I agree with you. My mom was a teacher for 33 years and never did anything like that to a child, even though she's been through frustrating experiences!!! If you're that frustrated, find another way to let it out, rather than do something like this to a first grader!  A FIRST GRADER! Good grief... 

I'm not in favor of physical violence but if this had been my child that teacher would have been lucky to not end up bald. I hope the parents do pursue this in civil and also juvenile court. I would have asked the juvenile authorities to charge her with child abuse. Forcibly cutting a child is abuse no matter how you look at it.

I agree. I so agree. I'm majoring in Education and I would never do this to a child. If a teacher ever felt that they needed to discipline my child that is just not acceptable (like what this teacher did), fuck a lawsuit, I would beat that teachers ass until they're afraid to even leave their damn house again.This isn't 1910 nor was it a Catholic prep school. Teachers are not allowed to touch a student.

Not
only is this humiliating, but just to speak on practicality's behalf-
um, this girl is black. A) if that's her real hair, it takes a FUCKING
LONG TIME to grow! B) if it's fake hair, that shit is expensive!

What
the teacher did was completely uncalled for. The girl is probably what,
six, yes, six year olds play with their hair. If you're going to get
into education, and if you're going to enter a classroom full of six
year olds, you need to be emotionally prepared to deal with them. I
don't know if that one action deserves for her to get fired (we don't
know if this sort of impatience is a tendency or if she just snapped
that one day), but definitely transferred to another school. She might
want to seriously reconsider her career choice?

That's ridiculously immature. "I'm frustrated, so I'll chop off the hair of the person who frustrated me." How old is this teacher, 10?

Wow.  This sounds like something a child would do to another child.  Way to be mature teacher.  I'm pretty sure a "oh, I'm sorry" doesn't cover it.  That doesn't make her hair magically grow back.

@TheNumberScott@xanga - @draco1531@xanga - @RaquelHiggins005@xanga - I wrote this post like 2 minutes after I wrote it so I was hyped on anger. I DO agree that physical violence doesnt solve anything but seriously, if this were your child & you pick them up & they tell you what happened, who knows what we as mothers would do. My mom has a way with words & once when my kindergarten teacher insulted her during a meeting, she scared her so bad she ran out & got the principal & HE ended up telling her off because she was out of line.

Not only that, the coward they call the teacher hasnt been answering calls or messages which shows how ashamed & stupid she must feel. The news crew should stand post at the school & get a picture of this monster who is "teaching" so people know who to watch out for. This is crazy & uncalled for.

@Shy___Away@xanga - While it's true we dont know if she acts like this all the time, her "snaps" may get worse. I've seen teachers suspended or fired for doing less than this, so I wonder why she wasnt tackled with abuse charges. 

That's assault, right there.
It doesn't matter if it didn't "hurt", it's still a part of the child's body, and the teacher harmed it.
The teacher should NEVER be allowed to teach again, in any capacity.
If it was my child I'd get my revenge, alright, I'd shave the teacher bald.

I would be completely and utterly Livid. There is No way this teacher is justified in doing something so juvenile and hurtful. I would go to that teacher and let her know that it is in No way her place to be "Teaching" my child in such a way... The lesson would Stick, one way or another. I do not care if I had to scar it in her, she would Never cross any lines with me, my child, or any other child so long as she would live.

@filtered_sunlight - Glad someone else said it.

If this behavior from the teacher is a regular occurance and she leaves the classroom crying every day because she can't handle it, then sure, maybe she should look to change careers.  And it was unfortunate that for some reason (either the teacher's lack of patience or the ridiculous amount of discruption from the girl - or a combination of both, whatever) this happened.  However, it's getting really old to me just how terribly teachers are treated consistently.  Do you know how much training, schooling, certifications, exams, etc. teachers must go through to initially BECOME teachers?  You cannot receive liscensure today in most states without a master's degree and a significant (and expensive) handful of certifications.  Not to mention a teacher must constantly continue education through further certifications and updated courses (at their own expense!) throughout their career.  Couple that with the fact that most teachers don't get paid much more than 30 or 40K a year and the hours a teacher must put in (no, teachers do not have 8:00 to 3:00 days and "summers off" - any time a teacher is not in front of students, he/she is preparing lesson plans, grading/prepping assignments, attending lectureships and classes - mostly throughout the summer - etc.), and it's pretty safe to say that teaching is about one of the least profitable jobs in the nation.

Now, bear with me - I don't think that what a person is paid determines what their effort should be in their job.  Making minimum wage, in my opinion, is no excuse to not do your best.  I only say all that to point out that teachers go through HELL to first acquire and then keep liscensure, and looking at it objectively, it is most certainly not worth the time, stress, and money.  Teachers become teachers and remain teachers (for the most part - I know there are always exceptions) because somewhere inside them they have more of a desire to help children and contribute to society than actually living comfortably.  A teacher's life is stressful - I have plenty of friends who teach from whom I've heard horror story after horror story of certain children (who, through the example of their parents, think that they can do no wrong and don't have to listen to authority for any reason at any time) who are continuously disruptive to a classroom, and because of incidents like this, teachers can't do a single thing about it.  Sure, send the child to the principle's office - only to have them sent back a few minutes later.  They can't keep them there forever.  Call their parents?  The parents curse and scream at teachers for "not doing a good enough job" with their kids and the child's behavior continues because they recieve no discipline at home.  What is a teacher supposed to do when a child literally causes learning to stop because they cannot be removed from the classroom effectively but are continuously disruptive?  I personally would be livid if MY child were in a class with a kid who was constantly making noise to the point where no effective teaching could be accomplished.

Now, I'm not necessarily saying that this girl was a continuous disruption (we're not told that part) and I'm definitely not saying that the teacher's behavior is warranted.  She should NOT have done that; any physical contact with students can be turned into "aggravated assault" if the parents want to start a lawsuit, so it's best anymore to just not touch kids under any circumstances (although it's sad that something like this is seriously being equated with something like the teacher smacking the child in the face or something....sheesh).  However, revoke her liscense because of this?!  If a teacher's liscense is revoked for what is deemed "abuse", they do not get it back.  Ever.  Upwards of probably a $100,000 and loads of time, effort and stress of an investment snatched away because of something like THIS?  Please.  That's as much a childish overreaction as the teacher cutting the girl's braid off in the first place.  Assuming this was an isolated incident, a reprimand and a fine were suitable punishment for this.

I'd really like to hear the teacher's perspective on this, too.  Although I'm wondering if not bothering to get an opinion from the teacher's perspective of the situation is just another example of how teachers are trampled on nowadays.

Oh let some teacher try that with any of my children . There will be hell to pay.  I realize that children are not innocent but that is completely out of line, disrespectful and rude.  She had no right and she pretty much violated that poor little girl.

Teacher should be fired and be sentenced to have her head shaved in front of her pupils.