What would you do if your child had to leave class because of the hair product she uses?
Allegedly, an 8-year-old African-American girl was removed from class because her teacher said the child's hair was sickening. As a result, the little girl had to go to the hallway and finally to another classroom.
This is why she has not returned to Thurgood Marshall Elementary School in Seattle for two week.
The child's father, Charles Mudede, said "he had a lot of questions when his daughter, the only black child in her advanced-placement class, came home from school last month and announced her teacher made her leave the classroom because the girl's hair was making the teacher sick."
The father further explained that the school has not communicated with them to explain what is so appalling about his child's hair. Therefore, he is reluctant to send her back to school.
Mudede asked "why did the school seem oblivious to the racial overtones of a white teacher singling out her only black student?"
This proud father said he has raised his daughter to treasure being black and to reject temptations of straightening her hair with "products in an effort to look more like her white classmates."
The NAACP is planning to file a grievance with the U.S. Department of Education in order to rectify this problem.
All teachers should undergo cultural diversity training because no child should be treated that way. And if her teacher is allergic to the child's natural hair product, a quick trip to a pharmacist will solve that problem.
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