The San Antonio Express-News (4/30, LaCoste-Caputo) reports that a five-year-old at Walzem Elementary School "was suspended this week because of a swirl design cut into his closely cropped hair." Principal Laura Huggins "noticed the design" as kindergartner Tyran Miller "was getting out of his mom's car Monday morning." The school gave Tyran's mother "the option of shaving [the child's] head or keeping him home until his hair grew out. If she sent him to school, she was told, he'd be in in-school suspension until the symbol was gone." The Express News notes that the North East Independent School District's policy does not "specifically address hairstyles for elementary students other than to say parents are strongly urged to enforce moderate hairstyles and high standards of dress." But Huggins said that Walzam administrators have "been cracking down" on "unusual hairstyles."
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