So what did the school decide to do?
After DeAndre first rejected the idea of having his hair cut, the school heard his complaint and had a meeting. At the meeting, they decided that no expectations to the rules be made and if Mr.Arnold wanted to attend his graduation ceremony, the locks have got to be cut.
Now just to clarify, the school officials did not say that dreadlocks were forbidden, but the length of them was the problem and was not in line with their hairstyle policy that had been in place since the school was founded. But DeAndre understandably saw this as being unfair and wanted an expectation to be made, seeing that he was a good student and a local member of the community.