CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Metro & Tri-State :: Board gives girl green light for tinted hair
January 12, 2007
The Chicago Heights principal who told a student with red hair highlights to go home has been overruled.
The school board that oversees Sandridge School voted Wednesday night to allow dyed hair -- providing it's not a distraction.
And 13-year-old Holli Boam was allowed to return to school Thursday without having to get rid of the highlights.
"I'm good with it," said Principal Leroy Coleman of the school board's decision.
Coleman said he was simply trying to be "proactive" and avoid taunting from other students when he made the decision that Holli should go home and rinse out the hair dye.
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