Teacher forcibly chops off student's hair

[Jaded]

HOUSTON (KTRK) -- A young girl says her identity was taken by a teacher with a pair of scissors.

The girl told us that while she was working on a project along with classmates, the teacher chopped off some of her hair.

Emily Garcia's hair is now a lot lighter and shorter, but not by choice.

The 14-year-old says that Wednesday, her math teacher at Grantham Academy, made good on a year-long threat to cut her hair because it was too long in her eyes. It came as a surprise for Emily who was frozen by the cut of the scissors.

"Then out of nowhere she cut it," Emily told Eyewitness News. "I started crying cause I didn't know what else to do."

"My daughter was in tears and the teacher was just laughing," said her mother Sarah Garcia.

Emily had never cut her hair and cannot comprehend why the teacher did what she did.

"I thought she was a teacher and wouldn't do something like that," she said.

Her mother does not want the teacher near her daughter ever again. Emily worries this hair losing incident could happen to someone else.

Aldine ISD tells us it's investigating the incident. Until that's complete, the teacher has been told not to come back to school.

http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=news/local&id=6131725

WTF?? Bitch teacher woulda been walking away with her scissors shoved up her ass if it were me. That's just fuckin crazy!

[ashdavus]

Too many teachers are like this. Had a teacher tell me that my son deserved being sexually harrassed in the restroom by another student because he took a breath mint from that kid. WTF??!! Stupid bitches, both of them.

[Unamused Cat]

Teacher is wrong.

[Nell]

What a bitch! When I was 5 my dad got remarried. My mom had never cut my hair since the day I was born so it reached almost to my knees. When my dad had us over the summer my stepmother told my dad we whined about the heat too much and gave me and my sister pixie cuts. Do you remeber pixie cuts? It's like as short as you can go without shaving your head. When my mom saw that she actually jumped on my stepmother and tried to beat her ass! Bet that teacher is glad she didn't screw with a mom like mine!

[KillBill20]

Well it does sound like the kid needed a haircut.

~Kyle

[Pete Bondurant]

This teacher should be placed in charge of all education in the United States. These children have far too much license. Make them pull up their trousers as well. They look like little whores.

[lisaznola]

http://www.click2houston.com/news/16211187/detail.html


"It's unique to me. It's what I'm known for," Emily said. "No one in school has hair like mine."

Her mother, Sara Garcia, braids Emily's hair every morning.

"It's never been trimmed," said Garcia. "Even as a baby, nothing."

"My friends ask, does it bother me?" said Emily. "I say, 'You get used to it.'"

As a Pentecostal, not cutting her hair part of Emily's religion.

I don't know about the religion part, but that teacher overstepped her boundries by a mile and a half.
Teachers are not allowed to do this, even if there is a dress code. There are procedures and just chopping some kids hair is not in there.

[Rotten Apple]

AS a Pentecostal?

Her mother had her haircut AND was wearing makeup...plus the girl was in pants. They aren't THAT religious.

Come on...its just hair and it is still freakishly long. The teacher shouldn't have cut it off, but stole her IDENTITY? JESUS, its not like she cut off her nose. Talk about overreacting.

My 11 year old sister has hair like this - but longer. I hate it. It gets trimmed, but not enough. Like this girl, the ends look HORRIBLE IMO. That teacher needed to hack of at least another foot. Who wants to be known as the girl with long hair? Its like being known as the girl with big tits. Do something else to make yourself stand out if it is that important to you.

I was not allowed to cut my hair as a child. When I did get it cut, it felt like I someone uncuffed me. It felt like sweet sweet freedom.

When my little sister finally cuts hers, I think she will feel the same.

[lisaznola]

Hey, at 14 your world can come to an end due to a zit.
:D
I have no doubt that the girl needed a hair cut, it had to have split ends from hell, and she had to be sitting on it all the time. I just have a real problem with the teacher going to that extreme. If it had been another kid, or the mom, or even an aunt I'd be less disturbed.
It just shows something about the character of the teacher, that she just up and cut the kid's hair. That is just way over stepping the boundries that should be between a teacher and a student.
It'd be like my boss walking up and deciding I needed a trim and just cutting away. I'd freak.
I don't know, it's just very strange that a teacher would do this.

[gprime]

IF this were a private school, and there were some sort of established rule covering this, or allowing for a teacher to individually impose such a policy, then I would be fine with it. But a quick search suggests the school is public. Therefore, this is completely unreasonable, and something over which the school should be bled dry. And this teacher should never allowed to teach again, at least in a public school.

[maryhaze]

AS a Pentecostal?

Her mother had her haircut AND was wearing makeup...plus the girl was in pants. They aren't THAT religious.

Come on...its just hair and it is still freakishly long. The teacher shouldn't have cut it off, but stole her IDENTITY? JESUS, its not like she cut off her nose. Talk about overreacting.

My 11 year old sister has hair like this - but longer. I hate it. It gets trimmed, but not enough. Like this girl, the ends look HORRIBLE IMO. That teacher needed to hack of at least another foot. Who wants to be known as the girl with long hair? Its like being known as the girl with big tits. Do something else to make yourself stand out if it is that important to you.

I was not allowed to cut my hair as a child. When I did get it cut, it felt like I someone uncuffed me. It felt like sweet sweet freedom.

When my little sister finally cuts hers, I think she will feel the same.

yes but it should be her choice as it was yours. not anyone else's. i loved my long hair & when my mom cut it, i felt violated. this teacher was so far out of bounds that i don't know where to start. if she was athletic & the teacher didn't like it, should she have the right to ground her??? no matter how it looks to outsiders, this was the girls decision, not that so-called teachers. JMO

[Rotten Apple]

yes but it should be her choice as it was yours. not anyone else's. i loved my long hair & when my mom cut it, i felt violated. this teacher was so far out of bounds that i don't know where to start. if she was athletic & the teacher didn't like it, should she have the right to ground her??? no matter how it looks to outsiders, this was the girls decision, not that so-called teachers. JMO


I never said the teacher was justified in cutting it. She should definitely be disciplined. I just think that claiming her identity was stolen and using religion as an excuse to blow the thing up into something that is media worthy is ridiculous. ESPECIALLY when it is obvious to me, a completely non-religious person, that they are not following alot of the other practices of the religion they are claiming.

And really how much did she cut off? It could not have been very much, she still has alot of those damaged ends left. She still is the girl with the long hair. I'm sure there aren't many other kids in that school with hair as long as hers. So how was her identity stolen?

The teacher overstepped her bounds, but really, in a world where teachers are having sexual relationships with their students, is this really all the hype the family is claiming? Plus I'm almost sure they are setting themselves up for a civil suit.

[gprime]

but really, in a world where teachers are having sexual relationships with their students, is this really all the hype the family is claiming?

This is much, much worse. Regarding the intercourse, it is based on consent, and is often a desired outlet that might otherwise not exist. In those cases, it is the parents, not students, getting worked up and pursuing legal action. In this case, the student failed to consent, and was thus functionally assaulted with a weapon. Accordingly, the student is among the legitimately outraged parties here calling for justice. So I wouldn't compare them, since one is clearly wrong. The difference is that I don't base my claim on which one that is on the puritanical standards of yesteryear.

[ashdavus]

This teacher should be placed in charge of all education in the United States. These children have far too much license. Make them pull up their trousers as well. They look like little whores.

And what would you propose they do with the teacher that condoned sexual harassment over a BREATH MINT? Give her a fucking nobel prize?!

[KillBill20]

This teacher should be placed in charge of all education in the United States. These children have far too much license. Make them pull up their trousers as well. They look like little whores.

Well if it helps... I laughed. :rolleyes:

~Kyle

[Athena]

I was not allowed to cut my hair as a child. When I did get it cut, it felt like I someone uncuffed me. It felt like sweet sweet freedom.


Amen. When I was 9, I worked and worked and worked on my mom to get my ears pierced. It was almost my birthday and we were flying back east, so she did it. But it wasn't even about the ear piercing. Chess, baby. I knew that the ear piercing would piss my dad off enough that he would be willing to take me to get my hair (that was down to my knees) cut, a fight he was previously unmoved to pick up on my behalf.

It worked like a charm. Manipulative? Perhaps. But I looked MUCH cuter going into 5th grade. :p

But, yeah, I agree with the general sentiment. These people need to lighten up. Sure, the teacher overstepped her bounds and the school is doing the right thing (from a liability standpoint, certainly), but people that attached to such long hair are kind of freakish. I know my mom was.

[HellbettieIX]

My dad having my hair cut into a "bowl" cut were probably the worst, ugh,I HATED it. I made a scene and all. I, as a parent would be quite livid about this one...damn i'd be in jail too (i'd totally send a mugshot, i'd send mine if i could find it lol)

[Dakota Valkyrie]

You see it so often - parents going into a major tizzy and actually making things worse for their kids. Com'on lady, comfort your kid, talk to the school, get the teacher dealt with, and move on.

Making a big tadoo of things that are minor in the scheme of life just makes "I'm a victim" thinking way too easy and is a disservice to your kid. Teach how to make wrongs right and be strong.

Dragging the media into it, making a big deal of your daughter's identity being stolen, putting out religion when convenient, and boo-hooing all over makes the trauma to your kid worse than it need to be.

[HellbettieIX]

You see it so often - parents going into a major tizzy and actually making things worse for their kids. Com'on lady, comfort your kid, talk to the school, get the teacher dealt with, and move on.

Making a big tadoo of things that are minor in the scheme of life just makes "I'm a victim" thinking way too easy and is a disservice to your kid. Teach how to make wrongs right and be strong.

Dragging the media into it, making a big deal of your daughter's identity being stolen, putting out religion when convenient, and boo-hooing all over makes the trauma to your kid worse than it need to be.

I sorta get ya there. Some people are just so much more emotional, they're not going to be able to stay quiet, ever. I still have nightmares about my hair being cut, i'm such a puss :o

[Dakota Valkyrie]

LOL You're not a puss.

I understand being upset - I have more than once marched into the school office in a tirade. I just made sure my kids understood they had been wronged and I would "stand up for them" BUT when the school took the appropriate actions, it was over. I expected them to learn how to handle such situations without reducing their lives to "victim status".

[Raq me darkly]

but people that attached to such long hair are kind of freakish.

That makes me a freak! :zzz:

I can see how that girl feels, when I was 14 my mom took me to her hair dresser and she "trimmed" off from my butt to my shoulders. I did cry. I can almost sit on the ends again.

The teacher had no right to do that, no matter how badly her hair needed a trim (and key to growing long healthy hair (http://www.longlocks.com/how-to-grow-long-hair.htm) is proper trimming). And when you have long hair like that, it is less in your eyes than bangs or shorter hair.

And, yes, she could stand to have a bit more removed and some good conditioning.

[Athena]

That makes me a freak! :zzz:



That's okay, though. We're all freaks, *ahem*, I mean, "friends" here. ;)

[Rotten Apple]

Ya'll I totally took my girl to get a haircut yesterday because of this thread.

She wants her hair long. She has one of those girls with the Rapunzel like hair in her class. That was her goal.

I took her to get the ends trimmed to keep it looking healthy - but mostly to keep her from getting attached to HAIR.

It was a total success. She strutted out of that kids haircut place with her lollipop and her hair "did" acting like she was the star of some makeover show.

It was funny.