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- <text id=89TT2508>
- <title>
- Sep. 25, 1989: American Notes:Texas
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- Sep. 25, 1989 Boardwalk Of Broken Dreams
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- NATION, Page 29
- American Notes
- TEXAS
- A Hairy Legal Issue
- </hdr><body>
- <p> Once was bad enough, so when Houston school authorities
- this fall banned his two teenage sons from classes because of
- their long hair for the second time, Wilburn Wilkinson, 48,
- decided to go to court. The divorced electronics technician sued
- the Spring Branch (Texas) Independent School District, charging
- that Northbrook High School is discriminating against his sons
- Brian, 17, and Travis, 15, by enforcing a dress and appearance
- code that controls male -- but not female -- hair length.
- </p>
- <p> Since last October the boys have been exiled from class
- because the school prohibits male hair below the shoulders.
- Theirs reaches the middle of their backs. Last year short-haired
- Wilkinson tutored them at home, but was later fined $25 for
- violating the compulsory school-attendance law. He has hired a
- lawyer, Darrell McAlexander, with shoulder-length hair and a
- drooping Fu Manchu mustache.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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