In 2017, should a haircut make a child unable to learn?

Cedar Bayou Junior High School student, Xavier Davis went to school last Thursday thinking it’d be a regular day. Instead, it was the day that the haircut he’d been wearing for months would get him into trouble.

According to CNN, the district’s code of conduct, "Letters, symbols, and designs beyond a single straight line which draw attention to an individual shall not be permitted. The administrator/supervisor reserves the right to determine if a hairstyle is disruptive to the educational process." Xavier just so happened to have two small lines cut into his head.

Davis states that the school gave him in school suspension and stated his hair needed to be fixed by the following Monday. "He's had his hair cut like this for six months and now all of a sudden it's a problem?" said his father, Matt Davis. "I don't know if having one line or two is a distraction to learning, it's not a distraction to me," Davis said to the local news. "It's nonsense. We send him here to get an education. We send him here to learn. It's not about his haircut."

Xavier was allowed to attend classes after his mother filled in one of the lines with a sharpie. SMH

Cedar Bayou Junior High School

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