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Long Hair in Texas Elementry School
Anonymous:
--- Quote from: "Ursus" ---Teacher Punishes Boys With Haircut, Bows
POSTED: 1:29 pm CDT April 13, 2007
UPDATED: 3:53 pm CDT April 13, 2007
MILAN, Ind. -- Debbie Hackman's son, Caleb, was one of two boys who came home from school this week with a new haircut -– and the barber was the boys' teacher at Milan Elementary School.
According to students, fourth-grade teacher Jennifer Blockman punished the boys by tying pink bows in their hair and cutting their hair in front of the class.
"He doesn't really want to go back to school because he's afraid he's going to be made fun of (and) maybe picked on," said Hackman, who wants the teacher to apologize.
"I do realize adults make mistakes, but they have to own up to them," she said. "Apologize to the student. I don't think this has happened yet."
Other parents expressed outrage as they waited to see how the school district would handle the incident.
"That should have nothing to do with the education at all," said parent Stephanie Crossman. "If it was a concern of the teacher, the teacher should have talked it over with the children's parents. It's also humiliating for the kids involved because it happened in front of other kids."
Blockman is scheduled to meet with school officials, sources told WLWT-TV.
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:shamrock:
Jeesh, WTF is going on is this the 1800's all over again. Makes me feel were going backwards....It amazes me that a teacher could even feel she has the liberties to engage in discipline like this....Where the F@#$ is this coming from....School Board..Alumni..lol, other teachers, maybe some parents from the PTA.
Schools it seems feel so threatened that their loosing control (delusional thinking) that they are reverting back to practices of discipline that they would have rebelled against. I can hear it now in the teachers lounge,"We must gain control of these derelicts, ya kno them long haired ones, well we'll just cut their hair and put pink ribbons in the hair and verbally abuse them. That'll teach em....."
This is just sick twisted behavior that doesn't come close to dealing with the crime in relative terms of equal discipline.
:shamrock: :shamrock: ............Danny....
Ursus:
This little first-grader recently had one of her braids chopped in front of the whole class as punishment ... for absentmindedly fiddling with her hair beads. The other kids laughed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Aq1WeS6VCs
The teacher fully admitted that she humiliated the student simply because she was frustrated. She's still teaching.
Anonymous:
I'm beginning to think we need to open up a specific Forum to deal with Public School officials and teachers abuse of children, of this will need moderation. But I think the time has come....Maybe (fornits) can way in on this request, maybe open it up for debate before doing anything. Seriously though......
:shamrock: :shamrock:
Danny.............
Anonymous:
O0
Anonymous:
Felice it just keeps going on and on, I am about ready to put them a site "NO MORE BULLIES".
Because these authority figures act like bullies.
Danny
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