US school’s hair diktat sparks race controversy

From New Age box fades to braids, a display on the wall of a suburban Atlanta elementary school tried to illustrate a variety of “inappropriate” haircuts and hairstyles. But there was one thing the children who were photographed had in common: They were all black.
The display by the Narvie Harris Theme School in Decatur, Georgia, was taken down on Thursday — the same day it had been put up — after being widely criticised as racially insensitive. The episode happened at a time when cities and states across the US have adopted legislation making it illegal to discriminate on the basis of a person’s hairstyle.
The faces of the children in the photographs were covered with Post-it notes. It was unclear if they were students at the school, which is 95% African-American. The display went viral after Danay Wadlington, the owner of a beauty parlour, posted a photograph of it on Facebook after her client, whose child goes to the school, gave it to her. “It wouldn’t have looked so bad if they had included other races,” Wadlington, said.
The DeKalb County School District, which is Georgia’s third-largest school district and is 64% African-American, would not say who had approved the display. “The poster was the result of a miscommunication... Once the district was made aware of the poster, it was immediately removed.
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