What. The. F***?!?

[AspenRose]

I would make it my mission in life to ensure that teacher never set foot in a classroom ever again. If she thought she was "stressed" when she cut that child's hair, that would be only the tip of her stress iceberg, if I had anything to do with it.


MILWAUKEE -- A Milwaukee teacher is charged with disorderly conduct after punishing a first-grader by cutting her hair.

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.

Cammon, 7, sports a few dozen braids, but one is conspicuously absent.

"She told me to stop playing with it. Then cut it off and sent me back to my desk," Cammon said.

Cammon's a first-grader at Congress Elementary and said her teacher used a pair of classroom scissors to cut off one of the braids after she absent-mindedly kept playing with them.


http://www.wisn.com/news/21944773/detail.html

Folks on the news message board are saying the teacher was white, though that is never mentioned in the story. So here is the $64,000 question: If the teacher is indeed white, do you think that if this child had blonde hair, and was twirling it or chewing on it in class to distraction, the teacher would march her to the front of the class and CUT HER HAIR?!

But alas, I guess I'm just being hypersensitive, playing a race card, and seeing race in everything. x(

And if, heaven forbid, the teacher is black, her ass STILL needs to be fired!

What REALLY ticks me off is that the child said that the teacher TRICKED her into going up to her desk, saying she wanted to give the girl some candy. :nuke:

[Karenina]

1. Oh, dear...

[jmm]

2. The girl shouldn't have been moved to another class.

The teacher should move on to another profession. I don't care how stressful your job is (and I don't care for her apologists but I digress) if you can't handle it this type of behavior is not the answer.

[Fire1]

3. I read this article when it was first posted and my response is

the same. Playing with the hair was not the problem. The NOISE from the beads IN the hair was the problem. Still, the teacher handled it poorly. I've had these same kinds of problems when the little ones 'get their hair braided.' It takes them two or three days to come down from cloud nine!!! Meanwhile, we still have to teach and hold the attention of squirming children with attention spans of gnats. The teacher knew she was wrong but also knew she would suffer no significant consequences. THAT'S the part that irritates me.