This year has been excruciating and stressful. It has infringed on his self-identity, on his freedom of expression. Before school let out, I attended my campus involvement committee, to ask again for code change, to start the process again. Two members on the committee were adamant and against it and their reasons why, it’s a shaggy and disrespectful look, and the other teacher said boys don’t learn with long hair. Asked how, and her response was they just don’t. so of course that did not go well and proposal stopped there. As you all know, Habib was not allowed in the yearbook if his hair was out of code. So on picture retakes, his teacher sends him to get his photo taken. Photo proof comes back and he came home and told me he doesn’t like them, and that person in the photo is not him. Emailed the Principal and requested the photo not be published; he said okay. Mid May yearbooks are sent home, students with no photo, get the box where it says no photo and name underneath (google no photo in yearbook for example); Habib was not included with his classmates. He was completely excluded. Came home upset and asking why the school hates him only, how he doesn’t even exist to them, and spoke about suicide. After closer looking at the yearbook about 10 other boys with “long hair” clearly in code violation had their photos taken and published. Two of them being staff member’s sons. Our football team and baseball team have out of code hair, but were never addressed, got to play sports, have their photos taken, walk the halls and attend class with no consequences or punished like my son. Went to the board meeting last Monday and presented this last atrocity, how my son was told that if he was not in code during UIL ceremony that he would not be allowed to walk the stage, while high school graduates were clearing and evidently OUT OF CODE, hair past shoulders and past eyebrows were allowed to walk the stage. Told them that this code is flawed and is affecting many lives. My son had taken a toll, 30-40 bobby pins daily in his head for 10 hours is too much. I, as a woman can barely handle that. And I pray that they change it for next year. I also asked why my son was the only student targeted all year. Their response came in yesterday claiming that the principal and our librarian (person in charge of the yearbook) took my request of not to publish photo as a take my son out of the yearbook. And apologized for the misunderstanding. How can a librarian misread what I said, I am positive it was read several times. I read the email between the principal and I and no way that can be misunderstood or taken as for what they claim. For the other boys that were photographed and published, that her, the superintendent and 5 other District Central Office staff members are going to go over the year book and address the individual situations. What can they do, seriously??? Those boys were able to walk the halls, never spend a day in ISS, were not targeted as my son was. And the request for change, denied again, that the handbook was reviewed by district and school administration and the school board has already approved the handbook for the 2018-2019 year and NO CHANGES WERE MADE! In summary, my son all year was a continuous target by campus administration and district. They pick and choose who to apply their code on. As for why my son was targeted, they ignored to answer, just like they refuse to answer how are boys with long hair a hygiene issue, distractive, and a safety hazard.