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Charles Oliver | 10.18.2011 6:00 AM

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Marshall Junior High School in Texas bars students from having "designs shaved into their hair." So when Sheldon Williams showed up for classes with lines shaved into his hair officials took a permanent marker and filled in those lines.

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