Michael Wyke/AP By Melissa Noel ·Updated January 24, 2024
A Texas superintendent is defending the decision to repeatedly suspend a Black student for wearing his natural hair in locs.
Greg Poole, Barbers Hill Independent School District superintendent, took out a full-page newspaper ad in the Houston Chronicle, explaining his rationale for suspending 17-year-old Darryl George, the Washington Post reports.
“Being an American requires conformity with the positive benefit of unity,” Poole wrote.”We have taken