New Jersey school district to shun events with referee who forced wrestler to cut dreadlocks

  • 📰 washingtonpost
  • ⏱ Reading Time:
  • 1 sec. here
  • 2 min. at publisher
  • 📊 Quality Score:
  • News: 4%
  • Publisher: 72%

Education Education Headlines News

Education Education Latest News,Education Education Headlines

The incident involving the referee, Alan Maloney, and a 16-year-old high school athlete is under investigation by the New Jersey Division on Civil Rights.

 

Thank you for your comment. Your comment will be published after being reviewed.
Please try again later.

MadVet2000 Then he should have forfeit d game who they gey AL fake ass civil rites B

Eugene_Scott How would this 'shun' policy work? Do the schools get notified as to who will be judges? If they skip the tourney, do they forfeit all their matches? Weird decision by the school board.

If there are no rules in sports (wrestling) specifically applying to hair, then this is more about race than dreadlocks!

PierreAtlas Naked racism.

All the adults in attendance should have refused to let him cut his hair. The adults failed.

The whole conference should in solidarity , lest this assault happen to one of theirs. standtogether

Shame on everyone who participated on this horrible incident.

Cut that nasty mess off. Gross turd locks. Looks better without them. Should thank the ref for improving his appearance.

There are quite a few key points missing in this story. First, what rule was he enforcing and second was this rule enforced in the past?

Good

Nice move brhschiefs let's avoid the abuser instead of work to get him fired. David C. Cappuccio Jr. (On the ethics committee...) & buena regional school board; protecting racist refs like the catholic church protects pedophile priests.

Why did the kid not put a wrap on his head

As well they should. All arbitrary rules with no concrete basis for their existence should be abolished. Arbitrary rules allow someone to express their preference while infringing on another's civil rights.

Such a shame! No one embracing differences anymore? The United States of America! Shall we remind that ref and everyone trying to divide the US to re-read the name of your country OUT LOUD: “UNITED” States. There is nothing UNITED in that Divisive attitude! Step up AMERICA!

Was it culturally appropriate for that kid to have locks? Perhaps the Ref is a SJW hero.

theresamax Good! That was really a crappy thing to do! They shouldn’t allow him to referee at all.

Why didn’t this young mans coach take a stronger stand? Where were all the adults? The ref is a putz at best and a racist at worst but the coach wasn’t there for his student athlete!

I’d like to know what every adult in this pic/wrestler’s orbit was told and why they did not speak up against the ref’s decision. WHY DO ADULTS CONTINUE TO FAIL OUR CHILDREN.

Wtf does shun mean ... New Jersey is a different kind of different

A quote from a school board member, 'he's done working with our district...' Shun is not entirely accurate. Something like this is way bigger than a series of stories. Please try and be accurate. We are counting on you. It's important...

The rules are the rules.

A not so wise man once said, “you’re fired”...

As it should

Why does he even still have a job? Discrimination is plain sight. Does this mean all girl wrestlers should cut their hair too?

The ref should be barred from events that this district is attending. This is backwards.

The lad was not forced to cut his hair.

realDonaldTrump said cutting AndrewJohnson hair was justified because the high school wrestler... is a HillaryClinton fan is a HillaryClinton backer and a Obama backer NFHS_Org ncaawrestling GOP NancyPelosi nytimes latimes CNN AP HuffPost ABC CBSNews FoxNews

She gave the worst cut I’ve ever seen, and it appears that she enjoyed it 👎🏾

Schools have always had dress codes. The safety of the wrestlers is also a part of the rules of the sport. . NJ is loaded with leftist cowards. Who cave at any bad press.

Love how THAT is the solution rather than terminate the referee who has previously made multiple questionable remarks

This broke my heart!

Eugene_Scott Referee was suspended three days ago according to reports. What happened?

Racismo escrotos desumanos...

Zzzzzzzzzz

Ref following rules. Another instance of leftist FakeNews changing narrative & getting their mindless sheep worked up. nj

This guy had dread's that went completely around his head down to his chin. What kind of an idiot parent let's their kid look like that? In order to wrestle he had the choice of looking like a dipshit human mop or cut it and he wisely chose a haircut. This isn't an issue of race

Fire this scissor happy idiot!

Bar that referee for ever

Eugene_Scott So let me get this straight. The school won’t attend events that the racist referee officiates.. 🤔 Seems to me there is another possible solution.

Who cares?

Is long hair a safety thing?

This referee still has a job? WTF

Why did you say that the student was praised for his commitment to teamwork? There was literally like ONE person who Said that (and you included his tweet). thousands more rightfully called out this disturbing act of assault on a black teenager.

First I heard of this. Why was her hair cut. Personally think dreadlocks are ugly n disgusting, but in America, she has the RIGHT to wear her hair as she pleases - right?

Shameful.... Ref should be fired

Dreadlocks is a racist term. Refer to his as locks

That coach and the parents of that kid did a real injustice to the kid by allowing him to break standard wrestling rules. It’s like crime you can ignore bad behavior in your kids but cops won’t.

Why is he not barred from ever refereeing again? Really he should be in jail for a hate crime! That young wrestler will remember this violation every time he looks in the mirror

Why is he still employed

It is NOT OK that our children are discriminated against in this manner, when they are just trying to get an education and participate in a high school sports program. Keep the faith young man.

Demonstrates the inconsistencies and power of game/match officials/referees. Raised a wrestler, amazed at some of the calls/noncalls seen at matches.

Big fuckin deal. They better be ready to pay out a nice lawsuit

All of the adults involved let this young man down. The coaches, parents, all are at fault. The entire team led by the coach should have stood up to the (late arriving, did not do his job) referee.

And who was Edie Scissorhand taking orders from?

What was done to this boy was assault, plain and simple. They should be charged as such. I hope the parents sue the pants off every person involved.

Needs to be removed! PBP!

What is the rule about long hair?

Good

Why does this “referee” still have a job?

Very disappointing,what?

Good.Disgusting.

The referee should be given a medal for applying the rules to everyone regardless of race. Well done. Keep up the good work.

“Shun”?

🖕The Man

What what?$!!!

Why is the referee still being allowed to work at any match. TrumpShutdown

Good

Following the rules is now a problem.

Easier to fire the referee and charge him with assault.

We have summarized this news so that you can read it quickly. If you are interested in the news, you can read the full text here. Read more:

 /  🏆 95. in EDUCATİON

Education Education Latest News, Education Education Headlines

Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.

New Jersey school district holds emergency meeting after black wrestler was forced to cut his dreadlocksAfter a referee forced a black varsity wrestler to cut his dreadlocks, a New Jersey school district decided it will not send its sports teams to any events where that referee is officiating. What does a white woman with scissors have to do with dreads? Not a dam thing!! Why is this person still permitted to referee? That should be the question. It was the rules. Only reason this is a story is because he is black. Thanks for dividing America
Source: cnnbrk - 🏆 393. / 55 Read more »