“Though the district allows dreadlocks, male students’ hair cannot extend below the eyebrows or ear lobes, and must be kept shorter than the top of a T-shirt collar.”
Its only racial if non black students are allowed to ignore the rule.
Sounds like local mores are stuck in the 1960s…not so surprising for a small town like that, I would think.
Darn Beatles should be banned.
It seems they just changed the rule, over Christmas, which now affects this one student a few months before his graduation.
"Deandre said he wears his hair in compliance with the dress code. But after Christmas break and three months before graduation, his mother said the district changed the dress code policy.
“They say that even (when) my hair is up if it were to be down it would be not in compliance with the dress code. However, I don’t take it down in the school,” he said."
Can anyone explain why dreadlocks are so appealing? I am not saying people arent entitled to wear their hair they want but I would like to know what the appeal is about dreadlocks.
I suppose culture plays a big part. People like what people like. I just thought maybe I was missing something with the appeal of dreadlocks. Much like the mullet. I never understood that hair style as well. But I loved the saying derived from it business in the front and party in ths back.
Locs aren’t a fad. They’ve been a part of American black culture for like fifty years and Caribbean culture for longer than that, where in a lot of cases it has religious significance.
In my experience, interesting things tend to happen when a school district is facing down a good lawyer a few hours before a big ceremony the whole town is coming to.