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alp227 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-17-11 01:20 PM
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(UK) School's refusal to let boy wear cornrow braids is ruled racial discrimination
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Edited on Fri Jun-17-11 01:22 PM by alp227

A school's anti-gang ban on unconventional hairstyles has resulted in "unlawful, indirect racial discrimination which is not justified", the high court has ruled.

The test case decision is a victory for the family of African-Caribbean teenager "G", who wears his hair in cornrow braids as part of a family tradition.

G, who cannot be named, and his mother challenged a refusal by St Gregory's Catholic Science College in Kenton, Harrow, north London, to let G through the school gates with his braids in September 2009, when he was 11.

Mr Justice Collins, sitting in London, ruled that the hair policy was not unlawful in itself, "but if it is applied without any possibility of exception, such as G, then it is unlawful".

Full: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/jun/17/school-ban-cornrow-braids-discrimination

Do you agree with this court decision? Is this hairstyle a legitimate cultural element or only a gang hairstyle? On the other hand, this school appears to be a private religious one that can establish a uniform dress/grooming code, and does the school's right to create such rules override a student's individual right?
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