This week, St Gregory's Catholic Science College in Harrow, London, went to court to defend its right to exclude a 12-year-old boy for wearing cornrows. Headmaster Andrew Prindiville claims that his ban on cornrows "plays a critical role in ensuring that the culture associated with gangs of boys in particular – eg haircuts, bandanas, jewellery, hats and hoodies – has no place in our school". In his statement to the court, he added: "What I am saying is that if we were to permit the wearing [of] any particular non-traditional haircut, such as cornrows, this would lead to huge pressure to unravel the strict policy that we have adopted, and which is a vital part of our success in keeping out of our school influences which have no place there – gang culture and pop culture."
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