Haderlein Elementary School News Today

GIRARD, Kan. — Her birthday isn’t until Saturday — but a Girard-area woman got to celebrate it early, Thursday. Willadean Bever is a resident at the Homestead Senior Living facility in Girard. On Saturday — she’ll turn 102. The facility posted her latest milestone on its Facebook page and organized a party for her. There […]

An 8-year-old Native American boy was “forced” to cut his hair to comply with his school’s policy, according to the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation.

School administrators in Kansas this September violated an eight-year old Native American boy’s cultural and religious freedoms when they required him to cut his long hair to conform to school policy, according to the Kansas American Civil Liberties Union Foundation (ACLU). The boy, a member of the Wyandotte Nation of Oklahoma, had been growing his hair for more than a year after seeing tribal men wear their hair long at the Nation’s annual gathering of the Little Turtles, accordi...