Post by Logan on Mar 2, 2016 5:35:33 GMT -6
DURHAM -- The school board this week approved cultural exemptions to the dress code and voted to end suspensions as a punishment for truancy.
Dress-code exemptions will still be left to the principal’s discretion, something that concerned several mothers whose daughters were told to remove geles and other African headwraps last month.
“That was our main issue with the incident at hand,” Dosali Reed-Bandele said.
School board Chair Heidi Carter emphasized that the principal had been restricted by the old dress code, which did not allow her to make an exception for the girls’ headwraps.
Read more here: www.newsobserver.com/news/local/counties/durham-county/article63382492.html
Dress-code exemptions will still be left to the principal’s discretion, something that concerned several mothers whose daughters were told to remove geles and other African headwraps last month.
“That was our main issue with the incident at hand,” Dosali Reed-Bandele said.
School board Chair Heidi Carter emphasized that the principal had been restricted by the old dress code, which did not allow her to make an exception for the girls’ headwraps.
Read more here: www.newsobserver.com/news/local/counties/durham-county/article63382492.html