Our daughter is a Camas School District 5th grader.  A couple weeks ago she was thrilled to have newly-done bangs of different colors.  Then the Principal confronted her, not discreetly and privately, but in front of her peers in the lunchroom, where he made her take off her knit cap, shamed her for her hair, and made her feel two inches tall.

A District-wide elementary school rule claims that “Hair gels or dyes, unnatural in color, are not acceptable.  These colors may include blue, pink, g...

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