I have to side with the teacher on this one.

jehovahs witness protection: I have to side with the teacher on this one.

If that was my daughter, there might now be a teacher with a large bald spot at that school.

That is friggin' assault. There are documented ways of handling disruptive students.

R.A.Danny: That is friggin' assault. There are documented ways of handling disruptive students.

They'll send a kid who brings a plastic butter knife to school with his lunch to Gitmo. And this lady attacks a kid with scissors? Real nice.

CheetahOlivetti: And I don't see how hair-twirling could be that disruptive.

I'm assuming she was clicking the beads on something.

Still, IMHO teacher should have gotten out a big rubber band or a ribbon and tied all the braids up on top of the kid's head. Make an impact, maybe people laugh, but no permanent harm done.

Same with that Ojibwe kid in Ontario where the teacher cut his hair because she thought he couldn't see, she should have just put his bangs into a ponytail and called it a day.

That said, when I was in school back in Japan, if a guy wouldn't cut his hair to regulation for long enough, the teacher would buzz cut them practically bald (shorter than the official allowed hair, which was merely short). Girls would get a bad bowl cut.

These days I'm pretty sure that's not allowed, though.

Rule Number One: You don't touch the kids.
Rule Number Two: You farking DO NOT touch the kids.

The teacher should not be working with children if she freaks out over a little girl playing with her hair. Sure it's a stressful job, sure teachers are underpaid and over worked, but damn it- have an herbal tea or something- calm the fark down!

If the child was distracting the other students, send her to the principal's office; you never touch the kids if you want to keep the job and stay out of jail.

Wow...this teacher isn't going to last very long.

Good thing she wasn't tapping her fingers on the desk

jerry2a: Good thing she wasn't tapping her fingers on the desk

That's not as bad as the time she caught a kid masturbating in the school library.

A teacher once cut off my penis because I wouldn't stop playing with it in class, so I'm really getting a kick out of these replies.

The school can discipline the teacher by cutting off her hands.

Since the district attorney isn't willing to do anything, the teacher still has a job and little Lamya is too young to have friends big enough to "have a chat" with the teacher outside of the school maybe a good civil attorney could get involved. Go after the teacher, school, school board and school administrators.

penthesilea: The school can discipline the teacher by cutting off her hands.

I think they'd do better by cutting off her paycheck.

Kids today are weak. When I was in first grade, I once got a math problem wrong and my teacher cut my face off with a machete and made a classmate wear it like a funny little hat. He then picked me up and tossed me into the Pacific Ocean...from Pennsylvania. As I hitchhiked back to PA, I really thought about what my priorities were. Once I got home and sewed my face back on, I began to study harder and harder. Years later, when I finally graduated from high school at the top of my class, that same teacher presented me with my diploma. He was so proud he kicked me in the balls and gave me two hard slaps to the mouth. You don't find many teachers like this around who care these days.

This is worse than the time that Otis Spofford cut off Ellen Tebbits' pigtails. She had been trying to grow them for months.

Not particularl interesting and mildly-related brap autobiographical factoid #4,092

When brap was a shy and earnest young elementary schooler his teacher had to remove a sizable chunk of his hair as a classmate had blown a gigantic globule of chewed bubblebum into his scalp.

brap became quite visibly upset, which, apparently his classmates found HILARIOUS. It was on that day that I realized I was saddled with a feral mob of socially retarded vulgarians.

brap: It was on that day that I realized I was saddled with a feral mob of socially retarded vulgarians.

So you come here for the nostalgia?

So...hair doesn't grow back anymore? I don't see the problem here.

That's what you get, Nynaeve.