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Black student suspended over his hairstyle to be sent to an alternative education program

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After serving more than a month of in-school suspension over his dreadlocks, a Black student in Texas was told he will be removed from his high school and sent to a disciplinary alternative education program on Thursday. Darryl George, 18, is a junior at Barbers Hill High School in Mont Belvieu and ...

After serving more than a month of in-school suspension over his dreadlocks, a Black student in Texas was told he will be removed from his high school and sent to a disciplinary alternative education program on Thursday.
Darryl George, 18, is a junior at Barbers Hill High School in Mont Belvieu and has been suspended since Aug. 31. He will be sent to EPIC, an alternative school program, from Oct. 12 through Nov. 29 for “failure to comply” with multiple campus and classroom regulations, the principal said in a Wednesday letter provided to The Associated Press by the family.
Principal Lance Murphy wrote that George has repeatedly violated the district's “previously communicated standards of student conduct." The letter also says that George will be allowed to return to regular classroom instruction on Nov. 30 but will not be allowed to return to his high school's campus until then unless he's there to discuss his conduct with school administrators.
Barbers Hill Independent School District prohibits male students from having hair extending below the eyebrows, ear lobes or top of a T-shirt collar, according to the student handbook. Additionally, hair on all students must be clean, well-groomed, geometrical and not an unnatural color or variation. The school does not require uniforms.
George's mother, Darresha George, and the family's attorney deny the teenager's hairstyle violates the dress code. The family last month 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 family alleges George's suspension and subsequent discipline violate the state’s CROWN Act, which took effect Sept. 1. The law, an acronym for “Create a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair,” is intended to prohibit race-based hair discrimination and bars employers and schools from penalizing people because of hair texture or protective hairstyles including Afros, braids, dreadlocks, twists or Bantu knots.
A federal version passed in the U.S. House last year, but was not successful in the Senate.
The school district also filed a lawsuit in state district court asking a judge to clarify whether its dress code restrictions limiting student hair length for boys violates the CROWN Act. The lawsuit was filed in Chambers County, east of Houston.
George’s school previously clashed with two other Black male students over the dress code.
Barbers Hill officials told cousins De’Andre Arnold and Kaden Bradford they had to cut their dreadlocks in 2020. Their families sued the district in May 2020, and a federal judge later ruled the district’s hair policy was discriminatory. Their pending case helped spur Texas lawmakers to approve the state’s CROWN Act. Both students withdrew from the school, with Bradford returning after the judge’s ruling.

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Of course it's not, because she's white.
"She hasn't been suspended because she's white" is definately not the argument you think it is.
(Yes, I know that wasn't your intention but man, be careful how to word things maybe.)
Let's take a look at the 2 situations here:
Situation 1:
POC going to a public school being disciplined due to their hair style.
Situation 2:
White kid going to a private school threatened with discipline due to their hair style, but not actually disciplined in any way just because their parents went in to talk to them.
I don't know how any rational person looks at these and thinks "totally the same thing."
- Aside from the fact, you're quoting "totally the same thing.” Which I never said, you're ignoring the exact same situation, yet dismissing one because it had a better outcome, no thanks to my brother, simple because of race. You're clearly tip toeing which is pretty damn obvious with Situation 1 being about a "POC", yet situation 2 is a "white kid", why not a black kid? Why not a Caucasian? Finny, how the stupid PC terms only come out for one side? Also why should I "be careful" how I worded something? The PC police coming for me?
  The entire point is that literally the same dipshit rule exists, public and private, and kids get shit over it, and when one side if better at out arguing the school and it drops, it's because of race, nothing else, which ignores the common sense that if that were truly the driver, then my niece wouldn't have had that problem to begin with, but again...... MAKE IT abuot race!
  
  Right, I'm the one making unrelated things about race when you just spent a paragraph removed about "POC" and "white" being used which is completely irrelevant. Go ahead and swap them for "black" and "caucasian", it makes no difference to my post.
  dismissing one because it had a better outcome, no thanks to my brother, simple because of race.
  So are you arguing that this student's parents didn't go talk to the principal? Or do they need to get your brother specifically to talk to the principal, as he is the only one that can convince them to not enforce the rules for a specific student?
  and when one side if better at out arguing the school and it drops
  Oh, I see. The white family just happens to be better at arguing it than the black family. The black family that has hired a lawyer. To argue it.
  Man, your brother should look into getting a law degree.
  
  If they're irellevant why'd you use them them then? I also never said anything about white or black being better than the other with arguing , and insure ass shit never said anybody else, let alone them should use MY brother, save me your pitiful dramatics. Some people are better than others at that shit, YOU are the one thats now for the second time made it about the race, and not the underlying cause. Thanks for proving my point.
  
  If they're irellevant why'd you use them them then?
  Whether I used black or poc or white or caucasian is irrelevant. You're the one that went on a rant about the fact that I used one instead of the other. I just used appropriate words.
  Some people are better than others at that shit,
  They HIRED A LAWYER. A professional at "that shit." Spare me your dramatics.
  YOU are the one thats now for the second time made it about the race
  Because that is the only salient difference here.
  Thanks for proving my point.
  Do you think that's punctuation in an argument or something?
  "Signed: Sincerely yours, thanks for proving my point, racism doesn't exist."
  
  Whether I used black or poc or white or caucasian is irrelevant. You’re the one that went on a rant about the fact that I used one instead of the other. I just used appropriate words.
  Ah, the "appropriate one, gotcha. Because it's not appropriate to call a black person black, because it's not PC right?
  They HIRED A LAWYER. A professional at “that shit.” Spare me your dramatics.
  Point out the "dramatics" of saying some people are better at arguing than others. Hiring a lawyer is literally proof of that.
  Because that is the only salient difference here.
  One that you're going out of your way to prove, I made the comparison based on rules and event that followed, not the color of the kids skin.
  “Signed: Sincerely yours, thanks for proving my point, racism doesn’t exist.”
  Quote where I said racism doesn't exist, you're proof that it does.
  
  Ah, the "appropriate one, gotcha. Because it’s not appropriate to call a black person black, because it’s not PC right?
  I use an appropriate word. More than 1 word can be appropriate for a given situation. "Why did you say ' call a black person black,' instead of 'refer to a black person as black,'? Is 'refer' TOO PC FOR YOU?!?!?!?!?" is just as absurd as this nonsense you're on about. I'm done with this nonsense you're using to distract from your lack of coherent argument.
  Point out the “dramatics”
  These dramatics:
  it had a better outcome, no thanks to my brother, simple because of race
  Again, if your brother is that amazing he should get a law degree.
  and insure ass shit never said anybody else, let alone them should use MY brother
  (I think you mean "I'm sure as shit"? Which would still be grammatically incorrect.)
  Hiring a lawyer is literally proof of that.
  So if they both had someone "better at this shit" argue for them, what other difference can we find that might account for the different outcome?
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  Because that is the only salient difference here.
  One that you’re going out of your way to prove
  Yes? The original argument, that I am arguing, is that this is a result of racism. Do you know how arguments work? If my core argument is "this is racist" then my supporting arguments are going to also point out how this is racist. I'm not going to veer off into talking about how one time, at work, my brother talked to his boss and got a raise, because it's irrelevant to what I am arguing.
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  “Signed: Sincerely yours, thanks for proving my point, racism doesn’t exist.”
  Quote where I said racism doesn’t exist, you’re proof that it does.
  Oh sorry, I guess I should have had you sign off with "Racism only ever exists against white people":
  Happens all the time, except that doesn’t make the news, because they’re white, so even if they get suspended, or totally expelled, it’s not new worthy. Nobody cares if a white kid is punished, or for that fact if a white person is killed by a black cop.
  Signed, Sincerely, thank you for proving my point,
  -CileTheSane

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