Sending Your Child to School with Messed Up Hair? Don’t Get Mad if the Teacher Fixes It

Have ya’ll heard about this yet? Well if you haven’t let me be the first to spill the tea for you. A teacher’s photo recently went viral on social media. Happens all the time, right?

Well this time it was a picture of one of her students. The young girl came to school with tangled hair and lint balls and being thy child’s keeper she decided that she would comb the child’s hair and take a few photographs for good measure. She then took her good deed a step further and posted what she did on Facebook with the following message:

“So one of my students came to school today with her hair full of knots, lint, and ridiculously tangled. It looked like it hadn’t been touched the entire holiday break…so my classroom became a salon. The photo on the left is before, and the right after. It just broke my heart so badly that I refused to let her leave school today the same way she came. When I finished she looked at herself and said “aww so pretty” … the beauty is that she is normally non-verbal. So now I’m crying lol. My day has been made!”

There is a lot of attention being given to this story, some people are chastising the teacher for touching the child’s hair at all and others are pissed off that she put the picture on social media, while others think what she did was great. We will undoubtedly hear your opinion, but first here are a few of the comments from social media:

From another teacher:

“I currently teach elementary school in the NYC public school system. In my 11 years of teaching, I had to be doctor, nurse, financier/atm machine, therapist, tailor, laundress (yes, I have had to wash some of my students’ clothes in my apt because their parents would send them to school with hoodies/jackets that haven’t been washed in ages!), and hair stylist. Trust, my kids would pass their exams with flying colors too. I don’t play games with my students’ academics.

“The point is when you care and love your students, teachers don’t hesitate to go the extra 5 miles for their students. That’s exactly what this teacher is doing.”

From a parent:

“That’s a very passive aggressive way of telling her parents that they’re sh*%y parents.”

From other commentators:

“If you’re sending your child to school with messed up hair then don’t get mad if the teacher fixes it. Appearance and dress codes exist for a reason!”

“She shouldn’t have shared her good deed. She wanted a pat on the back, which turned a good thing into something tainted with hidden motives. Facebook f*cks people all up.”

As you can imagine, the comments were all over the place, here is my opinion, I think what the teacher did was awesome.

As the teacher above mentioned we are dealing with children and even though when they sit in a class room they are technically not the teachers own child, as a parent I would expect that any teacher would treat my baby with all the love and care you would your own children.

If my child is at school and falls in a muddy puddle and scuffs up his knee I would not expect to come to school and see him still in wet muddy clothes and bleeding everywhere.

Children are always a touchy subject because nobody wants to hear that they left a child in another’s care and something bad happens to them, or that they were touched inappropriately or yelled at.

In this case the teacher might have helped the mom, you never know anybody’s circumstance, and I really think it was a great gesture and if I were that child I would remember that time “Ms. So and so did my hair for me in class”.

Here is where the teacher lost me, posting my child’s picture on Facebook is totally off limits in my book. In this case we only see the back of the childs head so technically you cannot see her face which would have been worse so some might give her a pass on the Facebook aspect. As a matter of fact many parents do not mind sharing pictures of their children online, personally I am not one of those parents.

But let me be a little less biased – if I were the type of mom to put my child out there, I certainly wouldn’t put her out there at her worst.

Again, if the child’s parent was in a situation where they just had to get the child to school and couldn’t comb her hair, I do not think posting that on Facebook is warranted.

There needs to be some discretion with regards to what we share online, but because we are from a society that now shares every single little thing, lines get blurred and we lose our sense of discretion, especially when it is something that does not affect us directly.

I think what the teacher did was commendable, but sharing a child s photo on Facebook without the parent’s consent is an absolute no no for me.

Comment below, and let us know what you think about this whole thing. Would you mind if a teacher styled your daughter’s hair in class? How do you feel about the social media aspect of it all?