Jamaican school now says 7-year-old girl with dreadlocks may attend

KINGSTON, Jamaica — Days after Jamaica’s supreme court ruled that a school may bar a 7-year-old because her parents declined to cut her dreadlocks, a school official said she would be permitted to attend class in September after all.

“There is no question as to the admittance of the child,” said the Rev. Alvin Bailey, chairman of the board of Kensington Primary School, located just outside Kingston. “From the outset, no decision was taken to bar the child from the school.”