"A 7-year-old girl named Tiana Parker was recently sent home from Deborah Brown Community School, the charter school she attends in Tulsa, Oklahoma, for failing to comply with school policy. Her violation? Tiana, who is African American, has dreadlocks and school rules state that “hairstyles such as dreadlocks, afros, mohawks, and other faddish styles are unacceptable.” Wait, wait, wait. Faddish? Seriously? Curious how two of the three hairstyles explicitly banned by the school happen to be two of the ways black women can wear their hair without processing it." read more here: jezebel/little-girl-sent-home-from-school-because-of-faddish-1253507062
Posted on: Wed, 04 Sep 2013 23:46:23 +0000
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