In recent news teacher kicks student out of class because her hairstyle wasn’t professional!
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A Toronto principal kicked a 13 year old 8th grader out of class because she wouldn’t pull her afro into a puff or ponytail. The 13 year old girl whose identity will not be announced due to her parents demand was in class doing her work when the situation took place. The principal of Amesbury Middle School, Tracey Barnes approached her and instructed her to pull her hair back or spend the rest of the period in the office.
Barnes told the girl that her hair was too puffy, unprofessional and needed to be corralled.
The 13 year old girl was shocked and surprise to hear what the principal had said!
“I didn’t see what the big deal was about my hair because it wasn’t bothering anybody. I was just doing my work so I didn’t see why I had to be pulled out of class because of my hair.”
While the young girl’s family doesn’t want to receive any further backlash by revealing the young girl’s identity, her aunt, Keysie Quansah, spoke out both on Facebook and to news cameras.
“I know that as a little black girl it’s hard growing up in this world. It’s hard growing up with European beauty standards kind of pushed down on us from a young age.”
The young girl’s mother said that the principal, a black woman, had been bothering her daughter about her hair since she stopped wearing it in braids and started wearing it out, in a loose natural kink.
Her aunt said that she was surprised to learn that the principal was black, but also not!
“We grew up all this time feeling like we’re not beautiful. And so far her to see my niece and her natural hair and to think ‘Oh, she will never get a position or she won’t be accepted in society because of that’ feels like it was drilled in her when she was growing up and now she’s projecting that onto little black girls who may have reminded her of her past.”
Sources say that the school doesn’t require uniforms but I guess they have an unspoken rule on hairstyles. We face a lot of issues in the African American community everyday but a situation like this has me wondering when will it stop or will it just continue and be looked at as something that isn’t that serious?
