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Heidi Stevens: Dwyane Wade and Gabrielle Union double down on love, another Texas high school doubles down on hair rules: A study in contrasts

How's this for a study in adulting contrasts? (Do people still say adulting?)

In Poth, Texas, high school student Newt Johnson, 16, was threatened with suspension if he didn't cut his hair, which violated the student handbook by extending "beyond the ear opening on the sides (and) beyond the top of a dress shirt collar in the back."

Newt was growing his hair long to make a wig for his 11-year-old

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