Ottawa teacher sent home after cutting hair of 7-year old

[ferri]

Ottawa teacher sent home after cutting hair of 7-year-old boy with autism

An Ottawa teacher has been sent home after he was accused of cutting the hair of a seven-year-old student with autism at school without permission from the boy's mother.

Parent Miriam Brandon said she had been getting regular phone calls from her son Dominic's teacher for weeks.

more here:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/te ... 14?cmp=rss

[techrtr]

Hate to say it, but the mom looks like a loser and if the kid's hair is making it difficult for him to learn (and he's already learning disabled), the mother should have done something about it. Instead, she wanted her son to be the cool "hippie" kid even though he probably has a stomach full of hair now. Some people are too stupid to have kids.

[Fancy]

I find that disgusting and maybe the school boards should spend some more time educating their teachers on appropriate behaviour - bullying in the school is not just a kid thing.

[Fancy]

Hate to say it, but the mom looks like a loser and if the kid's hair is making it difficult for the already learning disabled kid to learn, the mother should have done something about it. Instead, she wanted her son to be the cool "hippie" kid even though he probably has a stomach full of hair now. Some people are too stupid to have kids.

It's not up to the teacher to cut someone's hair - that's not what they are paid to do.

[techrtr]

Well, as the mother said "she'd been receiving calls from the teacher for weeks." She didn't want to do anything about it. Maybe the school should have just sent the kid home and let the mother home school him. Oh wait, she's too busy getting tattoos and smoking crack.

While I don't agree with the teacher cutting the kid's hair, the parent should have done something about it.

[FreeRights]

Well, as the mother said "she'd been receiving calls from the teacher for weeks." She didn't want to do anything about it. Maybe the school should have just sent the kid home and let the mother home school him. Oh wait, she's too busy getting tattoos and smoking crack.

While I don't agree with the teacher cutting the kid's hair, the parent should have done something about it.

Weird, the article I read didn't say anything about tattoos or smoking crack.

[Sige]

Well, as the mother said "she'd been receiving calls from the teacher for weeks." She didn't want to do anything about it. Maybe the school should have just sent the kid home and let the mother home school him. Oh wait, she's too busy getting tattoos and smoking crack.

While I don't agree with the teacher cutting the kid's hair, the parent should have done something about it.

She did do something about it - she chose to not cut her son's hair. This is her right as a parent. This teacher was way out of line!

And tattoos and crack??!?? Wow, not sure where you got that...?

[Urbane]

There are really two issues here:

1. Was the boy's hair length an issue in terms of safety and/or the learning environment?

2. Should the teacher have cut the hair without the permission of the parent?

It's hard to know the answer to "1" without being there but it's easy to answer "2." That answer is no. A teacher can't cut a student's hair without permission of the parent.

[Fancy]

Well, as the mother said "she'd been receiving calls from the teacher for weeks." She didn't want to do anything about it. Maybe the school should have just sent the kid home and let the mother home school him......
While I don't agree with the teacher cutting the kid's hair, the parent should have done something about it.

The parent didn't need to do anything about it - her kid, hers and his choice. Lots of kids have shoulder length hair and have had for as long as I can remember. The school has no right to send a child home because of the length of their hair - ludicrous. Some teachers just don't have a clue as to how to deal with a situation until they've gone too far. What happened to keeping one's hands to themselves or does that only apply to the kids?

[Sige]

I would be curious to know how the teacher would have handled it had it been a female student...surely there are lots of girls with long hair in that class.

[Barney Google]

I'm truly amazed at what some teachers think they can do.

Throwing students food away because THEY deem it as unhealthy...now cutting kids hair?

Really, now?

Maybe a few teachers need to have a few parents monitor their diets and hair styles.

[Fancy]

What a few teachers have done to kids is appalling from duct taping kids heads to desk to throwing objects at them (never mind the obvious). How any of that is "educating" the children is beyond me.