Teacher cuts off first grader's braid, charged with disorderly conduct

[BostonMaria]

Ugh I'm so disgusted

The teacher needs to start considering a new career. One that doesn't involve children or small animals.

 

[Kellum]

The teacher should not have a job. Her reaction to that is a red flag of what she may do in the future. If I was the parent; I would probably be charged with assault. I would have straight beat the teacher until my child's plait grew back!! :hardslap::hardslap:You don't put your hands on someones child like that and make an example out of them. That is wrong on so many levels.

 

[january noir]

I saw the little girl and her mother on tv last night. She is adorable!

 

[*Muffin*]

Ugh...so disgusting and hateful. Can't say I haven't heard it before, though. My grandmother (back in the 60's) used to keep all of her sons hair long, and one day her eldest son came home with his hair all hacked off because the teacher thought it was "inappropriate for a boy to have long hair". My grandmother was 38-hot! From what she told me, she ran in the school with a pair of scissors, burst in the teachers classroom and told her "You cut my kids hair off, huh? Now it's YOUR turn!" She said by the time she got through with her, the teacher was crying. I must ask if she actually did cut the teacher's hair off or not. Grandma don't play .

 

[HeavenlySkies]

Mannnnnnnnnnnn I'm thinking it's a fake braid but that wench cut off some real long hair on a BLACK kid sheeit I would be frustrated about getting my shoe stuck in her a$$!

 

[destine2grow]

I have a daughter and I cannot picture her coming home & telling me the teacher cut her braids b/c she was playong with them and then said what you going tell your mama. Let me jusyt say I would have snapped. I would have made her swallow those scissors after my daughter cut her hair, then I would have said what are you going to do next time. I feel like this there is no way in hell I am going to let anyone do something to my child that I wouldn't do. I birthed them!

 

[Daughter]

HAYELL NO!!!!!

Only read the OP and saw the video. Man I'm angry and that's not even my kid. I'd be taking that teacher to COURT.

 

[KatKronicles]

Well, better her child than mine. My child would be in a foster home had she cut my childs hair. So im glad each of us has our own unique experiences.

 

[TrustMeLove]

For the people giving this lady a slap on the hand.

WHAT if your boss found your hair in hand disease distracting? At meetings you are always moving your hands through your hair or feelings your twist eetc....

WHat if your boss put a hat on your head and said stop touching your hair it's distracting? Or decided to cut your ponytail because the way you are swinging it is distracting?

SERIOUSLY! Would you give that a pass?

One human being in charge of another... One human being violating another.

Just because one is a child and the other one is an adult doesn't make it right or acceptable.

You would take legal action. If a person you knew put their hands in your head half of y'all would be ready to cut their fingers off because it's UNACCEPTABLE.

I hope this mother slams the school district and the teacher. THat teacher is unfit to teach. THe saftey of the students has been compromised. She can't control her anger...what's next?

 

[BlkOnyx488]

I think the Teacher should have to sit there and get a hair cut from the little girl see how that B**ch like that!!!

 

[orchidgirl]

If the teacher can get frustrated to the point of getting a scissors and cutting the child's hair, whats next? Definitely the teacher should have gotten some type of suspension and go to some type of management program, to deal with her issues. Breath in ...and out...10 times. Crazy...!

 

[OhmyKimB]

I just know I prolly would of had a disorderly conduct ticket as well if my child came home and told me that.

 

[PPGbubbles]

OH hell naw!!!!!

I would beat that B down over my lil girl


I would put her in front of ppl and show her how it feels to be humuliated :gotroasted:

That was that baby's hair!!! And she is going to remember that for the rest of her life. If that teacher has that much of a temper and gets "frustrated" maybe she shouldnt be teaching and these are FIRST graders! all they know how to do is annoy ppl.

 

[SEMO]

I think the teacher's behavior is inexcusable. I wore braids with beads like that all the time growing up. I didn't play with them in class but I did love to occasionally shake them around just to hear the clicking sound. It would have totally traumatized me if one of my teachers had cut off one of my braids.

This little girl's school career has barely begun and already she is going to have bad associations with teachers. I know the teacher was frustrated but as an adult you have to have more self control than mere children. And the other children in her class may have laughed at the time, but I know that inside they are afraid if they'll be the next one assaulted and publicly humiliated.

Also, they should have showed the teacher's picture and said her name (even is she wasn't available for comment). She humiliated that little girl in front of her peers (moving her to a different class doesn't take the stigma away). She was bold enough to do it and ask the little girl what she was going to tell her momma. I think she should then have to face the pubic (of her peers) with everyone knowing her face and what she did.

 

[tomnikids3]

This takes nerves of steel, but i would be arrested by the time i got thru. I know violence is not the answer but how does someone have the right to cut someones childs hair and think there would be no repercussions. Beat down time I have to say.

 

[Almaz]

I would have beat this woman to a pulp and shaved her head. Sorry I am not nice about those things.

Don't touch my child. If you cut my child's hair then I will cut you

Pure and simple. At this point I am not worried about spending a few hours in jail because I would have went stone *** crazy and got ninja on her

 

[LoveLiLi]

These schools are going to have to issue stiffer punishments in cases like this if they value the safety of their teachers.

If I knew a teacher was going to receive a slap on the wrist for humiliating my baby and cutting her hair then I would cut the teacher's hair and whoop that @ss as soon as I saw her. Some half @ssed apology and a fine won't do.

 

[nysister]

And yet another reason why my child will be home schooled. That teacher is sick. I wouldn't want to runt he risk of the my child running into the growing percentage of "teachers" that are stark raving mad.

 

[kasey]

Wow...This story is very disturbing.

Why didn't the teacher just send a note home to the mother asking her not to put beads in the child's hair and in the meantime have the student reassigned to a different classroom for the day. Wouldn't that have been the professional thing to do? I mean I'm sure the teacher is college educated and likely had to have gone through coursework that covered teaching children.

"Grown" folks who are in the position of authority do strange things. Did the teacher not think the mom would get angry? I'm basically "scared" of kids--meaning I don't touch or say anything to them that could be misinterpreted as being abusive.

Additionally, cutting off a girl's braid and throwing it in the trash is the kind of event that can scar a kid for life. It doesn't matter if its hair growing from the scalp or an extension braid.

 

[kblc06]

I'm sure that sound would be annoying to some people (I don't think it was), but you are teaching 1st graders who are 6 and 7 years old?! WTH else do you expect them to do besides annoying crap, at least to some extent. They're just being children and if you don't like children, then teaching is the wrong field for you

 

[Bene]

I'm sure that sound would be annoying to some people (I don't think it was), but you are teaching 1st graders who are 6 and 7 years old?! WTH else do you expect them to do besides annoying crap, at least to some extent. They're just being children and if you don't like children, then teaching is the wrong field for you

Pretty much. That's why I don't have anything to do with kids.

I don't think I would have cut the kid's hair off, but I certainly would've sent a note home to her mother to ask her to do something less distracting with her kid's hair, no beads. Or at least asked permission to put a hat on her head. Small children have the attention span of gnats.

 

[simplyhair]

And yet another reason why my child will be home schooled. That teacher is sick. I wouldn't want to runt he risk of the my child running into the growing percentage of "teachers" that are stark raving mad.

I totally agree about homeschooling. Issues like this, is the VERY reason why mine are home schooled by me (4 boys).

 

[Southernbella.]

I woulda called Pookie 'nem, and that teacher woulda woke up just like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFlEqvGIRCE

 

[*Happily Me*]

wow

 

[melodies815]

I'm speechless....


cj

 

[Ms Lala]

I just knew it was an extension until I saw the video, she really cut that child's hair!!! The teacher is in the wrong profession because children are going to do stuff like that. She is the adult and is responsible for exercising proper judgement. I would have contacted the girls mother, she had no right to do this. I remember my mother went up to the school and had a fit when a teacher threw my lunch away, she probably would have hurt somebody over something like this.

 

[wannabelong]

My husband would have to get some bail money together to get me out of jail, because I would have waited for the teacher after school cut her hair and then opened up a can of whoop arse.

 

[nakialovesshoes]

The idea that this teacher didn't cut much hair has come up. Even the idea that the kid may have been doing it on purpose has surfaced. Some think that this isn't a race issue. I don't know if the teacher was white or black & really it doesn't matter to me.

Even if the child was doing it to annoy the teacher. Even if the teacher is actually black, too. What would happen to a child if they decided to maliciously cut a teacher's hair in front of the entire class because they were annoyed with the teacher?

This teacher didn't just cut this child's hair. She called her to the front of the room. For what reason? To embarrass her? To degrade her? And she even spoke disrespectfully of the child's mother.

How could anyone try & downplay this & say it's not as bad as it looks? So she didn't cut the braid to the scalp. What about the humiliation/degredation of her actions? If she is white, then it most certainly opens the door for the race card because for me, the first thing that comes to mind is how slaves were publicly beat to teach other slaves a lesson.

And I know for some it isn't that deep but I'm sure this teacher has had more severe behavior problems in her classroom than a child making noises with her beads. Were her punishments for those offenses as harsh as this one? Surely not.

If it were me, I don't know what I would've done but I don't think this should be taken lightly. This is very serious & I can only hope that justice is served.

Off my soapbox now...

 

[bella gee]

Dear Father God,

When I have children, please God do not let anything like this ever happen. You know my heart Lawd....you know that your child will go SLAM OFF, if somebody did something like this to my baby.

Amen.

 

[katblack]

This teacher must have taken child development courses when trying to get her degree to be in the education field? How did her past action help in the development of a little 6-7yr old child?
I can tell you one thing, whether SHE quits or is fired, her future/reputation in eduction is just about over. Hell the fact that she couldn't even make a statement on television to save her @$$ isn't a good sign either.