Drawing the Line
“I was walking into class,” said sixth-grader Xavier Davis, “and she saw my hair and said, ‘You can’t have two lines in your hair. Go to the office.’” He was given a few days to fix the hairstyle, which he’d had for six months; after that, if he still had the two lines, he’d get in-school suspension for violating the dress code. After he suffered one day of punishment, his mother fixed his hair to the Baytown, Texas, school’s satisfaction: she colored in part of his scalp with a Sharpie. (AC/KPRC Houston) ...For those unfamiliar, a “Sharpie” is a brand of marking pen whose tip is sharper than many school administrators.Original Publication Date: 14 May 2017
This story is in True’s book collections, in Volume 23.
This story is in True’s book collections, in Volume 23.
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