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A mother in Red Rock, Oklahoma, is outraged because her son came home from school last week with his hair cut.
On Facebook, Rachelle Plumley said her 7-year-old son is Native American and wears his long hair with pride. She said she burst into tears when he came home from Frontier Public School last week with his hair missing.
The school district told Plumley that her son had cut his own hair, the mother said, but he was afraid of haircuts.
She asked why no one was looking after her son because he was autistic and attended a special education class with three teaching assistants.
Erron Kauk, superintendent of Frontier Public Schools, gave a statement to KFOR about the situation:
“We are very proud of what we do here at Frontier for our Native American heritage and our heritage. But there were allegations that a student’s hair was cut by a school employee. We took that very seriously and we followed up and investigated. That did not happen. I can’t go into the student’s situation, but we did a thorough investigation and found that a student’s hair was not cut by a school employee. We investigated. We had an administrator investigate, we had a school resource officer, and then I investigated myself.”
The haircut of the boy from Red Rock resembles the previous situation in Del City
In 2022, the father of a seven-year-old Native American boy testified that two classmates who had bullied his son cut off the boy’s braids in first grade.
School officials told the father, Jay Garcia, that they believed his son was also involved in the haircut.
Regardless of the exact details of the situation, teachers and school administrators need to understand the seriousness of an Indigenous student’s hair loss and know how to deal with bullying based on cultural discrimination, advocates said.
