Judge upholds Texas school suspension of Black student over dreadlocks

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

65% : I can't be around my peers and enjoy my junior year because of my hair.
52% : "I can't get my education because of my hair.
51% : "All because of my hair?"
50% : Democratic state representative Ron Reynolds, who was one of the co-authors of the CROWN Act, said that while the protection of hair length was not specifically mentioned in the CROWN Act, it was inferred.
43% : "This is a pathetic, wilful and anti-Black misinterpretation of the CROWN Act," she wrote on X. "Black folks deserve to show up as our full selves without punishment or criminalization.
41% : "The Texas legal system has validated our position that the district's dress code does not violate the CROWN Act and that the CROWN Act does not give students unlimited self-expression," Barbers Hill Superintendent Greg Poole said in a statement.
35% : "This is what we mean by institutional racism," Mr Coleman said on X.
15% : "US representative Bonnie Watson Coleman, a New Jersey Democrat, also called the decision "a terrible interpretation of the CROWN Act".

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