After principal Tonya King denied junior Jim Stack’s request to grow his hair out for charity, the school board will meet monday night to determine whether or not to over turn the principal’s decision.
“We have rules for a reason, and we can’t just go breaking them anytime we want,” King said. “The school would be chaos then.”
It is against school dress code for male students to grow their hair past their collar or be of an unnatural color. King does suggest, as an alternative to raise a fund raiser, she says she would be more than willing to help.
“Anyone can donate money,” stack says “But it takes time and dedication to grow your hair out and donate it”
Locks of Love, a nonprofit organization that sends kids with cancer 100% human hair wigs, gets more than 200 requests for wigs a month. Every month they must turn down about 150 of those requests.
“We desperately need human hair for our wigs,” Locks of Love president Gisel Roco said. “We refer parents to other organizations, but I wish we didn’t have to.”