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.

[spathiphyllum]

The church? They could collect all the money they saved from paying taxes and used them for the court case.

[spathiphyllum]

Well many Rastafarians believe that their dread locks resemble their spirit.

[ToraToraTora]

yeah and if my grandmother had wheels she'd be a wagon, still nowt to do with the "deity".

[ichkeria]

Wrong I would say. Dreadlocks are a fundamental part of the Rastafarian religion. I’d hope our C of E school would not try to enforce such a rule

[spathiphyllum]

Neither is Christianity though.. is it?

I think tafari was more a representative.. He simply started the movement, he wasn't a part of it.

He set a standard for people to take form and they made it their own.

They simply believe the're suppressed by babylon and if they went and tried to smoke up in Trafalgar square they'd be proved correct.

[spathiphyllum]

A true rasta would be wanting to move to the promise land anyhow.. No a catholic school owned by the church of england

[Jordyboy9]

Tora Tora Tora ,so you are not so clever after all.
It if my granny had balls
She would be my uncle(joke)I’ll get my coat

[margarettom]

In the past, the only children allowed to attend CofE schools, were known members of the CofE. Similarly, the only children who attended Catholic schools were RC's. This was the point of these schools. Everyone else went to non-denominational schools. So problems like this would not have arisen. When did this change I wonder?

[spathiphyllum]

TTT is correct in what he is saying Jordy, however what he is missing is peoples ability to make something their own. What tafari represented and did does not correlate across the religion. They are his followers, not him

[ToraToraTora]

dreadlocks are African in origin, primarily from the Masai of Kenya. Jamaicans started sporting them as a protest shortly after Slavery was abolished, oddly enough quite a bit before Tafari himself who never actually had them at all.

[ToraToraTora]

the point is that the whole premise of this post is flawed. dreadlocks are not Rastafarian in origin.

[Jordyboy9]

Personally I think that all schools should be non-
denominational but then what do I know?

[spathiphyllum]

Is Rastafarianism not Ethiopian? Is the promise land not Africa?

[ToraToraTora]

here's a masai:
https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1903/3113/files/masai_man_large.jpg?v=1506510537

[spathiphyllum]

TTT, SP flawed the post and the case with the logical maths of the situation..

The boy had dreads before he went school.. They can't kick him out for still having them (or them getting longer)

[spathiphyllum]

He looks very ethiopian.. Not very Jamaican

[ToraToraTora]

"TTT, SP flawed the post and the case with the logical maths of the situation.." - "Flawed" or "Floored" - PMSL - what maths? I'm using history here!

"The boy had dreads before he went school.. They can't kick him out for still having them (or them getting longer) " - yes but dreads are nothing to do with Rastafarianism and as I said above i doubt the lad even knows about Rastafarianism. What we have here is a nice enough lad being used by his attention seeking mum and assisted by our own ignorant right on brigade.

[ToraToraTora]

have you noticed how SP and others above have left you with me getting a kicking?

[Jordyboy9]

I tried to help TTT and join in but it was all over my head

[ToraToraTora]

no help needed Jordy, spath's well capable;e of digging himself a hole.