Well this is a huge issue, and totally not acceptable! "The letter details changes to the dress code for the upcoming school year and includes the line: Afro-puffs and small twisted braids, with our [sic] without rubberbands, are NOT permitted. It’s unclear what the administration means by small twisted braids, but if they are referring to box braids they are banning a protective style that black girls have worn for generations. Afro-puffs are essentially the black version of the ponytail (when pulled back our hair puffs out instead of laying down), and yet the rules do not have a ban on ponytails for students of other ethnicities." Umm....so what? Black girls at the school need to chemically process their hair in order to fit some mold of what that school find acceptable? Give me a break! I am also not a fan of the no mohawk rule, but the no braids or puffs is what is really grinding me because without braids, or puffs that black hair style has to be chemically altered to do anything else, and that is not right to make that part of the dress code--It is totally shaming to black women to make these children conform to a white hair style. I wish I could come up with something better to say, but honestly I am sitting over here with my mouth on the floor. -Jackie
Posted on: Sat, 22 Jun 2013 03:28:39 +0000