People cutting childrens hair with out permission

So true it almost makes me want to go to the school hold the teacher down and give her a buzz cut then when she starts to cry about it tell her well you had food in your hair so we had to do that. I agree 100 percent that this teacher needs to be removed from the school and made to never be able to teach again.

I wonder what kind of food that gets in your hair that you need to cut it off for? Oil is enough to get bubble gums off. Now why go that extreme unless if it's a super glue. But then again super glues aren't food.

I think with older kids like teens you can sort of shift the hair stuff to them but even so, unless my kid came to me and asked me, I would go nuts on anybody else, including a relative lol. Your mom should have shown you pictures of the cut, pictures explain things so much better than just words when you're little

I have to laugh about you getting your hair cut cause I had the same thing happen to me when I was younger I wanted a pixie cut and my mother said no so my grand mother took me to get it done. I was so sad when it was all done I didnt realize that a pixie cut is super short and makes you look like a boy I cried for hours. I can only imagine that little girl being as upset when she got home and seen how short her hair was.

So true it really makes me sad to think of the poor little girl and how she wont be able to touch her long hair any more. I dont think the teacher was thinking when she did what she did. She was angry and that is the reason she needs removed from all schools across the world. If she let her anger get the best of her to cut the childs hair what will she do next time she gets angry.

I agree with you. I know that there are circumstances that require the teacher to cut a child's hair but the reasons she gave the mother are not acceptable to me. She had food in her hair then send her home and let her mother bath her. You never cut a childs hair because of that. I could understand if it was gum that was in the child's hair but it was not gum. And the other reason she gave was because she was taking her hair up and down is no reason either. She is a special needs child and the teacher is a special needs teacher she should know that this child has special needs and its her job to make that child feel safe in the school and make that child comfortable enough to learn, not to mention I know people that mess with their hair and they only do it when they are nervous or stressed what would make this child stressed to have to play with her hair for comfort?

That's right. And since she noticed that the child was acting that way, she should have notified her parents. Indeed, that could have been a manifestation that she was nervous or tense and they could have addressed that problem. And, even if it were a gum, still, she should call her mom to tell her she's cutting out some hair because there's some gum stuck on it. It's a good thing the child did not have any issues on some people touching her hair. Or else, she would have really thrown a fit.

No matter what a child has done I do not feel that a teacher has the right to cut the childs hair. When I was younger I got gum stuck in my hair and had to cut it out. I can understand something like that but for just having food in her hair aor because she is taking her hair down is not a reason to cut her hair.

The only person who has the right is the child's parent or parents. Period. I know some people live by the whole 'village raising a child' thing and they let everyone and their relatives and neighbors and whatever make decisions for their child like cut their hair and choose their clothes and decide they can't have ice cream but I don't think it's very wise to allow so many other people to have that kind of control. It's hardly healthy for your child either. Children learn about appropriate behavior through what is considered appropriate for others in regards to them. Teachers are authority figures but they do NOT have the right to do something that ONLY a parent should be consenting to!

To me its a form of control on the child and its really like abuse as well. If I was the mother I would not rest till that teacher was no longer able to teach any where in the world. We dont need people like that teaching our kids we need people that are there to protect them not hurt them.

The child does have down syndrome but even that does not give the teacher any right to do what she did. I would probably be in big trouble to if it was my child. There would be no way that the teacher would not be getting a hair cut as well.