When Arnold refused to chop his locks, his high school suspended him until he changes his mind. AD“It’s really important to me because my dad is from Trinidad,” he told DeGeneres during the show. And I know that the school needs to do the right thing.”Arnold isn’t the only student facing pushback from the school district. Martin Luther King Jr., responded to the school district by criticizing its characterization of Arnold’s hairstyle as unacceptable. Arnold said he hopes his high school will change its mind and let him graduate with his peers.

Source: Washington Post January 30, 2020 11:03 UTC