A Texas mom says her 11-year-old daughters long, thick curls got her booted from her cheerleading squad.

Woodlands Elite Cheer Company insisted that Makayla Fallow straighten her hair for competitions, her mother, Jenny Fallow, told ABC 13. The mom said that the necessary heat and chemicals would destroy Makaylas hair, but cheer officials didnt seem to get it.

Makayla is biracial, and her mother says all-star cheer director Kevin Tonner told her, I know other mixed kids and you can put relaxer in her hair.

Fallow says thats just not true. He doesnt understand her hair, she told the Houston Chronicle.

Tonner told ABC News that cheer teams earn points by having uniform hair and makeup. Mothers and coaches of Makaylas team had decided on a straight hairstyle for the squad.

But Makayla wasnt the only curly-haired girl on the team for whom the policy posed a problem. 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. One mom gave in and straightened her daughters hair, and one other cheerleader ended up leaving the team, Fallow said.

But Tonner argues the real reason Makayla was kicked off the team wasnt because of her hair, but because of her mothers alleged bad attitude and refusal to discuss a compromise.

It wasnt about hair we dont want this negativity on our team, he told ABC 13.

Since administrative staff were the ones to make the decision, Fallow didnt lay any blame on her daughters coaches, who she called amazing in her Houston Chronicle interview.

Makayla is very sad. She misses her team, she said.

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