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PLEASANT GROVE, Utah – A mother in Pleasant Grove is speaking out after her daughter was reprimanded for wearing dreadlocks to the charter school she attends.

The Lincoln Academy has strict policies and guidelines for their dress code. But her mother says she wears them for religious reasons.

“I guess it’s just like representing like me turning over a new leaf and like trying to find myself,” said eighth-grader Caycee Cunningham about her dreadlocks.

After studying abroad in Guatemala, Cunningham at Lincoln Academy grew dreadlocks as part what she calls a spiritual journey in her Hindu beliefs. […]

“My daughter is white and there happens to be other kids in the school who happen to be other race and ethnicity and they have hair that can’t be combed, and there’s never been an issue regarding that before,” Judd said. […]

While Judd says she respects the charter school’s dress code, she doesn’t believe her daughter’s hair is a distraction and says she shouldn’t be discriminated against.

“Not only have they been racially profiling my daughter because she happens to be a while girl with dreadlocks, but it’s also taking away the rights of my daughter’s religious beliefs and her spiritual journey,” Judd said.

HT: Mediaite