Lamya Cammon is angry, confused, and scared by the incident last week in which the apparently frustrated teacher cut one of her braids off after she wouldn’t stop playing with them in class.

Cammon, 7, sports a few dozen braids, but one is conspicuously absent.

“She told me to stop playing with it. Then cut it off and sent me back to my desk,” Cammon said.

Cammon’s a first-grader at Congress Elementary and said her teacher used a pair of classroom scissors to cut off one of the braids after she absent-mindedly kept playing with them.



I think the teacher overstepped. Sending the child to the office for principal and parents to deal with , I think, would have been a better option.

I feel for the things teachers have to deal with , just as the things parents do, but I do believe certain things should be escalated to parents when the authority feels a need to leave any marks (or absences) on the child.

any thoughts from other parents?

As a parent, I can not even begin to tell you how furious that would make me. It is completely and totally inappropriate in my opinion.

when i was in grade school the teachers were allowed to spank the students
there was one teacher im glad i didnt have'a friend had her, and that teacher was known not only to spank the students but to lock them in the closet.

I think corporal punishment should be optional. If parents sign a contract of permission and it is a requirement for parents to be present during the punishment, I see no ill. This was totally outside of any consent or consultation with the parent which is not acceptable

I would be in that office with the teacher and the principle demanding many things from that school. No not money.

Teacher must have been running on a short fuse that day...keeping a room full of 7 years still and at attention I'm sure is challenging. If the worst thing the kid was doing was twirling a braid then I'd say the teacher has some issues...
If it were my kid, I'd be pissed as hell!

were I her parent,

I would consider that to have been an assault against my child and if that teacher still had a job I would file a several million dollar lawsuit against the school district

Some one would pay...
First the teacher with a civil suit
then the schoold district