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hrmjustin

(71,265 posts) Tue Aug 26, 2014, 10:58 PM Aug 2014

Rastafarian Student Reportedly Punished At School Over Dreadlocks

Rebecca Klein

A Louisiana school district’s dress code is violating a student’s constitutional rights, according to the American Civil Liberties Union.

The ACLU sent a letter to Plaquemines Parish School Board and South Plaquemines High School this week decrying the district’s decision to suspend a student for sporting dreadlocks. The student belongs to the Rastafarian religion, which holds that men should refrain from cutting their hair and grow it in long dreadlocks.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/26/south-plaquemines-rastafarian-student_n_5717489.html?utm_hp_ref=religion

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