Two black female students attending a charter school in Massachusetts were recently kicked off their sports teams and prohibited from attending prom all because they wore their hair in braids. the school enforces a strict dress code preventing students from wearing their hair in any unnatural way, which includes braids.
students at the school, said they were told to take their braids out two weeks ago by school officials. The girls’ adoptive mother, said that she received a call from the school informing her that students weren’t allowed to wear “anything artificial or unnatural in their hair.”