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Opinion: Is it traditional to wear cornrows at school?
Is it traditional for our boy children to wear cornrows at primary school? Why?

 

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My most direct answer to the question is yes, it is traditional to wear cornrows at school, but in a school of tradition. From housing, schooling, marriage/wedlock and general family values all in aide of securing the next generation, adults and their fragmented survival based communities have hijacked them all to secure and save themselves. Lets hope the child does his parents proud and grades straight A's as a result of this victory of so called values and identity.

sizzla,
Sun 3 July 2011, 11:59 am

I do agree legally judgement was served and credit for sticking out the fight as no doubt if it was given up as a lost cause there'd be untold talk of how weak we are as a people and community. Morally though it's the same old case of selective scapegoating of so called tradition or culture as I'm sure if you dug deep enough tradition would suggest you shouldn't even be in that school in the first place.

sizzla,
Sun 3 July 2011, 11:36 am

One thing I learned about this system is how much it discards anyone who doesn't map into the structure of having certain qualifications by a certain age. I don't believe we were all cut out to be academics or at least not when the system wants us to be so my job as a parent is to encourage academic success but more importantly provide the foundation for alternatives if our children don't quite meet the grade.

sizzla,
Sun 3 July 2011, 11:25 am

I for one believed we were working towards building our own schools even if that meant earning the crust in our 'home of circumstance' and returning to the motherland to do so. The reality is we aren't defending anything more than our predicament so get high thinking we've proved a point with such trivial success stories which are really just smokescreens to hide the fact that we really aren't defending anything and how much we'll scapegoat Africa or so called tradition to do so.

sizzla,
Sun 3 July 2011, 11:13 am