Brickbat: A Line Too Far

Lightkeeper / Dreamstime.com

Officials with Cedar Bayou Junior High School in Texas threatened Xavier Davis with in-school suspension for having two lines in his hair. School rules permit no more than one line. His father says Davis had that haircut for six months before the school said anything to him. His mother took a Sharpie to one line, and now he confirms to school rules.

Comments

[Agammamon]

. . . now he confirms to . . .

Conforms.

[Trigger Hippie]

Look, when you wake up thirty minutes before your deadline with nothing in hand and are forced to toss out the first tepid, meh inducing Brickbat you happen across, one simply doesn't have time for editing.

[Bob K]

Quick someone call CPS that women is drawing with toxic markers on her sons head.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Second line is for closers.

[Libertarian]

Is it Groundhog day for everyone, or just me?

[Agile Cyborg]

This one wonders if faux positive hair added as an edge-bead of furry ringlets curlicued round the boy's crown would have mattered to the Negative Hair bureaucracy at that upstanding locale of unionized transmutation.

[Longtobefree]

They suddenly realized, after six months, that he was black, and therefore disruptive.

[DanO.]

SPOILER: Xavier is actually black, not the whitey pictured. Why not picture the actual black kid?
Why am I asking you?

[Unreconstructed (Sans Flag)]

You know, it's always nice to see your old school in the news. Or not.

[steve walsh]

If we were to relax the standards for this one kid then we'd have to relax them for all, and then where would we be? On the slippery slope to hell, that's where!

[Radioactive]

or HAIR HEAVEN!!!

[ColoradoKook]

It's a known gang symbol. Tell me you're not all familiar with the 2L Krew.

[timeconsumer]

2 Live Crew? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2_Live_Crew

[ColoradoKook]

Uncle Luther still has a big influence; it's just more subtle these days.

[Fuck you, Shikha (Nunya)]

But what does the school say about circles in your hair? Polygons? Cubes? Dodecahedrons?