May 2, 2023 12:01 pm
State-Funded Charter School Says Native 1st-Grader’s Traditional Hair Violates Dress Code
UPDATED (3/31/2023) A North Carolina Native American family is fighting against a state-funded charter school’s demand that their first-grade boy gets his hair cut. The school system recently changed its dress and grooming code to define a boy wearing his hair in a bun or braids as “faddish.”