A black teenager has said he has been suspended from high school and told he can't attend his graduation ceremony unless he cuts his dreadlocks.
DeAndre Arnold, a senior at Barbers Hill High School in Mont Belvieu, near Houston, Texas, said he has worn dreadlocks for years and always followed the school's dress code by tying them up. The 18-year-old told NBC affiliate KPRC his father is from Trinidad and many men in his family wear their hair in this style.He said his hair had been in compliance with school district rules until recently, when he faced in-school suspension after he refused to cut it.
"I really like that part of Trinidadian culture," he told the station."So, I mean I really embrace that."His mother, Sandy Arnold, said after the Christmas holiday, three months before graduation, the Barbers Hill Independent School District changed its dress code on hair. Now the rules stipulate that for male students"hair must be clean and well groomed" and not extend below the eyebrows, the ear lobes or the top of a T-shirt collar - including when let down.
Source: Education Headlines (educationheadlines.net)
Do as you are told and follow the school rules
Ridiculous...
Bullocks!
Rules are rules! Shame the headline has put black into the title and rather needlessly. Unless there is a white guy that’s aloud a banned hair cut at that school.
Most schools have a strict code and hair is normally enforced. My daughter got get home once for having purple hair (by a teacher with purple hair) because it was distracting to others
He needs to get over it!!
important fact it changed its dress code on hair' within 3 months of his graduation Due to this he should his year should be exempt from the rule. If the rule changed to ALL students must have short hair parents of girls would be up in arms. So rather weird they changed now
Its very simple, nowdays people buy dreadlocks and fix with their hair.He can trim it and keep it safely to use it later after graduation
Why
Schools can be harsh to any pupil with a hairstyle they don’t like, it’s not race specific. My school in England was very strict on haircuts and styles. I can tell you the majority of pupils being pulled up on this issue were white if not all, so what’s your point?
Awwww can someone say victim of life not being fair? Wahhhhhh
Nobody see the irony that the school is called barbers. 😂 in any case, not even worth reading - shocking that people get paid to write this garbage
And.....?
They changed the rules slightly just before graduation. So he's already done but in order to attend graduation he has to cut the hair he's had throughout. Absolute nonsense.
Just get a hair cut.. End of problem.
He looks a scruff with it!
It happens to White Kids too GET OVER IT! School 🏫 Uniforms etc are there for reasons 👍🏻
And whts wrong in it U makng it divisive and racial news in shameful. A school is a school and what’s wrong in following schools protocol and process STOP ur divisive propaganda plz katiehopkins
And yet some schools allow boys to use girls toilets
WTF, dreadlocks making the news 🤦♂️
In the UK most schools have a strict hair policy, aggressively short or long or dyed. But when children start their school they and their parents are aware of the school rules by sending your child there is to accept those rules failure to abide by the rules has consequences
The school has rules , follow them. Pretty simple.
Take your pick,is it racism,the dislike of dreadlocks,the school rules,those locks are quite long,so why didn't the school mention this as he was growing them a while ago.
Rules is rules so black don't come into it.
And that is news Sky?
What !? Not a Love Island story !? Gutted 🤷♂️
Maybe this is part of the young mans religion ? How comethey allowed him to attend school with them but not his graduation, what does it matter if he has dreads or an Afro or would he need to cut? RacismStillAlive
Not news worthy
Making it a racial thing, schools have rules blacksweavesmatter
Outrageous.
If the rule has been in place for a while then he knew the consequences of having them & tough...his colour is largely irrelevant because any man of any colour can grow dreads...that part is being used for effect ....
🙄🙄🙄 yea the US is racist BreakingNews
Here we go again! Race story AGAIN! The Media and the Elites that control them are trying to start a race war , its not left vs right black vs white its the 1% solidifying their hold on society!
This is not fucking news
Is school policy and must be respected
Wouldn’t say anything to Muslims with their headgear.
What someone does with their own hair is nobody's damn business.
Why is this news
Completely ridiculous, He didn't get dreds overnight which means he has been attending school with them for quite awhile, leave him alone and celebrate that he is graduating!
Black teenager breaks school rules. Is a more accurate headline. Good that you’re Keeping the race agitating up.
Trumps not invited as he has a stupid haircut.
It has nothing to do with race or hair. It has to do with rules and discipline. I’f students can’t follow these simple things at school, How will they fair in the real world However he can always tie his hair up, I had to when I was at school. What did he do ‘before graduation’
It's good for this young man to learn there are often rules in the real world. Comply, move on and be successful
Rules are rules, lets have some real news & not something we cant do anything about its another Country/School rules move on
Get a hair cut then?
That’s disgusting and racist it’s none their business how he has his hair what a despicable school 🏫what’s happened to the world
Welcome to the adult world of Rules. Next story.
Non news AGAIN.
Cut it then if bothered or go elsewhere
You keep pushing this boring story. Face baiting nonsense, ply by the rules or get out
Sky News UK 🇬🇧 is now owned by 👉 𝗖𝗕𝗦/ 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗰𝗮𝘀𝘁 👈 (𝘜𝘚 🇺🇸𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘢𝘯𝘺). Does that explain a few things?
WTF
Mum should give him a slap cut his hair and respect the school as the other 10,000 students do ! But no let’s play a racist card well done mum no hope for your son if that’s the way you have brought him up just ignore authority ! Great
Too many barbers on the Barbers Hill board of narrow-minded governors:
Emmm this is in Texas not the UK. CLICK BAIT again.
And his skin colour is relevant because........?
When I was at school we were not allowed skinhead hair cuts at school
If that's the school policy fair enough. My mate got sent home for coming in with a skinhead
Has this story been verified, because sky has produced articles that are not the whole truth!
Unfair
I absolutely.... looove the look of dreadlocks.... Far far nicer than the shaved off criminal - scaffy looking hair cuts they're getting done now. Leave the guy alone.
You go to school and study with dreadlocks you kind of expect to pick up your diploma in the same manner? Ridiculous decision
And of all the pictures of this black teen that would present to the world his real self, why this particular picture that looks like it's from a horror movie
Just say ‘a teenager’, not ‘a black teenager’ as that’s bringing race into it 🤬.
💤💤💤💤💤💤💤 boring
Why do you report the headline like this instead of mentioning that the school recently changed their rules and as a result have suspended a student who had followed it throughout his duration there but now three months before graduation they decide to change it?
Disgracefully if true.
/ The Land of The Free & Brave ! Ugh ! Not so free after all Fella is it Texas one wonders Just What those Fighting at the Alamo ! would comment !!!
Outstanding Hair . Topmop!
Why do they think rules should be changed for one person if that school doesn’t allow it give one that does it doesn’t look good his fathers is managed better ?
Get your hair cut then you scruffy git. The rules apply to everyone, you are no special case. Now play the race card, eh!
It's not a bad thing being suspended. He won't learn the rubbish that they drill into our young
Do nits have human rights? School enforcing standards! Is this international news or PR crap?
Oh please.... this is Trump’s 2020 America and it’s Texas for goodness sake, the racist capital of the world! Of course this because of his skin colour. This is a rule made up by a rich, white Republican. America is really becoming great again (Not!)
Let him be
Go back to 3rd world Trinidad then
Outrageous
Dreaming67YAH TELLEsau GOBACK2HELL SOONERTHANLATER THEALLBLACKMESSIAH WILL PUTTHEMBACK 2 THAT HELLFIRE WHERE THEY ORIGINATED FROM🔥! LOCKS ARE THE ISRAELITES CULTURE THEALLBLACKNATION OF THECREATOR WHO HATES THEM⚔️ WALK4YAH=THECREATOR FUK THEIR SOCALLEDSchool oF DECEIT🚀
What bs
A school in Texas....really! Not newsworthy at all.
Good as he should.... why should every other kid that goes to that school follow the rules!!! He’s not special and doesn’t deserve to be treated differently!!! It’s not one rule for him and other rules for everyone else. I hope he doesn’t graduate let’s see how cool he is then!!
Seriously it's just hair, how can we tell teenage girls it don't matter what they look like on the outside it's what's inside that counts and then kick off at a boy for his tidy dreadlocks? The focus should be on their achievements not their appearance its 2020 ffs
Boring
Awww - life isn’t fair
Who cares it’s Texas ?
Barbers Hill Cut your hair .... Barbers Hill
Still? So maddening.
All the kids follow the same rules, this little snowflake isn't above them.
Keyword is if the kid doesnt like the rules , find somewhere else . Rules are there for everyone , and should be adhered to by everyone
DISGRACE.
Nothing wrong with his hair. It is neat, clean & tidy. He does not present a bad image & it certainly doesn't affect his ability to study or graduate. Nothing more than discrimination. 🎓
ICMI- Often, dreadlocks become a symbol of religious devotion, an ascetic's vow not to alter God's creation through grooming. In Ethiopia, priests in Christian Coptic churches have worn dreadlocks for hundreds of years.
Quite right! It’s Texas!
Many schools have haircut rules, I don't see a problem... Unless you're trying to imply that it's just because he's black, when that's obviously not the issue here. I do see a problem with you trying to imply racism.
The giveaway key word here is TEXAS !!
Told to cut hair by 'Barbers Hill Independent School District'...
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