Wearing Locs might cost a black teen, DeAndre Arnold his graduation. The 18-year, a high school student of Barbers Hill High School, was suspended from attending. And subsequently banned from his graduation and prom for refusing to cut his locs.
ABCNews reported that DeAndre was on The Ellen Show, where he discussed his intentions to go to college and become a veterinarian. He also disclosed that he is decent of Trinidad. Locs as well as a part of culture and family heritage.
“There is no dress code policy that prohibits any cornrow or any other method of wearing of the hair,” the district’s superintendent, Greg Poole, said last week. “Our policy limits the length. It’s been that way for 30 years.”
However, the Barbers Hill Independent School District officials have come out to defend their decisions. DeAndre’s ban is on the grounds of his locs being longer that the appropriate length for male students’ hair. They maintained that it has nothing to do with color.
But many have come against the school’s decisions, especially Blacks and have pledged their support for DeAndre. Ellen DeGeneres presented him $20,000(Twenty Thousand dollars). She advised the school officials to do the right and have the policy changed.
