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A Catholic school has been plunged into a race row after a furious mother claimed that her daughter was banned from the playground and the canteen because of her braided hair.
Jade Samuels alleged that her daughter was barred from parts of the school in a series of angry tweets.
Teachers at Bishop Challoner Catholic College in Birmingham are accused of deciding that the student's hair was 'inappropriate' because she had braided a heart on the side of her head.
Ms Samuels said: 'My child is banned from the school playground/canteen for her hair, its neatly braided in a natural colour, I gave them a lesson on the history of black womens hairs cultural significance of braiding, they chose violence, @BishopChalloner has a racist hair policy!!!'.
Jade Samuels said her daughter had been isolated from other students as a result of the heart pattern braided into her hair
The Birmingham school strongly denied that it did not allow students to wear braids after the mother accused them of having a 'racist' hair policy
In a second tweet, she added: 'Just for clarity, the issue the school has is with the heart, as if that makes it any less bad'.
Bishop Challoner Catholic College insisted that pupils are allowed to wear their hair in braids.
Replying to other tweets from supportive social media users, Ms Samuels said she was 'LIVID' and that her daughter 'has to sit on an isolated table from everyone else at breaks because she's broken their racist uniform policy!'
She added that she had spoken to a teacher but she did not believe that the school were prepared to change their policy.
'I've had a conversation with the
