So this just seems like an appropriate post to mention this.

Does this mean we can start kicking Jews and coloreds out of our business establishments?

Ok??? Last summer I got my hair braided for maybe $80 tops. My next door neighbor did it, and I think the packs of hair weren’t even $10 each! Do these fools know anything? Ugh. So tired of white people not knowing shit and then making up stories. They literally could probably have checked Craigslist and called a hair…

Did you go to school with her?

Oh dear God no! $500 is outrageous. Back when Beyonce work micro braids during her stint with DC, the style was extremely popular. Despite the style’s popularity, you’d still be hard pressed to find a place charging that much. But remember location plays a big part in it too, so costs may vary.

“promote equity by focusing on what unites our students and reducing visible gaps between those of different means,”

I wonder what’s the Jewish and Italian make-up of this school. Because my current “situation” or whatever you want to call him is Jewish. His sister has hair so thick she usually will style her hair with her hands and a good brush. She said shes broken too many combs, lol. However my Italian step Mom’s ​hair wasn’t…

My sister works for a charter next town over and is in the union. If I’m wrong, that’s fine. But my understanding is Malden charter is also union.

‘... promoter equity by focusing on what unites our students and reducing visible gaps between those of different means,” and that hair extensions, “tend to be very expensive.”’

Yep. They probably wouldn’t have said a word about or even noticed if a straight-haired white girl was wearing extensions. Someone upthread said they also had rules against hair-dye and that black and other PoC- students were getting in trouble for it more than white students. Rules like this are just bound to be…

It’s almost always the girls that are expected to conform in my school. Their clothing is “too revealing”. I simply tell the adult that complains about the violations that if they care so much, they can go ahead and report the student. I have basically stopped wasting my time on the dress code.

Yes, that is what I meant. I’m a white girl with frizzy/curly hair. I don’t think for a minute this school would hassle me for the thickness of my hair, nor would they give a white girl a hard time for braiding her hair.

Nitpicky dress codes in general are annoying. I hate enforcing shoe color, tucked in shirts, and things like that. I generally try to avoid doing so, but then during transitions, principals will inevitably come by and criticize my line of kids for not having shirts tucked in, etc. I would never wear a t-shirt or polo…

Let’s amend that. They were strongarming BLACK girls into unnatural hairstyles. Little Susie Aryan with her straight blonde hair is perfectly fine.

These are teachers/school administrators who likely consider themselves ‘Liberal’ or ‘good people’ who wear pink pussy hats, blatantly trying to ruin these young black girls lives.

I remember one time I was distracted by a classmates hair. It was the late 70s. This tall thin white girl got a curly perm. It was not a good fashion choice for her. I think she had it cut out of her hair 2 weeks later. Its been over 30 years and I’m still traumatized.

“Unevenly enforced” is what stood out to me. Does this mean they were using it to single out some black students on a technicality — or were white students allowed to wear them?

Good. From my reading, the only way a girl with kinky/curly hair could stay within the rules would be to relaxers and/or daily straightening. The rules barred braids/locs/twists, and also prohibited hair “thicker” than 2 inches, which I interpreted as no fro/puff styles. They were basically strong arming girls into…

“promote equity by focusing on what unites our students and reducing visible gaps between those of different means,”

How in the actual hell could anyone have considered this a good policy? As a teacher, there are about 500 other things more important than hair. Of course throwing in some actual racism in your policy is just mind boggling.