# @houstonpubmedia on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2024-02-23T17:43:30.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Jayla Rhodes (@jayrhomedia) — https://gondola.cc/jayrhomedia

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A Houston-area judge on Thursday determined that Barbers Hill ISD has not violated Texas' CROWN Act after the district repeatedly suspended a Black student for the length of his dreadlocks.

Darryl George, an 18-year-old Black student at Barbers Hill High School east of Houston, has been repeatedly suspended for his dreadlocks. George's family and legal team say his hair is protected under the CROWN Act, which prohibits race-based hair discrimination against students and employers, while the school district claims George has been in violation of the district's grooming policy due to the length of his hair, not the style.

According to the district's student handbook, a male student’s hair cannot "be gathered or worn in a style that would allow the hair to extend below the top of a t-shirt collar, below the eyebrows, or below the ear lobes when let down." George has refused to cut his hair but has worn it up in a style that doesn't go past his neck, eyebrows or earlobes.

Ultimately, Judge Chap B. Cain sided with Barbers Hill ISD, declaring that the school district’s dress code doesn’t violate the CROWN Act, which he said could’ve been written to include hair-length exemptions for students with dreadlocks. Upon hearing Cain’s ruling, George and his mother were visibly distraught and left shortly after.

Read the full story by Lucio Vasquez at houstonpublicmedia.org
📸: Lucio Vasquez / Houston Public Media
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