Braxton Schafer News Today

According to officials, O'Gorman High School never told Braxton's parents that he has to transfer schools.

A Black 14-year-old high school freshman in South Dakota is being forced to either trim his loc hairstyle or find a new school.

Braxton Schafer, a black student at a Catholic school in South Dakota will have to leave the school after he was told to cut his dreadlocks by administrators who say it is against school policy.

Braxton Schafer's parents are blasting O'Gorman High School for ordering their son to cut his shoulder-length dreadlocks because of its dress code policy. Schafer refused to comply and has decided to leave the school after this semester.

The parents of a Black South Dakota high school student are upset that their son's school told them that their child must cut his hair or leave the school.

A Black South Dakota teen feels he has no choice but to switch schools after refusing to cut his hair, his mother said.

“We were open to a lot of different compromises. The only one was just not cutting his hair.

A South Dakota High School has allegedly threatened a Black teen with expulsion if the doesn’t cut his dreadlocks. 

A Black teenager will leave his high school rather than obey an order to cut his locs, an ultimatum his father finds "culturally biased."

The 14-year-old has been in the Catholic school system since sixth grade and his parents say his hair has never been an issue until now.