A White Teacher Reportedly Cut Off a Biracial Student's Hair

A White Teacher Reportedly Cut Off a Biracial Student’s Hair
Claire Lampen
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A white Michigan school teacher reportedly took it upon herself to cut a biracial student’s hair last month. The girl’s father, Jimmy Hoffmeyer, told the Associated Press that when he complained to the principal, “She said she didn’t have the authority to do anything,” and instead asked “what she could do to make it go away.”
According to Hoffmeyer, this was the second unasked-for chop his 7-year-old daughter, Jurnee, received in a single week. On March 24, she came home from school with one side of her head closely cropped, after another student (also white) took scissors to her long curls on the bus. “It was a child,” Hoffmeyer explained to Mount Pleasant ABC affiliate WJRT, “and you’re not thinking of any serious consequences having to do with a kid.” He says he took Jurnee to a salon that afternoon, where the stylist gave her an asymmetrical cut, keeping some of the length. But when Jurnee came home from school two days later, the rest of her hair had been lopped off, too.

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