Beaumont – the gateway to East Texas and big haired wimmen.

Beaumont big hair

So, it was odd when after more than a decade, the Adult Cosmetology class offered through Beaumont Independent School District’s Taylor Career and Technology Center fired the teacher and  is closing.

The reason, you ask?

Principal Thomas Amons would rather close the program than admit a man Amons thought was gay after a brief encounter with the prospective student on the first day of class Sept 10.

The teacher, Ms. Clark, says she saw this coming —

“Earlier this year, I learned he had a problem with gay guys while we were at the hair show in April.” Clark said at the hair show, Amons told her that he never wanted to see “flamboyantly gay guys” in the BISD program like the men enrolled at other programs competing in the event.

So, when 22 year old Kwmane Gray attempted to enter the program, Principal Amons, a deacon at Antioch Missionary Baptist Church where they apparently teach laying on of the gay, decided that he smelled – yikes! – gay and ordered Teacher Clark to remove Kwmane from the program.   She refused.

Principal Amons, who has not read a newspaper or watched Will and Grace in twenty years, closed the program down that very day.

Everybody is throwing a walled eyed snot nosed hissy fit, including fellow students, Kwmane’s mother, and every woman in Beaumont who is tired of bad hairdressers.

Three cheers to Teacher Clark, who is herself a pastor of a Groves church and owner of a salon in Beaumont.  She said that she is heartbroken at the thought of students not being able to utilize the much-needed program any longer, but that she had “to stand up for what’s right.”

Now here’s the question I have.  Are you telling me that Beaumont has had a cosmetology program for a decade and this is the first gay student they’ve ever had?

Well, that explains all that horrible hair in east Texas, now doesn’t it?

Thanks to Texas Ellen for the heads up.