Parents of an Ohio 6-year-old were told that their son’s locks, a natural hairstyle for Black people, were not allowed at the school.
The 6-year-old has dreadlocks. When his hair is wet and he pulls on it, it comes down to about his eyes.
“[Asten] looks in the mirror every single day and tells me how long his hair has grown,” Christina Johnson said.Officials at his school want the opposite. Zion Temple Christian Academy in Cincinnati, Ohio told the Johnsons that locks, a natural hairstyle for Black people, are not allowed at the school, Christina Johnson said, even though Asten was enrolled and wore the style last year.
Their parents had to decide: comply with the school’s order or look elsewhere. They chose the latter.“What’s disheartening about Zion Temple is it’s in the middle of a Black community, and it’s a predominantly Black school,” Christina Johnson said. “How can you not accept your own people?”An amendment to Cincinnati's anti-bias law,bans discrimination based on natural hair. But the law exempts religious groups.
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