What is un-Christian about dreadlocks??

Whereas sisi tulikuwa tunanyolewa na makas. the world has changed for the better

Is it the people to shape up or the institution?

The next thing is the boy will come to school with msokoto ya ganja halafu aseme ni ya marasta.

Dreadlocks do not equate freedoms...unless they prove factual constitutional breaches e.g religion...where the child was denied the right to practise Rastafarism and even so being Rasta does not equate to having locks since many Rasta,s don,t have locks.The child cannot be beholden to the Nazarite vow since the parents are not practising Jews...like Samson et al...with that the mum should just give up.

Logical.

Unlike the Sabbath case you mentioned earlier, there is no religious right to be infringed if hair is done. The school also cannot cite religion to control hairdo styles. If the parent is rigid that the child has to have a certain hairdo at the expense of the child's education, the parent could be an unfit parent. Education is more important than hairdo.

I saw this twist about 'the people' and 'institutions' coming. It was in your initial question. But I chose to go along because I believe that institutions have some kind of rationality that's different from personal and private rationality. All the same the court case is part of the institutional change.

@quicksand, I notice that you've given examples of some institutions that allow people to dress as they wish, and some that have strict codes. And at the same time you say that the ones with strict codes don't violate any rights. I think there's a contradiction there. Because if there were no contradiction whatsoever then there'd hardly be a difference between the two kinds of institutions that you've mentioned.

@maka's argument has some limitation. Cultural and existential freedoms aren't cut in stone such that others can speak for others and determine what's in or out. That's what's happens when a European and an Arab meet for example. Or colonial assimilation policies. All these don't promote and respect human diversity and equality.

You have said up there that Rusinga needs to work in a multicultural environment: No they don't. They have a right to be conservative if they so wish. There are schools that are progressive. The parent can enroll their kid in those schools. Flip the coin and look at it this way, if Rusinga was very progressive and a conservative parent wanted to remove their kid to a more conservative school, would Rusinga be entitled to sue to stop the kid from leaving?

The High Court sitting in Nairobi has declined to issue an order compelling a Nairobi school to reinstate a student suspended for sporting dreadlocks. Justice Mumbi Ngugi declined to issue an order directing Rusinga School to allow the six-year-old pupil back to school - See more at: http://www.the-star.co.k...ass#sthash.dT6rfIPu.dpuf