A six-year-old boy in Florida missed his first day of school because administrators at the private Christian school he was enrolled at said he could not attend class until he cut his dreadlocks.
Clinton Stanley Sr, the boy’s outraged father, took to Facebook
this week saying that the staff at A Book’s Christian Academy in Apopka
told him that his son’s hairstyle violated school policy.
Stanley captured the exchange with school officials in a Facebook Live video.
‘My son just got told that he cannot attend the school with his hair,’ Stanley says.
As the father films, six-year-old Clinton dressed in the school’s uniform and wearing a bookbag, stands outside the door.
Stanley said instead of
cutting his son’s hair – which Clinton wanted in dreadlocks – he
enrolled the little boy in a public school. Clinton started at Lovell
Elementary School on Tuesday.
PLEASE help me to understand how this child’s hair has ANY bearing on his right to a free and appropriate education? What did this child just learn?
He learned prejudice, injustice, hatred, judgment from the educators. But I hope he learned positiveness, perseverance, love and that even
though life have stumbling blocks there’s always a way around them from
his father!
The-Lounge 