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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, according to the letter the ACLU sent Girard School District administrators on November 17.
The ACLU is demanding the school change their dress code policy, claiming it violates religious freedom as it was applied to the young student.
The ACLU is demanding that a Kansas elementary school repeal a policy it says forbids boys from wearing long hair after an 8-year-old Native American student was allegedly forced to cut his or be sent home.
The ACLU is demanding the school change their dress code policy, claiming it violates religious freedom as it was applied to the young student.