![]() "She said dreads are NOT allowed but he can have braids." " said they gave the opportunity to come back when he have dreads," she wrote. She says the HR correspondent even compared her son's shoulder-length locs to tattoos and piercings, calling it an "extreme hairstyle" and contradicting the policy she read. Uploading a photo of her son looking polished for the interview, she said that she was further disappointed after she called the corporation's human resources office to complain. The Fort Worth mother detailed her frustrations on Facebook Saturday to vent. Karis Washington, his mother, says she researched and found that the company's grooming policy only states that your hair "cannot hang more than 2 inches below your collar and 2 inches above your head including dreads, braids, etc.," not that they're not allowed at all. They told me that I couldn't have dreads because it's more of an extreme hairstyle." "That I would have to do that just to work there. ![]() "I just don't even believe it," he told the publication. Kerion Washington, the 17-year-old Six Flags Over Texas applicant, told NBCDFW 5 that he has been growing and grooming his locs for three years. ![]() Original story: A Texas teen and his mother are reeling from a job interview at Six Flags in which the boy was denied a summer position because he has "extreme" locs. “Male team members may now wear dreadlocks,” communications manager Sharon Parker wrote to The New York Daily News in an email. I truly believe this story has to be told, and has to be told over and over again.”Īs for Six Flags? The company recently changed the guidelines of what counts as an appropriate hairstyle in the wake of Washington’s experience. “I hope he’s successful and able to have a platform to use his voice to talk about things that mean something to him, because he will be put in those positions. Caster hopes this will open many doors for the teen outside of modeling. When they believe the teen is prepared, Jones Model Management will approach IMG to consider Washington’s profile. Thank you for the opportunity to model for y'all and hope I'll do great #kerionwashington #jonesmodelmanagement #newface #jonesingtobeajones #malemodel #dreambig #whenonedoorclosesanotheropensĪ post shared by Kerion Washington on at 12:51pm PDT There will be more coming soon for the other photographers but here a little something.
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