Students sue Texas school district for banning long hair on boys

[Jilly_in_VA]

Seven students are suing a Texas school district over its dress-code policy banning boys from having long hair.

According to the suit, school officials suspended a 9-year-old boy for a month, barred him from recess and normal lunch breaks as punishment for long hair.

He and the other students, aged 7 to 17, say the policy violates the constitution and Title IX - a federal law prohibiting sex discrimination.

The school district said on Thursday it was reviewing the suit.

Magnolia Independent School District "respects varying viewpoints, and we respect the rights of citizens to advocate for change," spokeswoman Denise Meyers said in an email to US media.

The district, which serves roughly 13,000 students about 40 miles (64km) northwest of Houston, did not return a request for comment from the BBC.

According to its dress code policy, boys cannot wear their hair over their eyes, past the bottom of their ears, or past the bottom of a dress shirt collar. Facing backlash this summer, Magnolia defended the policy, saying it "reflects the values of our community at large".

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-59013608
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This again? Texass.......

[Wingus Dingus]

1. I'm glad Texas is willing to grapple with the big issues of our time.

[Probatim]

6. When all other problems have been solved, you go for utopia...

Next up - Unicorn Leash Laws.

[Mad_Machine76]

14. Utopia for them (I guess)

Dystopia for everybody else.

[underpants]

2. I guess that can't tuck it up under their hat

Long haired freaky people need not apply

[Irish_Dem]

3. Good grief, the boys were protesting the same issue when I was in high school.

Many decades ago.

[IL Dem]

4. Wasn't this crap fought out in the 70s?

n/t

[underpants]

5. Orange County TX - 2020 82% for Trump

https://www.co.orange.tx.us/media/Elections/2020/Orange%20County%20General%202020%20Election%20Day.pdf

[malaise]

7. Good

Rec

[ripcord]

8. I had to check the location

I thought maybe it was Muskogee Oklahoma.

[Mysterian]

9. And the students will win if a correct decision is made on the basis of existing jurisprudence,

but we have a highly activist right-wing Supreme Court that seeks only to further the fascist agenda of the republican party.

[GregariousGroundhog]

12. I suspect the Supreme Court would rule 5-4 for the students

I presume arguments in this case will probably mirror those in Bostock v. Clayton. If that's the case, then Roberts, Breyer, Sotomayor, Kagan, and Gorsuch would probably vote in favor of the students while Thomas, Alito, and Kavanaugh would vote in favor of the school district.

Ginsburg voted in favor of Bostock, but given that Barret clerked for Scalia, I imagine she would join Thomas/Alito/Kavanaugh in dissent.

[NickB79]

10. Mullets are coming back in style

[jcgoldie]

11. Who needs a time machine?

Want to experience the 1950s? Just plan a trip to Texas!

[Mad_Machine76]

15. But why?

[gratuitous]

16. The Magnolia Independent School District must be just flush with cash

But since the policy is in total alignment with the values of the community at large, none of the citizens will mind that the District is setting a big pile of money on fire to lose a court case.