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   From: nigger-lovers@disney.com   
      
   A Texas judge has ruled that a school district did not   
   discriminate against a black high school student when it   
   punished him over his dreadlocks.   
      
   Barbers Hill Independent School District suspended Darryl   
   George, 18, last August, saying his hairstyle violated its dress   
   code.   
      
   The judge found the Houston-area school did not break a state   
   law banning race-based bias on hair.   
      
   An attorney for the family said they plan to file an appeal.   
      
   Meanwhile, the student will remain on suspension and removed   
   from the school's regular classrooms.   
      
   Chambers County Judge Chap Cain III ruled in favour of the   
   school district after about three hours of testimony on Thursday.   
      
   Mr George spoke of his "anger, sadness, disappointment" outside   
   court after the decision.   
      
   How does black hair reflect black history?   
      
   The school district referred to its dress code, which says hair   
   cannot be "below the top of a T-shirt collar, below the   
   eyebrows, or below the ear lobes when let down".   
      
   But Mr George refused to cut his braided dreadlocks, with the   
   family citing its cultural significance in the black community.   
      
   Last year Texas passed the Crown Act, a state law designed to   
   prohibit race-based discrimination against people based on their   
   hairstyle.   
      
   Darresha George, the student's mother, filed a complaint on her   
   son's behalf, accusing the district of violating the newly   
   passed law.   
      
   The school district filed its own lawsuit in September, asking   
   the court to settle the matter, and Thursday's ruling was the   
   outcome of that case.   
      
   However, Barbers Hill High School's superintendent Dr Greg Poole   
   defended the school's decision, saying that the Crown Act did   
   not mention hair length specifically.   
      
   Since the start of Mr George's past year at Barbers Hill High   
   School, in August, he has been handed multiple disciplinary   
   penalties for refusing to cut his hair.   
      
   He was removed from class and placed on in-school suspension,   
   and later required to attend an off-campus programme.   
      
   "He has to sit on a stool for eight hours in a cubicle," his   
   mother told the Associated Press in August.   
      
   "That's very uncomfortable. Every day he'd come home, he'd say   
   his back hurts because he has to sit on a stool."   
      
   Barbers Hill ISD has previously made news headlines over dress   
   code conflicts with its black students.   
      
   De'Andre Arnold and Kaden Bradford were required to cut their   
   dreadlocks in 2020, and the two students' families sued.   
      
   In that case, a federal judge ruled the district's hair policy   
   was discriminatory.   
      
   A federal version of the Crown Act passed in the House of   
   Representatives in 2022, but did not pass in the Senate.   
      
   https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68377156   
      
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