Tulsa, Oklahoma – A second grader has been forced to quit her elementary school because of her dreadlocks hairstyle.
Tiana Parker, who wears her short locks tied up in bunches, has now enrolled in a nearby school that does not have a problem with her natural hairdo.
Speaking to a local television station, her father, Terrance Parker, said he was shocked when officials at Deborah Brown Community School “hassled” him about Tiana‘s locks, until he was eventually forced to take his daughter out of classes.
Parker, a barber, said school officials told him his daughter’s hair was not presentable. Though, he said, “she’s always presentable. You know I take pride in my kids looking nice.”
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