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Juelz “JT” Trice, 13, was a student at Berry Miller Junior High School when he told multiple news outlets that then-assistant Principal Tony Barcelona told him on April 17 that his haircut, which highlighted an “M” design, was a violation of the school dress code.
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“He came over and said, ‘You have two options: You can either go to [in-school suspension] or color it in,'” Juelz told ABC affiliate KTRK.

he school is in the Pearland Independent School District, about 20 miles south of Houston in the city of Pearland. The city’s population is about 62 percent white and 16 percent Black, according to U.S. Census records.

The lawsuit filing Atlanta Black Star obtained maintains that Juelz was a track athlete who had never been in trouble when he was accused of breaking the dress code. He chose the marker because he didn’t want to jeopardize his participation on the school’s track team, according to the suit.

Randall Kallinen, the attorney who filed the suit on behalf of Juelz’s parents, named the school district, Barcelona, the discipline clerk Helen Day and teacher Jeanette Peterson in the lawsuit.

Kallinen said Barcelona sent the student to Day’s office and later joined them to witness Day handing Juelz a jet-black Sharpie marker.

When he started coloring his hair, the markings made the design more prominent and Kallinen said at that point Day took over coloring in the child’s scalp.

She only stopped after allegedly asking Peterson, who happened to stop by the office, to pick up where the discipline administrator left off.

All three employees laughed at the child, Kallinen alleged in the lawsuit.

“J.T. was not laughing but very frightened of these three much larger Pearland ISD employees coloring his scalp jet black,” Kallinen said in the lawsuit.

When the employees finished, Juelz was sent to study hall because he had missed Spanish class, Kallinen said.

He called the coloring job, which took many days to scrub off, “highly offensive.”

“There are hardly any African Americans in America with jet black skin and, of course, neither does J.T.” Kallinen said. “It is commonly understood among scholars and the general public that depicting African Americans with jet black skin is a negative racial stereotype.

“During the Jim Crow era slaves were often depicted as happy in their slave existence and with jet black skin as a means to disguise their humanity and imply that they are unlike ‘white’ people.”
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From reddit comments:

The current dress code does not address hair designs but states that hair “must be clean, neat and well groomed” and that “distracting colors are not allowed.”

So, his hair wasn't in violation at all according to their own code. Otherwise, it would also state "no fade haircuts".
 
School administrators and teachers are sometimes so terrible. Some of them get wrapped up in what they think is their authority and they lose sight of what their jobs are supposed to be.

The administrators in this case were plainly not thinking of the well-being of any of the students when they did this act. Had they cared to apply 15 seconds of thought or sensitivity, they could have known that they were opening the kid up to being improperly harassed. In order to do something this dumb, all they could have been thinking about was how to inflict some sort of punishment (they call this discipline) for something not even specified in their rules.

Someone should like, be barred from ever working with kids again. Like, go drive a trash truck or something. Because they aren't responsible enough to do this job.
 
There is a certain type of school employees who retain their adolescent mindset.
They attend school and college, then return to school to run it and they don't bring much maturity.

Like @Keepalowprofile said: a very public apology. In assembly. No money, and no scholarship unless merited.
The kid is going to get plenty of mileage from all this publicity.
 
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Another black student has been humiliated by school faculty over hair.

Pearland Independent School District in Texas is being hit with a lawsuit by parents Dante Trice and Angela Washington, who say faculty at Berry Miller Junior High School disciplined their son, J.T., by using a black Sharpie marker to color in the boy’s fade haircut, which staffers allege violates the school’s dress code.

According to the suit, the 13-year-old got a “fade haircut with a design line” on April 16, featuring a track — like an artificial hair part — resembling the letter M.

“The haircut did not depict anything violent, gang-related, obscene or otherwise offensive or inappropriate in any manner. J.T. did not believe the haircut violated any school policy,” the suit stated

Full Story:
https://nypost.com/2019/08/20/school-forced-black-student-to-sharpie-in-his-haircut-lawsuit/
 
You know this really isn't worth making this kid's life a living hell over or trying to embarrass him. He wasn't harming anybody there was nothing offensive on his head. White people need to stop picking on innocent black people that just aren't doing a damn thing wrong.
 
It's ironic because this happened at the end of the school year a few months ago and this is the first article I've read regarding the boy's race or it being a black/white issue. I graduated from this district so it was all over the local news at the time. The haircut violated school dress code. While I don't agree with the decision to touch the boy at all, let alone fill in his design with a permanent marker, perhaps there was a history with this boy/family of disregarding the dress code.
If it's going to become a black/white/color issue, someone needs to do some demographic research on Pearland, Texas first.
 
I think for all the kids, if the violation isn't egregious, issue warnings at first, telling them that the next one would be suspension or whatever the punishment is. He could then let his hair grow in naturally, instead of the stupidity they tried here.

I understand as much as everyone else that kids are going to take advantage, but really this stuff is getting ridiculous.
 
ETA: Pearland is a large, diverse city, not some po-dunk "string 'em up" hickville. The media just runs with the race card garbage. I tried to find faculty pictures of those involved, but it appears Jeanette Peterson (white teacher) is the only one still employed at that school.
Student Ethnic Distribution
  • Native Hawaiian0.1%
    American Indian.3%
    Multi-racial3.7%
    Asian11.0%
    Black14.8%
    Hispanic34.6%
    White35.5%
 
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