Of course you can wash them; and people do. They probably have more access to the scalp than people normally do when shampooing.
What I don’t understand is what a teacher was doing spending so much time on a kid’s hair -taking them out and re-braiding them? . Wasn’t she supposed to be *teaching*?
[Wasn’t she supposed to be *teaching*?]
It’s pre-k. Not much instruction goes on beyond letters and numbers. Most of it is supervised play.
[Of course you can wash them]
Not according to what the black women I work with told me. They said they didn’t wash their hair until they take the braids out.