Greg Poole, who has been district superintendent since 2006, said the policy is legal and teaches students to conform as a sacrifice benefitting everyone.

“When you are asked to conform ... and give up something for the betterment of the whole, there is a psychological benefit,” Poole said. “We need more teaching (of) sacrifice.”

Fuck right off with that. Your appearance (so long as it’s not designed specifically to distract) is yours. We have minimal ways of expressing ourselves and that is one of them.

His hair looks awesome and non distracting. Pink and blue hair in fifth grade could be distracting, but lots of things are distracting in school. Teachers should be trained to deal with this situation.

George's hairstyle looks like it took a lot of work. I imagine it makes it especially frustrating to be told the haircut is wrong.

worth noting: it's been a trend in the past few years for Democratic-run state legislatures (take for example New York) to introduce anti-discrimination laws for hair--and stories like this are basically why. certain kinds of reactionaries (usually in schooling) have increasingly been using hair as a stand-in for skin tone in basically discriminating against people.

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Seems like clear cut discrimination, I hope they're able to fight this. The rules say "no hair below the eyebrows" and he's pretty clearly not breaking that rule.