Was This Church Of England School Right To Ban Rastafarian Dreadlocks?

[anotheoldgit]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6161817/Rastafarian-boy-12-wins-discrimination-case-dreadlocks-ban.html

Once more it seems that we have been forced to back down from our rules in English dress code, so as to fit in with other cultures.

[sp1814]

What people need to understand is that this story happened in 2018,not 1958.

The parents of this child have every right to speak up I find they want, because the alternative is to keep quiet and organise themselves into free schools...and the moment they do, there will be complaints that “they aren’t integrating”,

The ‘we’ in the question is misleading...it assumes that Britain is owned by one group. It may have been in 1958, but it is not now. As far as we are concerned, as long as people are contributing to the economy, they should have a voice.

[Mamyalynne]

It's just a pity this reasonable compromise (tied back and off the collar) couldn't have been reached in a more straightforward fashion.

[Spicerack]

Nice to see you back, sp. People have been 'worried' about you.
I vaguely remember 'skinhead' haircuts being banned in my school. I had one and got expelled but I'm not saying the two things were connected.

[youngmafbog]

So schools can't make rules then SP - because it is 2018?

And still I have seen no one tell me what they think wold happen if he went to a Muslim school and tried to impose his religion on them.

Seems the only ones who have to give way to all and sundry are Christians. (And no I am not one).

[sp1814]

Thank you spathiphyllum.

Regarding school rules....the maths are wrong. You can see it almost immediately.

[youngmafbog]

Spice, did you also have 18 hole DM's and jeans 12" from the ground?

[AuntLydia]

The young man looks very smart from the front but those dreadlocks look filthy from the back. They can't be healthy surely, they look full of dandruff. I feel sorry for the child, I hope he hasn't been made to have these dreadlocks.

[sp1814]

Okay...here’s where the maths don’t make sense, and I assume because of this, the school backed down.

The boy is 12.

He locks are (at a guess), six years old. Therefore he would have had them at both induction and at the interview.

These two events would have happpened within the past year or so. Therefore if the ‘rule’ were I’m place, he would’ve have made it past those stages.

The maths don’t make sense.

[Mamyalynne]

No idea what was said, however this reply from Spath makes sense.

//to be fair to the remover.. I think what i said was objectionable. That then got repeated//

[jackthehat]

ymb - I think most people are keeping this thread to the issue of the boys hair and the school rules in place.

Hypothetical, "what if it had been.....?" questions (especially when trying to intoduce diversionary tactics regarding muslims) only result in us ending up in the usual conversational cul-de-sac with exactly the same contibutors making exactly the same points as we have seen countless times before.

[sp1814]

Auntlydia

Dandruff is a medically-recognised scalp condition which has nothing to do with hair length. It can occur on closely cropped hair. It’s ally’s do with skin, rather than hair.

[Spicerack]

Lol. I destroyed all the photos, ymb.

[youngmafbog]

"I think most people are keeping this thread to the issue of the boys hair and the school rules in place. "

Yes, so apply the same principle across the board. Or dont you like the answer?

And I am not most people.

[woofgang]

If he had been a girl and wanted to have long hair then there would have been no discussion provided that the hair was kept clean and tied back for safety.

[youngmafbog]

haha, probably best Spice.

[jackthehat]

///Yes, so apply the same principle across the board. Or dont you like the answer?///

Once more in English?

///And I am not most people///.

You most certainly aren't, ymb......on that we are in agreement.

[sp1814]

This is the ‘closely cropped’ hair:

https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/boy-detention-peaky-blinders-haircut-13919302

What a 12 year old is doin* watching Peaky Blinders is perhaps a question for another time.

[mccfluff]

why is this a thing? The kid has dreads, so what.
the only thing i take from the OP is that its a CofE school - isn't it time religion and schools were separated - apart from lessons learning about made up deities of various flavours.

[anotheoldgit]

sp1814

Let me first welcome you back, you have been missed and I have asked about you, you also missed my annual Notting Hill Carnival rant, now let's get down to business, you put,

/// The parents of this child have every right to speak up I find they want, because the alternative is to keep quiet and organise themselves into free schools...and the moment they do, there will be complaints that “they aren’t integrating”, ///

But that is the whole point, they are not integrating, are they?

If they were they would be prepared to adhere to their choice of school's, dress code.