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East Texas school district tells boy to cut his hair or wear a dress. This is 2019 isn't it?
Boy told to cut hair or wear a dress
He's in Texas, of course. Don't all these cases occur in Texas? Sure seems like it.
It does seem like it. You'd think after what we went through in the 60s and 70s that long hair would be more accepted.
Haha have you learned nothing since the 60s? Nothing the hippies fought for changed anything.
He looks like he could be American Indian or a mix of American Indian and African American. His hair texture is not unknown among Muskogee peoples such as the Alabama-Coushatta tribe, Houma, Choctaw, Chickasaw and Muskogee Creek. Texas started out its independence from Mexico trying to help the Cherokee with a reservation there, but has become a place of little hope. Ironic for a state named after a word for "Peace" in a Native American language. It is well known among American Indians that the further west one goes, the more tension there is against Native Americans and American Indians. I wonder if some of that is at play here. I hope the grandmother wins her case in court.
I think they should stick it to the super and send the boy to school in a kilt!
Texas is such a backwards country!
Well, characterizing the entire state of Texas for such idiocy is not unlike saying the character of the USA is typified by the Trump adminstration. Neither is true. Places are much more complex than that.
I've lived in Texas all my life and had long hair most of that time. Long hair prejudice seems pretty unevident in my range of interaction, though I do live in the more urban Dallas area. Most all these stories of hair bigotry that turn up in Texas are from rural areas where, apparently, some jerks in official positions get their kicks by bullying little kids. The pay scale and personnel standards for educators in rural areas is pretty low these days. Obviously in some place communities end up with some pretty low quality people because they're all that are available.
Support higher salaries and standards for local education and we might see and end to such shameful nonsense. While it may seem to make the news more often in Texas, the whole US is suffering from an education funding and quality crisis.
Its a disgrace. When I first started growing, way back in 06, I used to work at a gun manufacturer's and I had a similar experience. I worked in the shops, but a woman who lead the sales department once told me that I would never work at her department as long as I kept my hair long. I wasn't hurt, since I would have never changed my proud blue collar for a white one, but it still was a low class thing to say to an employee.
good for this grandma.. taking the fight back to them.
(sigh) It may be 2019, but it is also East Texas. I was in Houston a couple years back and some idiot from a passing car shouted, "Get a haircut, f****t" and sped off.
That little boy has a beautiful head of hair. That would be a shame to cut it!
