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Amimnoch
Amimnoch's Journal
Amimnoch's Journal
November 27, 2013
There's a video at the link (I know there's a way to embed the thing, but I'm too tech stupid to know how to do it).
"Change your natural hairstyle or get expelled" - Outrageous school policy.
Stunningly beautiful, gifted, talented young lady told she must re-style her natural hair or get expelled.
http://shine.yahoo.com/parenting/change-natural-hairstyle-or-get-expelled--school-tells-12-year-old-girl-213351760.html
A 12-year-old girl will be expelled from a Florida school unless she gets her hair under control, school officials have told her. Vanessa VanDyke, an honors student and violinist at the Faith Christian Academy in Orlando, tells WKMG that administrators have given her one week to decide whether to cut and shape her hair or leave the school, which she has attended since the third grade.
There's a video at the link (I know there's a way to embed the thing, but I'm too tech stupid to know how to do it).
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