Braids ok.

• Position: STATELINE - Brief article

A federal appeals court upheld a lower court ruling that the Needville Independent School District violated Texas state law by punishing a 5-year-old American Indian student for wearing his hair in traditional braids, an expression of his family's religious beliefs. School officials had placed the kindergartner in an in-school suspension. The school district requires boys to cut their hair above their ears or the tops of their shirt collars. The boy's parents sought permission for the braids...