PEARLAND, Texas -- An administrator at a Texas middle school is on leave after he allegedly used a marker to color in a student's haircut design that didn't meet the dress code.
The Berry Miller Junior High School student, Juelz Trice, told KTRK he was given two choices: accept an in-school suspension or allow the administrator to "color it in."
The seventh-grader's parents say they are upset that the school didn't notify them, and that they only found out when their son got off the bus and told them what happened. His father, Dante Trice, also told the station he worries about the chemicals in the ink that went into his son's pores where the line, in the shape of an M, had been freshly shaved.
"Punishing students for their style of hair is a discriminatory practice," his mother told KPRC in an email. "The first paragraph of the district press release is meant to blame (her son) instead of immediately taking responsibility for the actions of the (assistant principal)."
Pearland Independent School District officials issued the following statement Wednesday: