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Thursday, 18th January 2007
Teen Segregated because of hair braids
A TEENAGE girl was segregated from other pupils after school bosses ruled she was the wrong race to have braided hair.Stephanie Tudor, 13, was told to spend lunch-time indoors at St Edmund Arrowsmith RC High in Ashton-in-Makerfield, Wigan, because she was wearing braids in her hair.
Her mother Julie has now accused the school of being racist because Afro-Caribbean students are allowed to wear their hair in braids or dreadlocks, but her white daughter cannot.
