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A 12-year-old girl will be expelled from a Florida school
unless she gets her hair under control, school officials have told her. Vanessa
VanDyke, an honors student and violinist at the Faith Christian Academy in
Orlando, tells WKMG that administrators have given her one week to decide
whether to cut and shape her hair or leave the school, which she has attended
since the third grade.
But WKMG reports that the school’s handbook includes a
section on hair that says it “must be a natural color and must not be a
distraction,” stating examples that include mohawks, shaved designs and rat
tails. However, notes Kent, “A distraction to one person is not a distraction
to another. You can have a kid come in with pimples on his face. Are you going
to call that a distraction?"
2 comments:
I really don't feel they need to take this this far, this is her natural hair and why can she wear it out, any other race has the opportunity to wear their hair out.. The difference is our natural hair isn't straight, that's the only difference, that's not fear.
Student Suspended For Wearing Natural Hair Style
The tragedy is who made someone the hair authority? No one should have the right to say what is acceptable for another ethnicities hair. The only way to stop that is to ask the person who is complaining to come over every morning and style the hair and I promise they will fall madly in love with OUR NATURAL HAIR!!! Diversity includes hair!! Love all hair no matter color or style especially if it is natural. One question? How is it we fight for living in a green world with green items and yet admonish people for NATURAL HAIR?
By Charmin Edwards
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