Jenny Fallaw says her daughter, Makayla, was ordered to straighten her hair if she wanted to remain on the Woodlands Elite Cheer team.
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– A mother in Tomball, Texas is speaking out, claiming her daughter was kicked off the cheerleading squad because of her curly hair. He also noted that Makayla would only have to straighten her hair during competitions.
Fallaw said she met with team officials saying the “treatment” would “destroy her hair”, but they refused to allow her back on the team.
Jenny Fallaw says she plans to send her daughter to another cheering company.
Tanner added that not all of Woodland Elite’s teams require their cheerleaders to straighten their hair, but that Makayla’s team recently voted on the policy.
Makayla’s mother, Jenny, said it was the first time she had heard of such a thing. Straightening her curly hair? “She misses her team. I felt like I might make my daughter feel like her hair is not good enough because she’s not like other girls”. Two other mothers did not want to straighten their daughters’ hair, but the Woodlands Elite general manager decided Tuesday that the girls could not compete if they kept their curls, Fallow told the Houston Chronicle. Well, 11-year-old Texan Makayla Fallaw’s coily mane has been deemed something else ridiculous: unfit for a cheerleading competition. We were trying to find a compromise and a happy medium.
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Kevin Tonner said that the facility was willing to negotiate with the mother to keep the girl on the squad, but neither side could compromise a solution. Additionally, the team didn’t like Jenny’s attitude about the whole situation and her unwillingness to compromise. “She was very defensive”, Tonner told ABC 13. Tonner said that there is need to understand that there is makeup for the sport in which one performs.
