Get back to BLACK! Why do WE continue to fight against each other. Are we the only race which has a problem with our ethnicity? There are far greater issues to fight!
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Coral Brathwaite
11 years ago
i support the alumnae of Harrison College in their stance on this. How girls choose to groom their natural hair, which is an asset rather than a liability to be disguised and tamed should be up to them and their parents. It is clear that when a school seeks to support a negative opinion of frizzy hair groomed into twists or locks, it has forgotten its mission of helping to build its students self-esteem, so vital for their rounded blossoming into creative, content adults.
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Janine Grant
11 years ago
Misinformed.
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Patrick Bellamy
11 years ago
I don't have a comment, just common sense.
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Khadera Hall
11 years ago
I stand against any attempt to thwartt
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Cheriece Oneal
11 years ago
Embrace who you are. Kinks & Curls won't decrease your intelligence.
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Varia Williams
11 years ago
I did not attend HC. However, I was once a young black girl struggling with identity. I wish I had the courage and encouragement while I was at school, to wear my hair the way it was intended. natural and unfettered.
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Elva Mary Tudor
11 years ago
Thank you for supporting this cause .
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David Inniss
11 years ago
Thanks for the eloquent and respectful response to this issue. i am disheartened that the expression of identity amongst our black women is still being stifled by a societal climate that undermines the beauty of our women in their natural state and labels our men as animalistic. The level of attention paid to things to keep our youth in check in the education system is absurd. Place focus on preparing our youth to compete on the world stage, confident in their own beauty, appearance and abilities.
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Ayo
11 years ago
I can't believe it's Ms Wade! She was such a good teacher at Alleyne....oh well
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Nysha Chaderton
11 years ago
I hope this elicits a response and is the beginning of a true dialogue.
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Samantha Downes
11 years ago
As someone who was personally affected by the principal
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Kaii
11 years ago
You have articulated this beautifully! Thank you!
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Lesley Greig
11 years ago
As a former student of this wonderful institution, this offends and concerns me deeply...
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Gaynelle Marshall
11 years ago
Having seen the photo of the young lady, I am dumbfounded as to how anyone could find her own natural fair "flamboyant". Why must we always have to alter our appearance in order to conform, and to what exactly. And I'm speaking as someone who has done everything definable to my own hair, which is currently in transition out of its chemically straightened hair. You are not you hair. Stop defining people by it.
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kurt straker
11 years ago
Although I fully appreciate the function of attire and the discipline associated with neat clean tidy appearance I cannot find anything at all objectionable about the young lady's hair. The problem lies in our outdated ways of thinking, hopefully issues like these are an indication of our growth and development as a nation and a people. We are learning to define ourselves rather than accept definitions that were imposed from outside for many years. Hopefully in a few years I might use the word maturity in relation to our self-definition because I don't think we there yet. Press on and In Deo Fides.
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Saadia Wilson Taitt
11 years ago
My uncle went to Harrison College in the days when "Tank" was the headmaster. He, along with two other students, were suspended for having Afros. This was in 1974. After many discussions, letter - writing and meetings with the Ministry of Education, it was deemed permissible to wear an Afro to school. This is 2015. Why are we discussing this again?
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Joyann Joseph
11 years ago
I am sadden by this, this is discrimination at it's highest. I can think of so many things that ought to occupy the attention of school administrators. For instance, should we not be concerned that there are children in this land who continue to pass through the primary and secondary school and cannot identify one single letter in the alphabet yet are promoted from one class/form until they are out of the system, why must our hair continue to be offensive when worn in its natural state? utter rubbish.
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Marsha Caddle
· petition starter
11 years ago
Sea A, we as former students think it is a great school, which is why we are concerned with supporting current students in having the type of educational experience we also enjoyed. We were also challenged by these types of issues, and for some of us, this is where our activism began. And let's be clear. Other secondary schools have similar rules. We are hoping that by addressing this particular instance, we can help make it a national discussion.
Get back to BLACK! Why do WE continue to fight against each other. Are we the only race which has a problem with our ethnicity? There are far greater issues to fight!
i support the alumnae of Harrison College in their stance on this. How girls choose to groom their natural hair, which is an asset rather than a liability to be disguised and tamed should be up to them and their parents. It is clear that when a school seeks to support a negative opinion of frizzy hair groomed into twists or locks, it has forgotten its mission of helping to build its students self-esteem, so vital for their rounded blossoming into creative, content adults.
Misinformed.
I don't have a comment, just common sense.
I stand against any attempt to thwartt
Embrace who you are. Kinks & Curls won't decrease your intelligence.
I did not attend HC. However, I was once a young black girl struggling with identity. I wish I had the courage and encouragement while I was at school, to wear my hair the way it was intended. natural and unfettered.
Thank you for supporting this cause .
Thanks for the eloquent and respectful response to this issue. i am disheartened that the expression of identity amongst our black women is still being stifled by a societal climate that undermines the beauty of our women in their natural state and labels our men as animalistic. The level of attention paid to things to keep our youth in check in the education system is absurd. Place focus on preparing our youth to compete on the world stage, confident in their own beauty, appearance and abilities.
I can't believe it's Ms Wade! She was such a good teacher at Alleyne....oh well
I hope this elicits a response and is the beginning of a true dialogue.
As someone who was personally affected by the principal
You have articulated this beautifully! Thank you!
As a former student of this wonderful institution, this offends and concerns me deeply...
Having seen the photo of the young lady, I am dumbfounded as to how anyone could find her own natural fair "flamboyant". Why must we always have to alter our appearance in order to conform, and to what exactly. And I'm speaking as someone who has done everything definable to my own hair, which is currently in transition out of its chemically straightened hair. You are not you hair. Stop defining people by it.
Although I fully appreciate the function of attire and the discipline associated with neat clean tidy appearance I cannot find anything at all objectionable about the young lady's hair. The problem lies in our outdated ways of thinking, hopefully issues like these are an indication of our growth and development as a nation and a people. We are learning to define ourselves rather than accept definitions that were imposed from outside for many years. Hopefully in a few years I might use the word maturity in relation to our self-definition because I don't think we there yet. Press on and In Deo Fides.
My uncle went to Harrison College in the days when "Tank" was the headmaster. He, along with two other students, were suspended for having Afros. This was in 1974. After many discussions, letter - writing and meetings with the Ministry of Education, it was deemed permissible to wear an Afro to school. This is 2015. Why are we discussing this again?
I am sadden by this, this is discrimination at it's highest. I can think of so many things that ought to occupy the attention of school administrators. For instance, should we not be concerned that there are children in this land who continue to pass through the primary and secondary school and cannot identify one single letter in the alphabet yet are promoted from one class/form until they are out of the system, why must our hair continue to be offensive when worn in its natural state? utter rubbish.
Sea A, we as former students think it is a great school, which is why we are concerned with supporting current students in having the type of educational experience we also enjoyed. We were also challenged by these types of issues, and for some of us, this is where our activism began. And let's be clear. Other secondary schools have similar rules. We are hoping that by addressing this particular instance, we can help make it a national discussion.