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Houston Texans wide receiver DeAndre Hopkins has voiced his support for a Texas teenager whose high school is forcing him to cut his dreadlocks in order to being allowed to walk at his graduation ceremony.
Hopkins tweeted a message to Deandre Arnold:
Per KPRC in Houston, Arnold's mother, Sandy, said her son has always complied with the Barbers Hill High School dress code of having hair "off the shoulders above the earlobes and out of the eyes."
Sandy said after the school's Christmas break, the district changed the policy.
"They say that even (when) my hair is up, if it were to be down, it would be not in compliance with the dress code," Deandre told KPRC.