<p>We too live in a very white, conservative community. As a H.S. freshman, our son elected to get dreadlocks. He checked with the school first to make sure they had no policy against it. We did not make a big deal about it. His peers loved them, his grandfather hated them. In less than a year he chose to get rid of them. </p>
<p>Choose your battles, parents. Our son has been a stellar student, an all around good person, and is off to a great college this fall. We don’t expect him to “go wild” in college because we have not laid down the law on inconsequential things like hair.</p>