Texas Education Code cited in the letter.
As we previously reported, George was suspended after school officials said his twisted dreadlocks violated the district’s dress and grooming code. Although the district’s policy does not prohibit dreadlocks or braids, it states that male student’s hair cannot “be gathered or worn in a style that would allow the hair to extend below the top of a t-shirt collar, below the eyebrows, or below the ear lobes when let down.”
But George’s mother, Darresha George, and Allie Booker, the family’s attorney, have denied that the teenager’s hairstyle violates the district’s policy.
Last month the family filed a formal complaint with the Texas Education Agency and a federal civil rights lawsuit against the state’s governor and attorney general, alleging they failed to enforce a new law outlawing discrimination based on hairstyles.
The lawsuit and supporters of George allege that his ongoing suspension is a violation of Texas’ CROWN Act, a new law that is intended to prohibit “discrimination on the basis of hair texture or protective hairstyle associated with race,” according to state Rep. Rhetta Andrews Bowers, D-Rowlett, who authored the bill.
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