I'm so angry- Charter school tells African American girls they must chemically alter their hair?

[Iris]

Hopefully this isn't true. It's being reported today that a school in Ohio has banned, well, just about 75 percent of reasonable hairstyles for school-age African-American girls with natural hair. No "Afro puffs" (the style that results when your hair isn't straight and you pull it back) and no "small twisted braids."

The Root reached out to Horizon Science Academy, where a representative said, "We have about 15 different schools in the state of Ohio" and had "no idea" which campus was responsible for the alleged letter. She could not provide the information or an academy spokesperson to provide a comment.

So, charter schools, which get public monies, can now require little girls to apply chemicals to their scalps in order to receive an education?

And to make me even more upset, someone in my community is saying if they don't like it, they can just "switch schools." Ironically, this person is part of a group who is opposing tearing down some buildings in our town in order to build a government center. Maybe someone should tell him, "If you don't like the new government center, just move!"??????

http://www.theroot.com/buzz/crazy-talk-school-bans-afro-puffs-and-braids