Student Suspended for Sporting Rockets Do

Angel Garza, a twelve-year old student at Hamilton Middle School in the Heights, was suspended from school this week for sporting the Houston Rockets trademark “R” in his hair.

Hamilton’s dress code policy forbids “hair designs.” The ambiguous policy does, however, allow “Any hairstyle that is neat and clean.” Although the school’s dress code policy states violation warrants in-school suspension, he was still sent home.

Honestly, “Any hairstyle that is neat and clean…” Do we live in the 1950s in Mayfield, Ohio? Did June Cleaver pen the Hamilton Middle school dress code? And when did showing some spirit for your hometown team become taboo? Why not ban wearing sports jerseys too?

HISD, don’t you think you bigger fish to fry than hair designs? How’s that 64% high-school completion rate working out for you?