Quote:Story time for you TMD about "rules" regarding hair and how school administration applies them:

 

I remember when Katrina hit we got some transplants from Louisiana and I had a guy transfer to my school from some suburban school because he had dreadlocks and the administration was all for letting him transfer there until they saw he had dreadlocks even though there was nothing in their dress code that said he couldn't have dreads. The only thing involving hairstyles in their dress code was unnatural hair color. They told him that he could be admitted if he cut his hair. 

 

And more recently a girl left a school in Oklahoma she had been attending because they deemed her dreadlocks to be against the dress code and "faddish" and distracting...even after she was at the same school with the same hairstyle the year before. 

 

A friend of mine wanted to go to one of the more selective high schools in the area and their policy said that unnatural hair styles were not allowed, and they attempted to deny him admittance because he had dreadlocks. He graduated from an ivy league and is doing just fine these days. 

 

Those are just a few of my dreadlock related examples of the "rules" and how they are applied.