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Antiguan student wearing locs who was refused entry into Seventh Day Adventist Academy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

When an Adventist school in Antigua turned a child away from the classroom on her first-day of school on Monday 4th September,\u00a0 because her hair was dreadlocked, no one thought it would have caused such a stir in St Johns to the extent that the government would join those condemning the decision.<\/p>\n

On Monday, a mother; Jordan Mason, reported that the principal of Seventh Day Adventist Academy refused her five-year-old entrant into the school because the school has a policy against wearing locks.<\/p>\n

The child, who had already been accepted into the school, was turned away during orientation after the principal pulled her mother aside and informed her that the child could not attend school with locs.<\/p>\n

The mother was given an ultimatum to chop off her daughter’s hair or not to return.<\/p>\n

While the family do not present themselves as Rastafarians, the Gaston Browne Cabinet said Wednesday that the Constitution of Antigua and Barbuda protects freedom of religion, freedom of association, and the freedom to hold a belief system that differs from the majority.<\/p>\n

All Cabinet members agreed that preventing a child from being schooled because of their hairstyle is discriminatory and will not have the support of the government and according to the government, if it becomes necessary, the Parliament of Antigua and Barbuda will be induced to change its policy into law.<\/p>\n

The government said that objection to natural hairstyles on the heads of students may be seen or understood as a practice governing the school\u2019s policy on the appearance of students but suggests that its objective is to enable discrimination against children from the Rastafarian community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When an Adventist school in Antigua turned a child away from the classroom on her first-day of school on Monday 4th September,\u00a0 because her hair was dreadlocked, no one thought it would have caused such a stir in St Johns…","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":289689,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","footnotes":""},"categories":[16,235,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-289680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-educationyouth","category-homepage-carousel","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nAntigua Gov\u2019t prepared to legislate the wearing of locs at school - 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