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Started by: empress (9667) 

Suprised no one picked up on ,and mentioned this.
Last week there was an article in the Observer, later picked up by the Daily mirror, about a pupil being excluded from lessons (placed in solitary?!) for having her hair plaited . The plaits were the tiny ones, they were weaved against her head, not flapping around or anything. The school said it was unnaceptable, wasn't part of her 'culture' or something .
Now scuse me.............last year I posted on here about my kids being taught various piggin faiths, making divali candles in art class to celebrate a muslim festival etc ( bear in mind there isn't one muslim child in my kids school)
as I said, at the time thats not part of their culture but the school sees it part of learning and part of the national (or should that international) curriculum.
I saw the pics of this girls hair, it was far tidier than pig tails, no fringe over her eyes, it looked neat and it wasn't done in crazy colours or anything.
The secondary school who made an issue out of it is the one i attended, its always been strict, overly so. But I think excluding this girl from class for this was nothing short of petty and ridiculous.Schools now insist we embrace other cultures and races, so how they justify making an issue out of a white child having plaits?Surely its racist? I raised my kids to be colour blind when it comes to people , it shouldn't matter , if this kid had come to school with a mohican I could understand the fuss.

Replied: 22nd Jan 2007 at 11:48

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