Amazingly, this will disproportionately affect black kids. Different hair types exist, not everyone has hair designed for perfectly manicured hollywood hairstyles.
Stay willfully ignorant.
Tulsa school sends girl home over hair.
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Amazingly, this will disproportionately affect black kids. Different hair types exist, not everyone has hair designed for perfectly manicured hollywood hairstyles.
Stay willfully ignorant.
encephalon
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"Rules are rules" isn't an appropriate answer to rules that are clearly complete bullshit that target black kids in particular. Her hair was perfectly fine and she looked adorable.
Dreads by the army definition. Which are Marley-style and fall under 'faddish'.
Thankfully, people realize that there are more to dreads than the ones that go under a beanie OR thankfully many can't tell the difference between dreads and braids anyways.
Angelus Errare
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Sorry, I meant to say decent schools.
Crumpet Trumpet
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How dare we make this inherently racial subject into a race thing.
I mean. Are you serious?
Devolution
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Don't lump us all together.
stufte
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Ugh. I don't have the energy tonight to argue with every one of you over whether this was stupidity or racism. I think the schools rules are stupid, but it's probably not racist.
Let the outrage flow, I'm checking out.
Massive Duck. C.M.
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It says she went there last year without incident; did they revise the dress code after she enrolled? If not, what was the problem? She's a straight A student.
Way to sacrifice intelligence for a bullshit policy.
Way to sacrifice intelligence for a bullshit policy.
You don't know much about natural black hair do you?
You don't have to slap a black baby on an airplane for it to be racist.
This is coming from the same state that's trying to repeal affirmative action so some good old 'its not that racist, it only happens to effect black people more than anyone else' racism is entirely within the realm of reasonable expectation.
You can make judgments that are not consciously racist but affect minorities in a negative fashion.
Us minorities call that "racist". This school rule is an example of that.
grap3fruitman
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I guess "No Coloreds" was too obvious.
Byakuya769
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Straight from the school of "if no one was called nigger" it's not racist. If the natural state of black hair is not presentable, that is implicitly a racist judgment of the character and quality of what is proper.
SteveWinwood
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Why would you think that?
Massive Duck. C.M.
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A better class of teacher and administrator to teach a higher level student.
Did you want something?
Never mind, I was thinking of magnet schools. Still, charter schools being privately run should also allow more freedom from arbitrary bullshit, at least in theory.
OldKentuckyShark
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I wish schools would stop acting like every single student has a severe case of ADD. Kids who lose all concentration because someone has a SLIGHTLY unusual hair style probably shouldn't be in regular classes anyway.
MorisUkunRasik
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A couple more additions to their 'faddish hairstyles' list and black girls are gonna have to show up bald to go to that school.
Randolph Freelander
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The committee hears a motion to label the school policy insensitive and ethnocentric. Is there a second.
Are you high? Do you have any idea what our hair does when it grows out naturally? There is a very clear difference..... Its not a fad or a style.
SteveWinwood
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Damn idiots at this school, people following the code to the letter without applying a bit of brain power to realize this girl's hair does nothing to take away from the 'serious' atmosphere nor prevents the children from learning. Let the girl worry about ignorant shits judging her hair when she grows up, for now you foster the kid so that she continues to excel as she has thus far and instill some confidence in the way she naturally looks.
MorisUkunRasik
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Massive Duck. C.M.
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Whatever your beef is with charter schools, I have nothing to do with it.
Crumpet Trumpet
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It's stupidity and racism. Impact is more important than intent when discussing racism (as much as people like turning these conversations into therapy sessions for racists to vent their tears and play the victim)-- although in this case the intent itself is so obviously problematic that it would take someone being willfully obtuse to not realize it.
SteveWinwood
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"because of a disagreement that left her in tears"
He made the right call. I'm not letting my kid go through that kind of shit in 2013. She can go get straight A's somewhere else.
The Cowboy
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In my school in the UK, someone got suspending for showing up to school with a shaved head - they considered (unless medical) a shaved head as unacceptable.
Devolution
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Nice selective reading.
MorisUkunRasik
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That's silly, what was the kid to do until their hair grew to acceptable length?
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Massive Duck. C.M.
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Do you actually have anything to say?
SteveWinwood
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i mean there is a reason we took this land from you
rykomatsu
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Most dreadlocks I've been around smell like ass.
The Cowboy
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He was suspended until it grew to what they deemed acceptable. He wasn't a great pupil (not as in not smart, as in was a bit of an ass) and I'm pretty sure he didn't care and as such he (nor his family) bothered to contact the education board to complain.
victreeb3l
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How ignorant are you really?
Until they say being bald is unacceptable and not part of the dress code.
Thats actually kind of sad. =(
ryutaro's mama
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You have no fucking idea what you are even talking about.
Megidolaon
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Really dumb rule, and the person at the school who was giving her a hard time was obviously on a power trip over a little girl. Shameful. There was nothing distracting about her hair in the least.
Reminds me of when I was in 8th grade. I went to a Catholic school and although me or my mom didn't know it at the time, coloring your hair was against the rules. Well, my mom let me get highlights at the salon and it looked really nice(I'm a girl). I got in huge trouble for it, didn't get sent home, but got detention and stuff, but they didn't mess with me too much, as I blatantly said I didn't care about the rule and it was dumb. But the next week like 3 more girls showed up to school with highlights, and after that the school hated me. Oh well. =)
Reminds me of when I was in 8th grade. I went to a Catholic school and although me or my mom didn't know it at the time, coloring your hair was against the rules. Well, my mom let me get highlights at the salon and it looked really nice(I'm a girl). I got in huge trouble for it, didn't get sent home, but got detention and stuff, but they didn't mess with me too much, as I blatantly said I didn't care about the rule and it was dumb. But the next week like 3 more girls showed up to school with highlights, and after that the school hated me. Oh well. =)
You shouldn't even bother with it. Almost every thread about race, you can guarantee he'll post about how it's not about race.
Wolf Dawgz
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Well seems there's enough support for afros/dreads. Mohawks definitely aren't fads and have been used around the world for thousands of years. Clearly this is a bigoted policy.
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