A 6th-grader faced suspension for an unlikely reason in Baytown, TX.
Xavier Davis has a pretty simple haircut: two shaved lines on the side.
It’s a style his dad says he’s had for several months.
So imagine the family’s surprise when the sixth-grader was told by his teacher his haircut was a problem.
“I was walking into class, and she saw my hair and said, ‘You can’t have two lines in your hair. Go to the office,” Xavier told CNN affiliate KPRC.
School officials with Cedar Bayou Junior High in Baytown, Texas, told Xavier to either fix the haircut or face in-school suspension.
“He’s had his hair cut like this for six months and now all of a sudden it’s a problem?” Xavier’s father, Matt Davis, told the affiliate.
Xavier’s mother came up with a creative solution. She used a permanent marker to color the spaces in.
That’s ridiculous to have to color in your child’s hair to appease the school.
The school district told KPRC that “letters, symbols, and designs beyond a single straight line which draw attention to an individual shall not be permitted.”
“The administrator/supervisor reserves the right to determine if a hairstyle is disruptive to the educational process,” the statement said.
We can think of 10,000 other things that are more disruptive to learning than how many lines a child has cut into his hair.
