Barbers Hill High School, a campus that has made headlines multiple times for what many believe is race and gender discrimination, has transferred a Black male student to an alternative school because he refused to cut his locs.
School officials referred Darryl George to the disciplinary program because he simply would not adhere to the district’s dress codes.
Darryl George’s mother received the notice on Wednesday, Oct. 11, from the school’s principal, Lance Murphy, about her son being referred to a Disciplinary Alternative Education Program after he was put in in-school suspension on Tuesday, Aug. 31, regarding his hair.
He said that George had engaged in “multiple infractions of campus and classroom rules.”
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“As the School Principal, I have determined that your child has engaged in chronic or repeated disciplinary infractions that violate the District’s previously communicated standards of student conduct.”
These infractions, the administrator said, were the “disruption of the ISS classroom” and the
“failure to comply with directives from staff/administration.”
Murphy also said that in addition to violating “the dress and grooming policy,” the 18-year-old was always late.
Attorney Allie Booker, who represents George and his family, says this is “retaliation” because the parents have decided to sue.
The school district’s recent action, according to Booker, is a reaction to an ongoing legal dispute about his locs hairstyle. The family contends that the young man usually wears his hair in braids or a ponytail and that the hair does not pass his eyes or ears. Technically, George’s family and attorneys argue that it does not breach the dress code’s restrictions.
The school and the district would not budge, saying the hair length is too long for male students in the district.
Before this, school authorities had warned the young man and his family that the consequences…
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