The letter noted that the 8-year-old was told by school officials in August that he needed to cut his hair to comply with the "Boy's Hair Length" in the student dress code — a policy that does ...

R.V. Haderlein Elementary, located about 140 miles south of Kansas City, has a “Boy's Hair Length” policy that calls for boys, not girls, to wear their hair short, the ACLU said.

An 8-year-old Native American boy in Kansas was forced to cut his hair to comply with his elementary school’s hair policy, according to the Kansas American Civil Liberties Union, which called ...

A school district in Kansas has changed its hair policy after the state’s chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union said an 8-year-old Native American boy was forced to cut his hair to ...

Officials at R.V. Haderlein Elementary in Girard, Kansas, forced an 8-year-old Native American boy to cut his hair, despite objections that he grew it out to connect with his cultural heritage.