MARSHALL (AP) – An East Texas educator has been reprimanded for using a permanent marker to color in the shaved lines of a boy’s haircut. The superintendent of the Marshall Independent School District has apologized over the incident involving 12-year-old Sheldon Williams. Bruce Gearing says an assistant principal has been reprimanded. Williams was sent to the principal’s office Monday for allegedly violating a school dress code ban on designs shaved into the hair. The boy’s stepmother has filed a grievance. Philleniea Williams says she was shocked that educators thought the haircut was gang related. She says her stepson is not involved with gangs and now has a new haircut with no shaved lines. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
MARSHALL (AP) – An East Texas educator has been reprimanded for using a permanent marker to color in the shaved lines of a boy’s haircut. The superintendent of the Marshall Independent School District has apologized over the incident involving 12-year-old Sheldon Williams. Bruce Gearing says an assistant principal has been reprimanded. Williams was sent to … Continue reading Educator Reprimanded in Hair Dispute<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-29 00:01:31","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=133339"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133617,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133339\/revisions\/133617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=133339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=133339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=133339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}