Teacher cuts off first grader's braid, charged with disorderly conduct

[♦K.O♦]

A Milwaukee teacher cut off a first grader's braid after she became frustrated because the student was playing with her hair.

Lamya Cammon has a bad habit of absentmindedly playing with her few dozen beautiful braids. The teacher became angry when Lamya continued to play with the hair after she was asked to stop.

The teacher then called Lamya to her desk and cut off one of her braids in front of her classmates.

Lamya went back to her desk and cried as the teacher threw the braid away and her classmates snickered.

Lamya claimed that she wasn't playing with her braid that loud, and said that the teacher then asked her "Now what you gonna go home and say to your momma?"

Later, Lamya's mother confronted the teacher, who apologized and said that she cut the braid off because she was frustrated.

Lamya has been moved to a different classroom, and the teacher remains though the Milwaukee Public School District is going through a disciplinary process.

The district spokesperson also apologized, but Lamya's mother thinks that the teacher should be fired.

The district attorney's office decided to issue the teacher a $175 ticket for disorderly conduct.

To see Lamya's braids and hear her story, watch the Youtube video.

 

[PrincessKia]

That better had been hair extensions she cut off and not that baby's real hair.
Then, she's pay to have my child's hair done again (if she were my child).

The teacher needs to learn to teach better and should have brought this to the attention of the child's parent.

Here's how I think this should be rectified. They should allow the little girl to cut off the teacher's hair in front of the entire class. And since she's young I'm sure she'll do a terrible job. (I know that's mean)

I just can't believe an "educator" would take it that far.

 

[OhSoOthentik]

Wow, that is crazy. I am speechless....

 

[♦K.O♦]

Princess Kia, it's the little girl's hair. Look at the youtube video.

 

[Nya33]

That teacher should be sacked. She had no right to touch her pupils hair. If the teacher was that frustrated by a kid playing with her braids, she needs a different job.

 

[LatterGlory]

 

[PrincessKia]

Oh no! She cut that baby's real hair. I would have been livid.

It's suspicious that the DA isn't going to prosecute the teacher. Even though she admitted to doing this to the child.

I mean seriously she could have put the child's hair in a ponytail or something.

*All I'm seeing right now is red. Let me get of this thread.*

 

[Still Sexy Stewardess]

What?

If a teacher is going to snap like that over a child playing with hair, what worse thing might she do to a child who actually misbehaved?

That teacher needs a different job. Like breaking rocks.

 

[Americka]

That better had been hair extensions she cut off and not that baby's real hair.
Then, she's pay to have my child's hair done again (if she were my child).

The teacher needs to learn to teach better and should have brought this to the attention of the child's parent.

Here's how I think this should be rectified. They should allow the little girl to cut off the teacher's hair in front of the entire class. And since she's young I'm sure she'll do a terrible job. (I know that's mean)

I just can't believe an "educator" would take it that far.

Believe me when I say that teaching is not for everyone. 98% of teachers would not do something like this. It is the lunatic 2% that gets all of us painted with a very broad brush.

 

[RockCreak]

Then the teachers hair should be shaved off in front of the entire school!

 

[SistaSista]

This is crazy. There are so many other alternatives to cutting the child's hair and she chose not to take them. IMO I don't think that she should teach again if she can't control her frustrations. Next time it could be her hitting a child because the child did not do what she wanted them to do. Even though she didn't hit the little girl I think this is some form of abuse that can potentially get out of control of not dealt with now.

 

[thatscuteright]

I watched the video and the little girl playing with her braids like that with all those beads would have annoyed me too, but I would not have cut off her hair. I would have just put it in a ponytail, as that was the little girl's real hair.
What the teacher did was out of line and traumatizing
That comment about "what you gonna tell your momma" is insulting to the mother and child.

 

[SouthernDimps]

As a middle school teacher, I know that teaching can be frustrating. But there is ABSOLUTELY NO REASON to do this to a child. That teacher definitely needs to reconsider her career choices.

 

[KPH]

i can't even describe how I would have reacted. she could have sent the girl to the office or anything. I know one thing the teacher's family would be considering pulling the plug or hoping for the best.

 

[bahamababe242]

I have two little girls

 

[Leeda.the.Paladin]

What happened to sending kids to the principle's office?

As far as I'm concerned, that's assault.

 

[PretteePlease]

Let that have been my child I would catch that female slippin.
Pookie and them would come all up out of me.

Pen, paper, stamp, time for some hate mail.

Ok now i'm even madder this ich put scissors up in that childs
face and cut her bang braid? I would sue the school district.
I would put my daughter in therapy. And ask that that ho
nevah evah be able to teach young children. What is the teachers
name and why don't they walk up on her arse w/ a camera ambush
style? Would she have cut lil Becky's lovely locs?

 

[ShiShiPooPoo]

Child abuse plain and simple.


I have students play with their hair and each others all the time. I just tell them its not a beauty shop and that's that.

 

[naturalpride]

Wow that's sick.....

 

[Aviah]

I knew someone would say it was (at least in part) a race issue. I do agre the beads would have irritated the life outta me, but like others said, its not the way to go about it...

 

[happylife]

if that was me, that district would be seeing me in civil court.

either that teacher gets shown the exit and/or they will have to compensate my daughter.

 

[Cien]

oh.. HEEEYUUUUUULLLLLLLLLL nawl!!!

 

[tailormade84]

it was extreme and unnecessary - i think she should have to take classes on anger management or some kind of teaching workship...

but honestly, you can't get too mad, it wasn't too TOO extreme, I was expecting a VERY noticeable difference - i seen more hair cut for some bangs lol

 

[somethingdifferent]

To me, she needs a demotion or termination.

 

[lovenharmony]

WTF!!! I would consider that assault! I would've had to seriously be held back from beating the ish out of that teacher for doing that to my daughter!!

 

[LiberianGirl]

Her mother is better than me because it would take all the strength in me not to knock that teacher out. I bet if another student had cut off her hair they would have received some type of school suspension so I don't understand why the teacher is still allowed to teach. I would demand my child be moved to another school b/c I would not want her to have ANY contact with that teacher.

 

[Eritreladiee]

That ***** would have to go down for that one! Oh, it'd be ****en ON!

 

[trevprit]

Kids make teachers crazy sometmes! And I know that listening to the beads must have been soooo annoying! But she's just a BABY!!! She just started school. It's the same as a child who bites their nails or taps their foot out of nervousness or boredom. She could have called the girl's mother and asked if it was okay for her to put the hair in a little bun or asked about no more beads, but to avoid offending her said it was because they were distracting the student, not that they were annoying the teacher.

I was sittin here with my mouth literally hanging open, trying to figure out how would I NOT catch a case in a situation like this.

Makes me wonder what other kinds of abuse has this teacher done to those kids? The only reason this got out was because this little girl was humiliated and it was something physically obvious.

This teacher must feel really safe where she is. She must not know about how people's "mommas" WILL come up to the school and beat the living daylights out of the teacher for practically nothing. That's actually the new thing in the urban public schools. They should make her *** teach there, she'll probably be calling 911 within her first week!

 

[CurlyMoo]

Are you trying to ruin my sunday? That's permission for a beat down right there. I wonder if the mother will sue, surely the school district would compensate her.

 

[trevprit]

it was extreme and unnecessary - i think she should have to take classes on anger management or some kind of teaching workship...

but honestly, you can get too mad, it wasn't too TOO extreme, I was expecting a VERY noticeable difference - i seen more hair cut for some bangs lol

I know I'm upset about it because the relationship between a child and a teacher is a trust, and the teacher violated it.

I think the anger is about the fact that the teacher felt comfortable enough with violating the baby's space and person by doing this. She didn't bun her hair, she CUT it because she was frustrated. If you "go off" like this for something so small, what will you do when it's more serious?

What ways does the teacher usually deal with her own frustrations? What ways has she dealt with her frustrations in the past?

You're right, it's not like she hit her, but the part about her not knowing how to manage her emotions says that she shouldn't be a teacher. That's like the teacher getting mad one day and cussing the class out.

Teaching is a pain in the ***, but you have to suck it up sometimes because it's a service position and despite the fact that the "customer" is driving you crazy, you can't react in any way you choose, or you might lose your job and/or your privileges to practice your profession.