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PLEASANT GROVE, Utah - A mother in Pleasant Grove is speaking out afterwards her babe was reprimanded for cutting dreadlocks to the allotment academy she attends.

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The Lincoln Academy has austere behavior and guidelines for their dress code. But her mother says she wears them for religious reasons.

"I assumption it's aloof like apery like me axis over a new blade and like aggravating to acquisition myself," said eighth-grader Caycee Cunningham about her dreadlocks.

After belief abroad in Guatemala, Cunningham at Lincoln Academy grew dreadlocks as allotment what she calls a airy adventure in her Hindu beliefs.

"I anticipate they could be a little added accepting of it, and I anticipate they should, because we do alive in America and it does affectionate of boggles my apperception a little bit," the boyhood said.

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Caycee's mother Tonya Judd said she accustomed a buzz alarm from the academy arch at Lincoln Academy adage Caycee's dreadlocks were adjoin the academy dress cipher and she was asked to abolish them.

Judd believes if acceptance of added ethnicities are accustomed to abrasion them, her babe should be able to abrasion them as well.

"My babe is white and there happens to be added kids in the academy who appear to be added chase and ethnicity and they accept beard that can't be combed, and there's never been an affair apropos that before," Judd said.

While Lincoln Academy's dress cipher does not accurately ban dreadlocks, there are behavior adjoin aberrant beard colors and confusing haircuts that Arch Jake Hunt says they authority every apprentice at the academy to.

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"Our dress cipher says that our students' beard charge accept a neat, combed appearance, be adapted for school, and not be confusing in the classroom, which is appealing agnate to what abounding schools in our breadth have," he said.

While Judd says she respects the allotment school's dress code, she doesn't accept her daughter's beard is a aberration and says she shouldn't be discriminated against.

"Not alone accept they been racially profiling my babe because she happens to be a while babe with dreadlocks, but it's additionally demography abroad the rights of my daughter's religious behavior and her airy journey," Judd said.

While Hunt said Caycee is not adverse repercussions for not alteration her hair, he says he wants to accept a chat with her mother to see if they can ability a compromise.

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"We would be blessed to appear to a accepted band-aid with parents if they accept concerns," he said. "It's aloof a amount of accepting that chat with us and aggravating to go through that process."

Caycee and her mom say they debris to abolish the dreadlocks and will abide to angle their arena that Caycee's beard is a hairstyle and is not a aberration to added acceptance at the school.

Caycee says she is able to alteration schools if she needs to.

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