Get a damn haircut

[Shana A]

Get a damn haircut
Filed by: Alex Blaze
June 23, 2008 10:30 AM

http://www.bilerico.com/2008/06/get_a_damn_haircut.php 🔗

Here's an item that rolls gender anxiety and cultural superiority all into one.

Needville Elementary School in Texas is saying that Adrian Arocha, a 5-year-old Native boy, can't attend school this fall because his hair is too long. The school dress code requires that boys' hair be above the ear and not go below the collar - Adrian and his father, because of religious and cultural practices, have braids that go to their shoulders.

Girls can have long hair.

If this sounds familiar, it's because it's the same policy used by the US government to eliminate Native cultures in the late 19th and early 20th century at Indian boarding schools:

[Keira]

Native american's have long hair as part of their culture and religion.
I can't believe some school would so regressive and backward,
buy hey, forget it, its Texas... ( See movie Chinatown for another version of this
sentence).