一 | After serving more than a month of in-school suspension over his dreadlocks, a Black student in Texas was told he will be removed from his high school and sent to a disciplinary alternative education program on Thursday.Darryl George, 18, is a junior at Barbers Hill High School in Mont Belvieu and has been suspended since Aug. 31. He will be sent to EPIC, an alternative school program, from Oct. 12 through Nov. 29 for “failure to comply” with multiple campus and classroom regulations, the principal said in a Wednesday letter provided to The Associated Press by the family.Principal Lance Murphy wrote that George has repeatedly violated the district's “previously communicated standards of student conduct." The letter also says that George will be allowed to return to regular classroom instruction on Nov. 30 but will not be allowed to return to his high school's campus until then unless he's there to discuss his conduct with school administrators.Barbers Hill Independent School District prohibits male students from having hair extending below the eyebrows, ear lobes or top of a T-shirt collar, according to the student handbook. Additionally, hair on all students must be clean, well-groomed, geometrical and not an unnatural color or variation. The school does not require uniforms.George's mother, Darresha George, and the family's attorney deny the teenager's hairstyle violates the dress code. The family last month filed a formal complaint with the Texas Education Agency and a federal civil rights lawsuit against the state’s governor and attorney general, alleging they failed to enforce a new law outlawing discrimination based on hairstyles. The family alleges George's suspension and subsequent discipline violate the state’s CROWN Act, which took effect Sept. 1. The law, an acronym for “Create a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair,” is intended to prohibit race-based hair discrimination and bars employers and schools from penalizing people because of hair texture or protective hairstyles including Afros, braids, dreadlocks, twists or Bantu knots. A federal version passed in the U.S. House last year, but was not successful in the Senate.The school district also filed a lawsuit in state district court asking a judge to clarify whether its dress code restrictions limiting student hair length for boys violates the CROWN Act. The lawsuit was filed in Chambers County, east of Houston.George’s school previously clashed with two other Black male students over the dress code. Barbers Hill officials told cousins De’Andre Arnold and Kaden Bradford they had to cut their dreadlocks in 2020. Their families sued the district in May 2020, and a federal judge later ruled the district’s hair policy was discriminatory. Their pending case helped spur Texas lawmakers to approve the state’s CROWN Act. Both students withdrew from the school, with Bradford returning after the judge’s ruling. ___AP journalist Juan Lozano contributed to this report from Houston.___The Associated Press education team receives support from the Carnegie Corporation of New York. The AP is solely responsible for all content.。 按：被殖民、被屠杀、被抛弃，然后到独立、富强，并成功跻身发达国家行列，新加坡的发展史可堪称一部在混沌中重生的涅槃史，国民从迷茫自身归属到认可新加坡人的身份，也经历了重重波折。然而，正是这样的波折，造就了新加坡不同于其他国家的强大精神力和凝聚力，成就了新加坡的“逆袭”传奇。
二 | 恰逢新加坡58周年国庆，以此文致敬始终奋勇向前的“新加坡人”。01.归属的混沌 不知前途的新加坡1965年，新加坡总理李光耀哭了，他担心这个从马来西亚独立出来的新生国家是否能够生存。那时候的新加坡，几乎没有自然资源、淡水缺乏、经济不发达，夹在马来族为主的伊斯兰国家马来西亚和以穆斯林为主的印尼之间。
三 | 这个狭小的岛国，内外均危机重重，生存艰难。新加坡的未来在哪里？新加坡国民的归属在哪里？在英语、汉语、马来语、泰米尔语混杂的狭小岛屿，新加坡的未来又在哪里？所有的问题，在当时甚至很长一段时间里，都没有答案，这个新生国家内忧外患重重，国民混沌迷茫。02.精神的混沌 不知“我是谁”的国民与国情相照应的，是国民精神的混沌。生活在同一片区域同一个国度的国民，却没有“我是谁”的共同认知，或漠然地无视一切精神存在，或独立地强调自我的生存。
四 | 精神的混沌，使新加坡的国民，没有国家的归属感，没有国民的凝聚力，国家发展步步维艰。
五 | 03.混沌中重生 意识觉醒的新加坡如何让新加坡这个各种族人群混居、各语言混杂的新兴国家的国民在心理上认同一个国家、一个新加坡呢？痛定思痛之后，执政党提出了“共同价值观”，发布了《共同价值观白皮书》。1988年开始的“国民意识周”主题活动、1990年学生社区服务计划、推行租屋混居政策、扶持跨种族跨帮派的社团等，共同发力，提高国民的归属感，让新加坡这个小岛国的国家凝聚力和战斗力迅速提升。
六 | “我是新加坡人”的意识不断提升，集体主义思想不断渗透，最终凝聚成一股强大的力量，助力着新加坡的发展速度不断加快。04.精神的崛起 独具特色的新加坡从四面野草丛生、蚊蝇遍地，发展到“美丽的花园城市”；从贫瘠狭小的岛蜕变到 “亚洲四小龙”之一。新加坡以“国民共同价值观”为基础，形成了独具特色的新加坡精神。这种精神，如一支指挥棒，指引着新加坡人拧成一股绳，不屈不挠、奋勇向前、永不言弃。“黑暗尽处有曙光”。困境中不折不挠，逆流中凝聚团结，新加坡这个狭小的岛国，一次次让世界“刮目想看”，新加坡国民，在共同价值观的精神支柱下，在儒家精神的浸润下，持续散发着耀眼的光芒。
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