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.

[andy-hughes]

AuntLydia - // It's a pity Andy you can't use your effusive replies to answer my two posts that refer to you describing people who just don't agree with the Court's decision on this matter as covert racists and small minded people who can't/don't want change. //

I made no reference to anyone not agreeing with the court's deicison being a covert racist and / or small-minded, so I am not especially keen in 'answering' something I didn't actually say.

[-Talbot-]

You would send one child home and let another child stay even though both had the same haircut.

You clearly believe in discrimination, andy.


No amount of typing will change that fact.

[-Talbot-]

discrimination
the unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people

[andy-hughes]

Talbot - // You would send one child home and let another child stay even though both had the same haircut.

You clearly believe in discrimination, andy.


No amount of typing will change that fact. //

And you clearly believe that taking away the context of a situation will proof your untrue observation, and no amount of typing will change your perception - it is absolutely not a fact.

My posts on this thread, and my history on this site amply prove that I do not believe in discrimination, and your continual insistence that I do is not going to make it a fact - merely your opinion, which is invalid.

[andy-hughes]

Talbot - // discrimination
the unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people //

The instance which has started this debate concerns exactly that - the school's action was unjust and prejudicial treatment of different categories of people.

The entire point of the court case was that the school enforced its rule against 'fashion' haircuts against a pupil who is not wearing his hair the way it is for fashion reasons - that is where the predjudice comes in.

My view is that if a pupil is wearing a style that is against school rules, purely for fashion reasons, that contravenes the school's rule, and the pupil's parents should be asked to change the style. If, as in this case, the pupil is wearing the style for valid religious reasons, then the style should stay.

I agree with the court's decision, based on discrimination legislation.

You can please yourself what you think, except to call me a believer in discrimination - to which I take strong exception.

[-Talbot-]

The fact is you believe in discrimination...it's here on these very pages.

[andy-hughes]

Talbot - // The fact is you believe in discrimination...it's here on these very pages. //

We are going round in circles, I suggest we stop now, before the thread is derailed and deleted.