First-Grade Teacher Cuts Off Student's Braid

I bet she'll only have to be told ONCE now not to play with her hair.

Trust me...I'm from Jersey....If that teacher would have done that to my daughter she not only would have gotten the brakes beat off her behind, but I would have placed her in a headlock and proceeded to allow my daughter to give her a buzz cut and ask her now tell me what her attorney is going to say when she got home?

Much as I like the buzz-cut idea for this, I simple lifetime revoking of her teacher's license should do nicely. If she'd cut off all the girl's hair, I'd be all for the buzz-cut and maybe more! I don't care how bad some kids' grades may be, teacher incompetence is no excuse for some people trying to implement the Fourth Reich(starting with school uniforms) in our school system!

OMG, I am so upset that this teacher was not arrested for child abuse. Physical and emotional. I know that something that embarrassing to a child can scar them for life and permanently their self esteem. I NEVER reply to any stories I read, as what I have to say doesn't matter, as its already over and done with. I really think this so called teacher needs psychiatric care and never be allowed around any kids, I am sickened!

I am VERY UPSET about this! This is something that will affect this child for years and years to come. I know because I've had a teacher wrap masking tape around my head when I was in 2nd grade. It was ridiculous. I'm over 50 and still remember that mess! I would not let this go. Why move the child out of the class. The teacher should be moved out of the class! For gosh sakes what is wrong with this picture!!!??

I have to agree! Obviously this teacher is not cut out to handle the texture of this job. Sorry for her... but too bad. The emotional scars to this child will last a life time.
At the very least, a public ~humble ~ apology should be made
1) in from of all the class
2) in a school forum
3) In a public apology.
No crap either, there should be NO justifications for her behavior, doesn't matter how 'stressed' she is/was wrong is wrong. What message did she send to all the children.. If you are stressed you can just say 'I'm sorry and all goes away'? Nah, apologize and move on down the road Forgiveness is just as important a lesson a injustice.. make something good come from this sad event.

I think the teacher should not be allowed to teach and her licenses should be revoked.

This teacher should lose her license. She does not have the temperment to be in a classroom with young children. I would be afraid of what she will do the next time she becomes "frustrated".

I agree, that should not have been done. The teacher should have been arrested for "Aggrivated Assault." I'm quite sure that the child was traumatized; and will probable be as such for a long time. Possibly the child will need therapy as a result of the teacher's INSANE behavior. Although the teacher apologized, that was not enough. The teacher should be required to pay for the child's therapy. That child will NEVER forget that incident. Odds are the child may have some difficulty in school for a long time. Although the teacher may have been frustrated, (SICK), she should have asked for help with her problem. If the newscaster/reporter was able to find that teachers were frustrated, the school corporation as well as the teacher knew. All should be held accountable and should get that child help. "Kudos" to the mother. In some places such an action would have resulted in turmoil.

Number 1- That is one of the prettiest girls I have ever seen!
Number 2- I can see the teacher must have been frustrated with that hair playing, but it would have been better if she had obtained a nice ribbon and tied the girl's hair into a pony tail and written an explanatory note to the parents.

Id have to hear what the girl said and did before hand, she might have a justified reason to chop her braid off. It's rediculous how such a minor problem makes it on the internet's front page, go look into something worth researching, like the congo war, or helping homeless people off the streets. Face it, we have all had worse abuse than a quick cry and a piece of missing hair.

Katie is clearly an idiot!!! This was a CHILD; additionally, the teacher had absolutely NO RIGHT WHATSOVER to cut that little girl's hair. If I were the childs Momma, I'd be hightailing it an attorney and filing suit!

She would not have had to make an apology to my child or family. I would have taken my clippers to school and cut her hair. I am a firm believer in an eye for an eye. People should be willing to suffer the consequences for their actions. STOP BLAMING IT ON SOMETHING / SOMEONE ELSE !

What an idiotic incident for the media and police to be involved with. This is strictly between the school and parent. Use a little judgement.

I know that teachers get stressed - but so do you and I and the postman and the dog next door - yet nothing justifies destroying a head of hair. It is personal and this teacher is in real need of psychiatric counseling (or a few days in jail) if she can't hold herself together while working with our children. Shame on the school district for not finding a way to reprimand this teacher! Next year, maybe she'll punch a kid in the stomach or worse.

My son has a similar jerk of a teacher, who bullies the kids but is really sweet (yuck) to parents after school - when she isn't on her cell phone with her mother, which is when a parent is nothing but an annoyance. Seriously, some teachers should work anywhere but the classroom!

If I ever hear another college student say they're majoring in education as something to "fall back on," I think I will go postal. Dang it, I want teachers that want to be in the classroom, not those who want to be elsewhere.

SConey, i am in total agreement with you! i am orrigianally from the point pleasent area and i can say i may be young now but when i have children and anyone messes with them i may act as youve sugested!

Katie...you are a bit** and obviously do not have children. If you do, I feel worse for them then the girl in the story. You and this teacher are definitely cut from the same cloth >:P As for me, if this happened to either of my children, I would want that teacher removed immediately and her head shaved, all with the promise of candy afterward.

I think if something that small made the teacher go and cut a childs braid off she does not need to be a teacher.I pray she does not have a child becasue I would worry about her abusing her children. The school needs to step up and doing something to that teacher so she does not do anyhting worse and also so other teachers do not do what that teacher does.Children are important and how we treat and teach them now will determine how they will treat us when we are older.That is not her child and she had no right to touch the childs hair or any other part of the child. God bless the mother for having the strenght to do the right thing and Godbless the little girl

WHAT IS NEXT? CHILD TALKING LETS CUT OUT HER TONGUE!