‘Aspect of his heritage’: ACLU blasts school that told Native American boy to cut his hair

RALEIGH, N.C. — A North Carolina school fired back after a civil rights group blasted its short hair rule as “discriminatory.”

The American Civil Liberties Union of North Carolina in a letter warned Classical Charter Schools of Leland that it may have violated the law when it told a Native American boy to cut his hair.

“Logan’s hair is an extension of who he is,” Ashley Lomboy, the child’s mom and a member of the Waccamaw Siouan Tribe, said March 20 in a news release. “Without his hair, he will lose part of himself and a critical aspect of his heritage. Native Americans have been wearing their hair long since time immemorial.”