A 9 Year Old Girl Shaved Her Head To Support Her Friend With Cancer, Is Then Suspended For Violating The School's Dress Code

FOX – A 9-year-old Colorado girl was kept out of school on Monday after shaving her head to support a friend battling cancer. KDVR.com reports that officials at Caprock Academy in Grand Junction told the student, Kamryn, she couldn’t come back to class without a wig or until her natural hair grew back because her shaved head violates the school’s dress code. With her parents’ approval, Kamryn shaved her head in support of her friend, 11-year-old Delaney, who is battling neuroblastoma, a childhood cancer, and recently started chemotherapy. “It felt like the right thing to do,” Kamryn told 9News.com. Delaney’s mom, Wendy Campbell, told the station she was surprised Caprock Academy refused to let Kamryn in because of the dress code. “I didn’t realize that hair was such an important aspect of a child at school,” Campbell said. “For a little girl to be really brave and want to shave her head in support of her friend, I thought that was a huge statement and it builds character in a child,” In a statement to 9News.com, Catherine Norton Breman, president and Chair of the academy’s board of directors, said the dress code “was created to promote safety, uniformity, and a non-distracting environment for the school’s students. Under this policy, shaved heads are not permitted.”

I read the article. I then shut my eyes really hard and reopened them. And it was still the same. That actually was a thing that actually happened. Pretty incredible stuff. Kamryn is 9 years old. A 9 year old girl. And when she took it upon herself to support her friend with fucking childhood cancer, the school suspended her. How is that even a sentence that I just wrote? I’m so blown away by this. How do school administrators continually do shit like this? What sort of message are they trying to send? Their rules that were written without any context are more important than the absolute bravery of Delaney, the 11 year old going through chemo, and Kamryn, the 9 year old who shaved her head? I’m so repulsed. I don’t often think people should lose their jobs for mistakes, but every single person involved in this decision should lose their job. How are they in charge of sculpting the minds and brains of the youth when they make such atrocious, disgusting decisions? Look, I get “rules are rules”. But if you think that applies here, you are one of the dumbest human beings on the planet.

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