In the News – Child With Alopecia Sent Home from School
Snippet from the article:
A Philadelphia boy with a chronic balding illness was sent home by his school for having too much hair.
Eight-year-old Zion Williams has been receiving medical treatment for the illness called alopecia at Drexel University which includes painful injections to the scalp. Doctors at the Philadelphia university’s medical program told Williams’ mother Talia Mann to let his hair grow for at least ten weeks.
Last Wednesday, Williams was turned away from the Shiloh Christian Academy in Philadelphia for violating the school’s mandatory short hair policy. Mann said she even filed a doctor’s note with the school to allow her son to attend with slightly lengthened hair.
Read the rest — Eight-Year-Old With Alopecia, Hair Loss Disease, Asked To Leave School For ‘Long Hair’
I suspect that this young boy has alopecia areata (an inherited autoimmune disease). The simplest solution to me would be to waive their short hair requirement for a few months so that it would not impact his treatment, but it seems that the school was inflexible in its policies and victimized this boy.
Typical of a “christian” institution.
“Come as you are” – Jesus said.
Not, “come as you are, just make sure your hair is short, face is shaven, and you cover up any those tattoos or holes in you body.”
I went to a “Christian” academy for 3 years of High School and I’ll NEVER step foot in another building of such bigotry again. And for God’s sake, this kid is SICK!
It’s odd isn’t it? Jesus always seems to have a flowing mane of hair in the Christian art I see! Surely the shorn hair of the oppressive roman legions isn’t the best advert for religious doctrine?
Amen, Paul, Amen!
It’s sad when these types of things happen to kids. For a school to send him home for growing his hair out is crazy.