Boy Turned Away From School For Wearing Cornrows

by Julia Rubin | 3:54 pm, June 19th, 2011

Two years ago, an 11-year-old boy arrived for his first day of school at St. Gregory’s Catholic Science College in London. The school’s dress code called for all boys to wear their hair with “short back and sides” in an effort to curb “gang culture”. The boy showed up with his hair in cornrows, and was promptly turned away. Now he’s had his day in court.