![]() The student walked out of school, but returned and graduated when hats were allowed in common spaces, according to the story. While serving as interim principal, Eberle said he started off intending to enforce a no-hats policy, but a disagreement with an 18-year-old student who was wearing a hat and refused to remove it changed his view, the paper reported. Wayne Eberle recommended a policy allowing students to wear hats in common spaces, but not in classrooms, according to a 2017 story in the Watauga Democrat newspaper. In Boone, N.C., however, a high school official changed his mind about hats after a confrontation with a student. ![]() “To reiterate our rationale,” Clarke wrote, “they (durags) are a direct component of school to prison pipeline and unfortunately, they are also reflective of some gang culture. “I just feel like it’s a part of our culture that they’re trying to take away,” KIPP Academy Lynn Collegiate High School senior Jaeqhan McClain was quoted as saying in the 2018 story.īut the school’s dean of students and culture, Shauna-Kaye Clarke, sent an email to students confirming the headwrap ban and the reasons. “But for the students, the head coverings are an important part of black culture, often used to create and preserve a hairstyle known as waves.”īlack students at a charter school in Lynn, Mass., also pushed for a policy change to allow durags, according to the Daily Item newspaper. “The students say the ban on durags exists because administrators believe they are associated with gangs,” the Feb. earlier this year, high school students walked out of class to protest a prohibition on durags, the San Gabriel Valley Tribune newspaper reported. ![]() Many school districts have policies similar to Manchester’s, which says student attire “should reflect respect for self, others, and an atmosphere of learning.” Dress code battles across the nation, however, have focused on whether specific rules are too restrictive, or in some cases, racially insensitive. “Students we have spoken with are very much aware that they would not wear a durag or baseball hat to a job interview, just as they wouldn’t wear their jeans or sweatpants to a job interview - but those items are allowed in school.” “Additionally, prohibiting durags and hair scarves shows a lack of sensitivity to all students, as in some cases head coverings are tied to self-expression, hair trends and identity,” Farrell said. “However, we don’t have evidence that head coverings impede learning. ![]() “We care very much about rules that create a safe and appropriate learning environment,” district spokesman Jim Farrell said. ![]()
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