In the early 70's my high school had a walkout over the dress code - the main focus was the policing of long hair and afros. And yes, it was in Texass. We prevailed as the schools got funded on the number of students in class each day, so having a third of the students milling about in the parking lot and the side streets hit them in the place they really cared about and that was their money.
It saddens me to think that the changes we managed to get have to be re-litigated again now, but then again it's Texass.
There was a demonstration against the dress code in my high school in the EARLY SEVENTIES, and they got rid of it. Hair, skirt lengths, girls in pants. JHC.
Graduated in '71. Same shit in my HS. We had a state champion B'Ball team and we refused, en masse, to cut our hair short per the coaches' dictates......they relented when they couldn't field a single player......the rest of the school followed suit and the dress code hit the road (the coach quit in disgust at being thwarted........he didn't know diddly shit about the game anyway........)
When your senator is Ted Cruz, do you really want to be the hair police? George’s hairstyle isn’t to my taste, but at least it doesn’t look like dryer lint rolled in rancid mayonnaise and then glued onto a moldy potato.
This reminds me of a few years back when the Army revised AR 670-1 (the reg about uniforms and appearance) and they included a LOT of things about female hairstyles. It was very clear that no one had asked a Black woman. Who would’ve pointed out that given the new standard Black women would just have to like…not have hair? What would you like them to do with their hair if everything is forbidden? Unlike Texas, the Army, embarrassed that they didn’t think to run it by ANYone with textured hair went ‘our bad!’ And they consulted Black women, like they should’ve done to begin with.
This also raises the question "conformity" to what? We have over 300 million people in this country and we are not clones. I'm okay if they want to confirm to me. They'd better go out and get themselves some cats and chocolate to start.
Greg Poole who sports a beatnik goatee didn't have his bongo drums with him but was snapping his fingers in time with the groove said it was in the name of conformity. The dude was born 85 years too late to be hep. Would black people conform if they were white?
The high school l and my daughter attended (no, not at the same time) has a dress code - no swears or racism on your t-shirt etc. and the no swears one was not as far as I know ever enforced, yet it is consistently the high school with the highest rate of kids getting scholarships and highest rate of kids going on to post secondary education in the district. Strange ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I always get a kick out of fascistic school administrators cracking down on clothes and hairstyles. If they would just relax and wait for these kids' first reunions, they would enjoy the now adult people looking at their yearbook photos and screaming "what was I thinking looking like that?!" 😁
In the early 70's my high school had a walkout over the dress code - the main focus was the policing of long hair and afros. And yes, it was in Texass. We prevailed as the schools got funded on the number of students in class each day, so having a third of the students milling about in the parking lot and the side streets hit them in the place they really cared about and that was their money.
It saddens me to think that the changes we managed to get have to be re-litigated again now, but then again it's Texass.
He violated the unwritten part of the dress code about being "uppity".
Please, I certainly hope young Mr George and his family wind up owning the school district. What assholes. But, Texas :(
There was a demonstration against the dress code in my high school in the EARLY SEVENTIES, and they got rid of it. Hair, skirt lengths, girls in pants. JHC.
Graduated in '71. Same shit in my HS. We had a state champion B'Ball team and we refused, en masse, to cut our hair short per the coaches' dictates......they relented when they couldn't field a single player......the rest of the school followed suit and the dress code hit the road (the coach quit in disgust at being thwarted........he didn't know diddly shit about the game anyway........)
Why would anyone want to live or work in Texas? If you get out, get out!
Ta, Stephen. Dress codes are stupid enough, but hair codes? I've rarely seen a hairstyle as neat and beautiful as George's locs. SMDH.
When your senator is Ted Cruz, do you really want to be the hair police? George’s hairstyle isn’t to my taste, but at least it doesn’t look like dryer lint rolled in rancid mayonnaise and then glued onto a moldy potato.
This reminds me of a few years back when the Army revised AR 670-1 (the reg about uniforms and appearance) and they included a LOT of things about female hairstyles. It was very clear that no one had asked a Black woman. Who would’ve pointed out that given the new standard Black women would just have to like…not have hair? What would you like them to do with their hair if everything is forbidden? Unlike Texas, the Army, embarrassed that they didn’t think to run it by ANYone with textured hair went ‘our bad!’ And they consulted Black women, like they should’ve done to begin with.
Well, they did. So that's good. Texas though is still a hundred years ago.
Tuck Fexas.
My school super denied boys being able to wear shorts (waaay back in the 60s) with the claim that "the male is an ugly creature".
One wonders how some people survive to adulthood they're so goddam stupid.
When people get this upset and judgmental about hair, you can be sure there is something wrong with those people.
“Being an American requires conformity with the positive benefit of unity.”
Wait - i thought y'all were all about exceptionism?
This also raises the question "conformity" to what? We have over 300 million people in this country and we are not clones. I'm okay if they want to confirm to me. They'd better go out and get themselves some cats and chocolate to start.
Greg Poole who sports a beatnik goatee didn't have his bongo drums with him but was snapping his fingers in time with the groove said it was in the name of conformity. The dude was born 85 years too late to be hep. Would black people conform if they were white?
"Being an American requires conformity..." Jesus dude, do you know people can hear you?
The high school l and my daughter attended (no, not at the same time) has a dress code - no swears or racism on your t-shirt etc. and the no swears one was not as far as I know ever enforced, yet it is consistently the high school with the highest rate of kids getting scholarships and highest rate of kids going on to post secondary education in the district. Strange ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I always get a kick out of fascistic school administrators cracking down on clothes and hairstyles. If they would just relax and wait for these kids' first reunions, they would enjoy the now adult people looking at their yearbook photos and screaming "what was I thinking looking like that?!" 😁
“Barbers Hill High School?” Seriously?