I was angry until I found out the girl was black.

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

And probably a funny shaped nose.

I used to have long hair. Cutting it off was traumatic, and I wanted to do it. The teacher should be arrested for assault.

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

She had large beads in the braids. So I could see them clicking together and being distracting. But if it's that distracting, send her to the office, have them call home and remedy the problem.

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.

Physical and mental abuse charges? HAH. Kids are such pussies nowadays.

I totally see the teacher's perspective in this. This onetime in class this kid kept dicking with his wrist watch, so I cut off his hand with some bolt cutters.
/School
//Serious Business

There's a certain college softball pitcher who is lucky to graduate with her braid. I swear that girl stroked that goddam braid the whole damn game like she was Pee Wee in the Playhouse.

Lamya Cammon is angry, confused, and scared by the incident last week in which the apparently frustrated teacher cut one of her braids off after she wouldn't stop playing with them in class.

Come on. She was confused and scared just trying to figure out how to spell her name.

Wussy kid, retarded teacher.

What was it supposed to achieve anyway? She has dozens more.

Lee! Loudly!

What is it with people leaving off the -ly on adverbs these days? I see it all the time in commercials, sports broadcasts...everywhere! And don't get me started on the good/well mixup. He hit that ball really well, not really good, you twuptarts!

Theaetetus: itazurakko: 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.

Send the kid to the office. It's not the teacher's job to remedy any discipline problems, the teacher is not trained for it, and there are huge potential liability issues. Possibly criminal ones, as here.

Your argument is invalid

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

Dear Mr. Funkenstein.. err.. Dr..

I regret to inform you that you owe me one keyboard. If you could please put disclaimers on your posts similar to this in the future, it would be much appreciated. Something along hte lines of "Hilarity to ensue, please put plastic on keyboards now:" would be good.

Thank you.
~me~

/ freaking hilarious
// tough love baby, tough love.

Blues_X 2009-12-14 12:51:18 PM
If that was my daughter, there might now be a teacher with a large bald spot at that school.

Along with a serious limp!

Approves:

Doctor Funkenstein: 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.

*sniff* that's ... just so inspiring ... You're so lucky, man.

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

Apparently not documented enough.

Seriously, if you contemplate going after your students with a sharp object, maybe you need a break from being a teacher.

//Not that the kids don't sometimes deserve it... but be the bigger man more often than not.

The Muslim child should be put in Federal prison for the rest of her life.

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

Is that because you're an asshole or because you're a dick?

ide shave the kid bald for having such an ethnic haircut just out of principal, just give her a bag of cheeto's and a grape soda and she will be fine

I bet the teacher was fat.

ne2d: I was angry until I found out the girl was black a jedi.

Damn ya, Lamya, watcha done gone and did!

Kudos to the teacher for not getting blood on the scissors.

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

How would you feel if your boss/manager came up to you w/ scissors/electric shaver and took a chunk of your hair off? I'm curious.

I love the grammar they are teaching now.

"I went to my desk and cried. And they was laughing," Cammon said. "She threw it away, and she said, 'Now what you gonna go home and say to your momma? '

There is no reason to make a first grader cry. A teacher is supposed to be building trust with these kids so they want to learn and are comfortable with asking for help.

I would have pulled her hair back or put it under a cap. If that didn't work, request she sit on her fidgety hand every time she made the noise. Or you know, get over it, it's one small noise in a classroom of kids shuffling around, sniffling, writing, etc.

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

Is that because you're an asshole or because you're a dick?

Well, a pussy is only 1.5 inches from an asshole.

"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"



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I love how the teachers association totally excuses the whole thing by saying the teacher was just stressed by budget cuts - totally turning it political.

God, how are is it - Don't touch the kids!

I'm in teacher education now (and surprised to find it's not all a waste), and when I get licensed, I will NEVER join a union.