The right of every child who is a citizen of Jamaica, to publicly funded tuition in a public educational institution at the pre-primary and primary levels Д®.

The right of every child to such measures of protection as are required by virtue of the status of being a minor or as part of the family, society and the State Д. The first claimant, the minorвЂ™s father and the second claimant, the minor by next friend and mother, pleaded that the schoolвЂ™s вЂњNo braids, no beads no locksвЂќ policy infringed the following constitutional and statutory rights of the minor child:ДЄ. The school maintained that the child was never actually barred from attending. An order was subsequently granted restraining the first and second defendants from denying the minorвЂ™s attendance at the school until the determination of the constitutional claim brought herein. By way of Notice of Application for Court Orders the parents of the minor sought an order restraining the defendants from denying the minorвЂ™s attendance to Kensington Primary School for the academic year commencing September 2018. Neither parent of the minor intimated to the school that there was a religious reason for the hairstyle, and the school did not alert the parents to the fact that religious exemptions could be granted. Upon asking, the reason given for the no locks policy was one regarding sanitation, health and safety, owing to past experiences at the school with lice and вЂњjunjuвЂќ (understood to mean fungus) infestation in students with locked hair. The mother of the minor was told that if she did not remove the minorвЂ™s locks or have them cut there was the possibility that the offer of a place at the school could be withdrawn. The mother then became aware of the schoolвЂ™s вЂno braids, no beads, no locking of hairвЂ™ policy, which was an unwritten but enforced rule. During an orientation session attended by the minor and her mother on or about Jthe mother was presented with a school rule handbook. In or around April 2018, the parents of the second claimant ZV, a minor, applied for a place at the Kensington Primary School, in the parish of St. Whether a decision as to a choice of personal expression, taken by a child and their family can be imposed on a school in contravention of school rule and policy. Whether the stated policy of Kensington Primary school of, вЂњNo braids, no beads, no locksвЂќ violated the constitutional rights of the claimant as pleaded.

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