7-Year-Old Black Boy In Alabama Sent Home For "Part In His Hair" Despite Being On Honor Roll [View all]

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BIRMINGHAM, AL (WBRC) - A mother is asking school officials to define acceptable hair styles after she said her 7-year-old son's haircut got him in trouble at school.

"He was like upset and he said I had to come get him out of school because he was being suspended. He was pulled out of class, saying that he had a design in his head but it really wasn't a design, it was a part," Keisha Rembert said.

Keisha Rembert said her son Rashaad Hunter is an honor roll student who doesn't get in trouble. He attends Greenwood Elementary School in Bessemer.

"He was walking with his head down, when I saw him he was like teary-eyed at first because he doesn't want to be suspended for no part in his head. I told him, 'Don't hold your head down...continue to make these A's and B's because that part is nothing,'" Rembert said.

"They need to notate or clarify what is a design?


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