Related, laws being passed to protect people from being discriminated against on the basis of their hair.
https://apnews.com/article/hairstyle-texture-discrimination-race-and-ethnicity-d6fd44b0226d4cd2d089953972377654
Honestly just fuck everything about sumptuary laws.
Why can a high school dictate what hair styles their students can wear? What an incredibly weird and arbitrary rule.
Was Foucault right all along?
This is pretty standard in America tbh
Yeah, oppressive dress codes are the norm. It mostly targets girls and minorities - Girls get harassed for basically everything, especially length of skirts, makeup, jewelry, visible bra straps (RAEG), while minorities get harassed for anything that distinguishes them from whites. It's not universal by any means, there are school districts that are chill, but there are also lots that are absolute shitheads.
That's the issue with the fragmented authoritarianism that comes with American style federalism. Combined with how schools are run pseudo-democratically with a sizable and energized fascist voter base and even your cool, chill school districts can suddenly become extremely reactionary! Fun!
I'm not american so I had no idea this was a thing. It sounds completely absurd to me, what a strange country
The hair style aspect does scream private school to me since those were the only schools I remember having rules about hair. We had dress codes for public school but nothing ever about hair. But I wasn't in the south so I have no clue what they get up to there
General dress codes I can understand to some extent. You can at least change out of that when you get home, but you can't grow out your hair every afternoon.