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Jamaica’s Supreme Court Rules That School Can Ban Child With Dreadlocks

With the debate still unresolved whether schools can ban dreadlocks in Ghana , we take a look at a decision by Jamaican Supreme Court ruling Dreadlock



With the debate still unresolved whether schools can ban dreadlocks in Ghana , we take a look at a decision by Jamaican Supreme Court ruling on dreadlocks in schools

The conflict still looms between GHANA Education Service and schools whether specific hairstyle is deem acceptable

Recently ,GES directed Achimota school to accept a Rastafarian who was denied Admission

But , NAGRAT has stepped in , saying GES directives cannot be obeyed

Why Jamaica ?

Jamaica is one of the cultures flooded with Rastafarian , however ,its high court ruled in 2020 that Schools have the power to ban kids with Dreadlocks

Jamaica’s high court ruled Friday that a school was within its rights to demand that a girl cut her dreadlocks to attend classes.
The ruling by the Supreme Court of Jamaica capped a two-year battle after the girl — then 5 years old — was told she must cut her dreadlocks for “hygiene” reasons to study at Kensington Primary School in a Kingston suburb.

A rights group, Jamaicans for Justice, had initially lent support to the family, saying the order for the girl to cut her dreadlocks amounted a denial of her freedom of expression and her access to education.

Others viewed the court battle as a stand against rules seen as discrimination against people who wear “natural” hair, including Rastafarians whose dreadlocks are part of their religious tradition.

The girl and her parents, Dale and Sherine Virgo, who both wear dreadlocks, plan to appeal, said their lawyer, Isat Buchanan.

I will not be cutting my daughter’s hair,” Sherine Virgo said immediately after the ruling. “If they give me that ultimatum again, I will be moving her.”

Virgo’s daughter — now 7 years old and identified in court papers only as Z because she is a minor — was attending classes at the school after the courts delivered an injunction against the Ministry of Education, allowing her to go to school with her dreadlocks intact.

When the school closed this spring because of the coronavirus pandemic, the girl was home-schooled.

“I am more than surprised. It is most unfortunate,” Buchanan said. “It is a most unfortunate day for Black people and for Rastafarian people in Jamaica.”

The girl’s father called the ruling another sign of “systemic racism.”

“A child was refused because of her Black hair, you know?” said Dale Virgo. “It’s so weird that right now in the current climate of the world, in 2020, we are having protests, and Black people are fed up.

“This is an opportunity the Jamaican government and the legal system had to right these wrongs and lead the world and make a change,” he continued. “But they have decided to keep the same system.”

The judgment was delivered in a small courtroom populated mainly by lawyers and the girl’s parents.

The minister of education, Karl Samuda, declined to comment on the ruling, which came on the eve of Emancipation Day, celebrated in Jamaica and elsewhere to mark the end of slavery in the British Empire.

“I’m very cautious about where I tread,” he said, “especially on a sensitive enough subject like that.”

Opinion

Most of Ghana Laws in the schools have divergency with the Constitution

Why ?

Most of the schools were set up  by the missionaries ,so they embalm them with their religious outlook and societal views on morality


What’s the way forward ?
Should the Constitution reviewed or laws of the schools ?

Possible Conflict between government and the mission schools ?

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Jamaica’s Supreme Court Rules That School Can Ban Child With Dreadlocks
With the debate still unresolved whether schools can ban dreadlocks in Ghana , we take a look at a decision by Jamaican Supreme Court ruling Dreadlock
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