A SCHOOL that put a Black pupil in isolation for two days because of her “inappropriate hairstyle” has been blasted for discrimination.
Kerry, whose daughter Mayla attends Barr Beacon School in Walsall, said the school “singled out” her daughter and it was down to racism.
Mayla, 13, had her hair in box braids which had red hair added to it after recently attending a wedding.
However, her white classmates also had their hair dyed with no consequences, her mum claimed.
The schoolgirl missed lessons while in isolation and had to work alone from books.
“I get really stressed out over it,” Mayla told the BBC. “They’re telling me to take it out and put my hair in a bobble, but I don’t like it in a bobble.”
Her mum went on to describe her daughter as “a good child” and the schools decision to put her in isolation as “absolutely disgusting”.
Mayla had previously been reprimanded for another box braid hairstyle in May 2022, but it was not coloured which prompted Kerry to accuse the school of discrimination.
The school, based in the West Midlands, hit back at the allegations saying its policy was “administered equally to all pupils”.
Matrix Academy Trust, which runs the school, told the BBC it could not comment on individual cases.
It added they had “very high expectations of pupils” and “any pupil with brightly-coloured hair will be asked to remove the hair colour”.
It went on to strongly deny “any race discrimination”.
Kerry has since contacted the school for a meeting about the incident but has not received a response.
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It has become completely “appropriate,” and accepted without criticism, for female pupils at England Public and State Secondary Schools, to attend class adorn with make-up, and skirts which expose all of their thighs; whilst barely covering their undergarment.
English female pupils dress for school as if they are “ladies of the night;” rather than children in receipt of state funded educational instruction.
However, our Left-wing, Politically Correct School Governors have punished and disciplined a African-heritage pupil for having Cain-row extensions; which the school describe as an “inappropriate hairstyle.”
It is easier to attack African-heritage pupils over their “inappropriate-hairstyle,” than correct the highly sexualised, and completely “inappropriate” dress of England’s female pupils.
So were in an age of being told LGBTQ is ok transgenger is ok wearing a hijab is ok but wearing braids which would could out in about 4 weeks is not ok, and it educationally worth it that the child loses two days of learning over her headtop. What would you tell a rastfarian child that his religious belief dont matter too! This hairstyle is recognised wirld wide but your school has a problem with it? Something not quite right here, do you see?
I would’ve gone through their complaints process. In addition I would’ve given examples of the definition of racism, taken my child out of the school and made a complaint to my Mp as well as the local Education Department. My complaint would also give me time to also ask other parents from the BAME community with children in the school, about their experiences and witnessed discriminatory practices as well as obtaining any video or picture evidence. The unfairness abd abuse of power to complete discriminatory oractices/racism is now rampant in the uk. People don’t care if they’re outed as such a person anymore. This response is typucal of the banding together that they do to cover up their behaviour.