Boy Banned From Kindergarten For Long Hair

A Texas school board will soon decide if a boy's long hair should keep him from attending school.

The Needville Independent School District said 5-year-old Adriel Arocha's long locks violate school rules. Adriel's parents say long hair is a sacred tradition in their Native American culture.

Kenny Arocha, Adriel's father, said long hair is a religious symbol for the Apache tribe that should only be cut at the time of a life-changing event.

It's great to see Americans are finding reasons to keep children from attending school.

Read the 9 News Colorado story.


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Evolution to be Taught in Florida's Public Schools

Can someone please tell me what century we are in? How is it in this day and age, people are questioning the theory of evolution in favour of the biblical creation story? Geeze Louise!

A bitter debate over how to teach evolution in Florida's public schools ended -- at least temporarily -- with a compromise on Tuesday, February 19.

A divided state Board of Education voted 4-3 in Tallahassee to adopt new science standards that for the first time require teaching evolution. The majority selected a last-minute alternative rather than the original document created by scientists and science teachers after months of work.

That compromise, introduced late last week, inserts the phrase "the scientific theory of" in front of evolution and certain other concepts.

The vote was the latest in a long line of public debates over evolution dating back to the Scopes Monkey Trial in 1925, when a teacher was convicted of violating Tennessee's evolution ban. That verdict was reversed on technicality, but courts later ruled evolution could be taught.

Courts subsequently barred teaching the biblical account of creation along with evolution.


Read the story, according to the South Florida Sun-Sentinel