The ban was inside the dress codes grooming section.

Schools ban black hairstyles. A Kentucky High School Banned Black Hairstyles Which Obviously Didnt Go Over Well The Frisky. JB Pritzker signed the Jett Hawkins Law on Friday. - Angel Boose elementary school teacher New Jersey.

Some school districts have banned certain hairstyles like locs and afros while other districts have prevented students from attending school eventsfor example promfor refusing to remove their braids. The law will call on the Illinois State Board of Education to complete a review of school handbooks and policies to ensure they dont single out and ban Black hairstyles like. While celebrities are looking for ways to adopt black hairstyles.

Clintons story is only one example of a system of private schools that routinely punishes students for their hairstyles pushing policies with distinct racial undertones. According to Atlanta Black Star Butler Traditional High School of Louisville Kentucky banned natural Black hairstyles on July 27 2016. Black students have been asked to cut or straighten their hair to meet dress code policies.

High-profile incidents of schools and workplaces cracking down on Black hairstyles including one in North Carolina last week where a softball player was forced to cut her hair during a game. Much of the pressure black women say has come from employers and school officials who dont view locks or braids as the neat professional hairstyle they require or might see the looks as a. School in Tulsa in August rescinded language banning dreadlocks2C afros2C mohawks.

Five months later the state has outlawed hair discrimination protecting the freedom of Illinois students to wear braids locs and similar looks in school. That those are all little black faces and those are traditional black hairstyles makes it worse said the woman who posted the image on social media. A ban on otherwise neat and trim collar-length locs braids or cornrows common hairstyles that are both culturally black and also help protect from damage the fragile tightly-coiled hair.

A school has reportedly banned a haircut known as Meet me at McDonalds as part of a list of six extreme styles. It goes into effect Jan. Most of the new bans which apply to all public schools and to private schools in some places are written to protect hairstyles commonly worn by black people and mention styles like Afros.