Father outraged after teacher cuts his daughter’s hair without permission

A Michigan father is outraged after he said the staff at his bi-racial daughter’s school cut the 7-year-old’s hair without his permission recently.

Jimmy Hoffmeyer said the incident happened just before spring break. When he talked with someone from the school about what happened, he said it left him just as confused.

Hoffmeyer said his daughter got three haircuts that week - one from another student, one from an actual hairstylist and a third one from her teacher. The last one sent her home in tears and had her father demanding answers.

“Our kind of hair, you can’t just wet down and cut it because, and that’s when I feel like they should have, even if they were trying to do it in the kindest of their heart, once they seen the outcome, they should have been like, ‘Yeah, we messed up,’” he said. “We should probably call him and let him know what just happened.”

Hoffmeyer is waiting for an explanation as to how his daughter Jurnee was sent to school on a Wednesday with a full head of hair and came home a few days later missing most of her locks. He said the first cut was by another student on the bus ride home.

“I mean, I chalked it up because it was a child and you’re not thinking of any serious consequences having to do with a kid,” Hoffmeyer said.

He took the 7-year-old, whose hair had been down her back, to a salon that same day.

“So, what we did is we took her to the salon to get it cut as an asymmetrical,” Hoffmeyer said. “She had a little short here but long still to about her shoulders on this side.”

He then sent her off to school. The next time he saw his daughter, she was missing a lot more hair and was in tears. Jurnee said this haircut wasn’t at the hands of another student - this time it was by her teacher.

“After that teacher cut her hair, she was so embarrassed, so embarrassed that she had to go back to class like that,” Hoffmeyer said.

He contacted the school multiple times to find out exactly what happened and why a teacher would cut his child’s hair at school without permission. But he said those questions have gone unanswered.

Hoffmeyer said he received an apology, but the school won’t show him video of what happened either on the bus or in the school.

Ben Reilly wrote:I'd be ready to get arrested for punching somebody out over this.

Maddog wrote:I can't quite figure out what that teacher was thinking?

Maybe the child was being teased and she wanted to help?

But you call parents and deal with snotty kids teasing before you turn into Edward Scissorhands.  

eddie wrote:

Ben Reilly wrote:I'd be ready to get arrested for punching somebody out over this.

Firstly, why does a child have scissors or a sharp implement, on a school bus? Secondly, why does a teacher think it’s okay to cut a pupil’s hair?

Syl wrote:

eddie wrote:

Firstly, why does a child have scissors or a sharp implement, on a school bus? Secondly, why does a teacher think it’s okay to cut a pupil’s hair?

My thoughts exactly.
The parent should have wanted answers the first time the childs hair was cut by another kid.

The teacher obviously had no right to cut her hair....whatever her reasons were.

Maddog wrote:

Syl wrote:

My thoughts exactly.
The parent should have wanted answers the first time the childs hair was cut by another kid.

The teacher obviously had no right to cut her hair....whatever her reasons were.

I'd have to ask my kids but I think they were allowed to have safety scissors when they were in elementary school.

Syl wrote:

Maddog wrote:

I'd have to ask my kids but I think they were allowed to have safety scissors when they were in elementary school.

I doubt safety scissors could cut hair.

Ben Reilly wrote:I'd be ready to get arrested for punching somebody out over this.