Today on the Texas House Floor ammendment No. 64 to HB 3 ( relating to public school accountability, curriculum, and promotion requirements) was passed, amongst many others, regarding male hair length in all public state funded high schools. According to this amendment, also known as "Mason's Measure", the board of trustee's of any given Texas school distict may not place any length limit's on male attendants hair so long as they meet the following requirements : the student has performed satisfactory on assessment instruments administered in the previous and concurrent school years, have not been subject to disciplinary action up to a certain code, meet the grade criteria for the given school's honor roll, and have no un-excused absences. Whoa! Here that teenage highschool guys? If your not on the honor roll, have gotten into trouble past a certain set 'code', or do not say pass your TAKS testing, your high school has the legislative right to restrict the length of your hair! Now this is nothing new, for the past few years many districts have had a male hair length policy for all males in attendance. This 'Mason's Measure' was passed as ammendment mostly to secure the rights of smart male students opposed to the state's stereotypical policies regarding long hair students, who reportedly perform poorer in school by having long hair. But those infact who have done well in school and choose to have long hair but are not allowed, have now found justice in the legislature. When the amendment was passed it was a humurous moment when the Speaker of the Floor smiled, raising up a t- shirt with a large imprint of the long haired Savior himself, Jesus Christ.
The actual ammendment, documented by the House Clerk who reports the Daily Texas House of Representatives Journal, can be read on page 78 of 126 at the following link:
http://www.journals.house.state.tx.us/hjrnl/81r/pdf/81RDAY59FINAL.PDF
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