A charter school in Tulsa, Oklahoma, is under fire after officials there reportedly sent a seven-year-old African-American girl home from school because of her hairstyle. The Deborah Brown Community School bans “hairstyles such as dreadlocks, afros, mohawks, and other faddish styles.” In a statement, a school official said the girl’s father “elected to choose a forbidden hairstyle” for his daughter. Terrance Parker said the dispute forced him to move his daughter Tiana to a different school. Tiana Parker, age seven, spoke to local news station Fox 23.

Reporter: “Why are you so sad?”

Tiana Parker: “Because they didn’t like my dreads. I think that they should let me have my dreads.”