According to abcnews.go.com, Texas mother, Jenny Fallaw wasn’t jumping for joy on Nov.7 when she heard that her daughter’s curly hair had kept her from staying on an elite cheerleading team.

Fallaw said, “I felt like it might make my daughter feel like her hair is not good enough because she is not like other girls”, according to abcnews.go.com.

As stated on abcnews.go.com, Fallaw said she met with officials from Woodlands Elite Cheer Center to explain why she didn’t want her daughter to wear the hairstyle required for competition.  Fallaw said, “it would destroy her hair, so I wanted to explain to them my reasoning.”

“I don’t think what the coach did was right… it’s her hair, she can’t change it,” said cheer team member, Ashley Pena.

According to abcnews.go.com, Kevin Tonner, all-star director for the center, said that hair was not the main issue and that Fallaw’s argumentative attitude and inability to consider any compromise was why they asked her and her daughter to leave.

As stated on abcnews.go.com, Tonner said that “it’s not accurate, the team has a uniform and the team has a hairstyle… to do a straight ponytail when you compete. My wife is a hairstylist. We showed her how to straighten her hair, without damaging it,” Tonner said.

The reason makeup and hair is uniform is to try and win as many points as possible in a cheerleading event.  Makayla would have been required to straighten her hair only during competitions and not during practices, according to abcnews.go.com.

As stated on abcnews.go.com, Tonner said that “it seems so little or small to anyone else, [but] uniformity on that is half the battle”.