School Pays $10,000 for Boy's Haircut

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WILSONVILLE, Ore. (AP) - Sally Miller might have been grateful if her 8-year-old son had come home from school with a nice-looking haircut. But when he showed up with ``next to nothing'' on his head, Miller threatened to sue.

The West Linn-Wilsonville School District recently agreed to pay Miller $10,000 because a school employee cut the boy's hair without permission.

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``There was one stinking day, and I'm not lying, that I didn't brush his hair,'' Miller said.

Superintendent Roger Woehl said Wednesday the employee was wrong to play barber. ``If someone needs a haircut, we'd be more than happy to go into our wallets to give them 20 bucks,'' he said.

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Wonder if the "employee" was a freeper - with a grudge

Fuck that.

with this story.

i'd feel sooo uncomfortable with my kid in that school district.

What the HELL would someone be thinking,
to decide to cut a child's hair without parental permission?
That's just BIZARRE!

I wouldn't want this person working around children.
Their judgement is FAR too poor!

I sure hope that employee got fired. That's $10,000 wasted, that could have gone to better use. That's extremely close to where I live, too. I'd like to find out that idiot's name, so I can yell at him/her in person.

And doesn't the superintendent WISH they had given the kid a $20 to get a real haircut....

Nobody could buy him a comb and/or brush and tell him to do it himself?

:shrug:
rocknation

How many parents feel that they can trust their 8-year-old son to bathe, let alone brush his hair nicely?

But yes, practically shaving his hair clean off still is not right . . . Right (with a capital R) maybe, but not right . . .

He even uses gel sometimes ! He will ask for a haicut, and get upset if it does not happen soon enough. My 10 year old daughter could care less about brushing her hair.

OMG!! My son may be a (gasp) METROSEXUAL !!!

and whoever did it is lucky they got away cheap.

With the employee arrested.

And it might not be too late to do just that.

The only time I can even remotely see this as being anywhere near potentially justified is if the kid or the school were having a serious head-lice problem. Or the kid had gum in his hair. Lots and lots of gum. And even then, it's up to the school to notify the parents.

I wonder what set this "employee" off so badly about his haircut that s/he felt the need to shave the kid's head.

in-loco parentis gone horribly wrong.

I have a friend, his son attends a catholic school. Apparently the school principle got a little upset a couple of weeks ago and cut several teenage boys hair. Their hair was a little below the ears.

Guess not.

"Boy, we gonna cut awl that lawng hayair awff 'n' make ya look like a MAN!"

I wear my hair buzz-short 'cause I'm going bald and it looks better that way. But anybody ought to be able to wear their hair any old way they want. Free-est country in the world, my ass. :eyes:

an eight year old's hair?

:shrug:

Was he physically incapable?