Family files lawsuit after Texas student suspended for hairstyle A family of a Texas student has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit after his school suspended him for his hairstyle. 17-year-old Darryl George is currently serving an in-school suspension since August 31 for allegedly violating his school\u2019s dress code. The school\u2019s officials revealed that he broke the code from his dreadlocks falling below his eyebrows and ear lobes. George\u2019s mother, Darresha, has denied that her son violated any rules, considering he has twisted dreadlocks tied on the top of his head. In response, some people have declared the suspension violated the state\u2019s recently enacted CROWN Act. Texas family denies teenager\u2019s hairstyle violates dress code As first reported by AP News, the lawsuit claims Gov. Greg Abbott and Attorney General Ken Paxton failed to protect George\u2019s constitutional rights regarding discrimination and freedom of speech and expression. \u201cGeorge should be permitted to wear his hair in the manner in which he wears it\u2026 because the so-called neutral grooming policy has no close association with learning or safety and when applied, disproportionately impacts Black males,\u201d the family\u2019s attorney Allie Booker wrote. The family and their attorney also filed a formal complaint with the Texas Education Agency. The complaint alleged that school district officials mistreated George based on his hairstyle. It also claims that the school is forcing George to sit for eight hours on a stool. They also are allegedly preventing him from eating his free hot lunch. George\u2019s mother revealed that she had been hospitalized for panic and anxiety attacks in response to her son\u2019s suspension. The state\u2019s CROWN Act stands for Create a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair. This was enacted to prevent race-based hair discrimination and schools and employers from punishing people according to their hairstyles. George\u2019s school had told two Black male students to cut their dreadlocks in 2020. The two students\u2019 families also sued the school district, a case which helped approve the CROWN Act.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Family files lawsuit after Texas student suspended for hairstyle A family of a Texas student has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit after his school suspended him for his hairstyle. 17-year-old Darryl George is currently serving an in-school suspension since August 31 for allegedly violating his school\u2019s dress code. The school\u2019s officials revealed that he […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}