Students at a Massachusetts charter school are challenging a new dress code policy that bans the wearing of do-rags and bandannas, calling the head covering a cultural choice.
KIPP Academy Lynn Collegiate is facing backlash from male students of color who want to wear do-rags as part of their culture and as a way to keep hair down, Item Live reports.
Jaeqhan McClain, an 18-year-old senior at the school who has always worn a do-rag to class, told Item Live, “I just feel like it’s a part of our culture that they’re trying to take away. They’re saying we’re affiliated with gangs.”
The school initiated the dress code rule banning the head gear while students are on school property because, the school argues, it could be seen as reflective of gang culture.
“To reiterate our rationale, [do-rags] are a direct component of school to prison pipeline and unfortunately, they are also reflective of some gang culture. And they can recede your hairline. That’s not setting you up for success,” Shauna-Kaye Clarke, dean of students and culture at KIPP Academy Lynn Collegiate, said in an email sent out to the student body on Sunday regarding the ban, Item Live reported.
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