At the start of each school year districts across PA distribute their updated school rules. The documents are a main driver of racially discriminatory practices, and impact Black girls in particular.
A poster for the CROWN Act in the office of Speaker of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives Joanna McClinton at the Capitol in Harrisburg Wednesday, Dec. 13, 2023. Black girls who wear protective hairstyles are routinely subjected to school rules prohibiting these forms of expression.These important documents set forth school rules that are often subjective, vague, and a main driver of racially discriminatory practices.
Amaiyah Monet Parker, a Pennsylvania public school graduate who now attends college, shared her expertise about how rules shaped her experience. “Black girls’ bodies are constantly policed, and they are often criminalized. They don’t even have the security to unapologetically be themselves without the fear of judgment. If Black girls can’t be children in schools, where can they be children?”
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