Dad’s outrage as school librarian who cut his seven-year-old daughter’s hair KEEPS their job
A DAD was outraged after a school librarian cut his seven-year-old daughter's hair and wasn't fired.
The staffer was accused of performing a "modern-day scalping" after she hacked away at the child's hair.
“As your board, we have made every effort to address this matter with the seriousness and care it deserves and with the transparency our community expects.”
The librarian was issued with a warning and two other employees who were aware of the incident but failed to report it have been officially reprimanded.
Jimmy said neither he nor his daughter were questioned as part of the investigation.
“Who did they talk to?” Mr Hoffmeyer asked on Friday when the results of the investigation were announced. “Did they really do an investigation?”
Jimmy took Jurnee out of the school and enrolled her elsewhere after she was "traumatised"; by the incident.
A midwest delegate for the National Parents Union Bernita Bradley, who is working with Mr Hoffmeyer, described the incident as a racial attack, branding it a “modern-day scalping.”
Jimmy is biracial and Jurnee's mom is white, the librarian is white.
The NPU is working to raise awareness of the Crown Act, a bill that bans race-based hair discrimination, which is already law in some states.
“I’m not one to try to make things about race,” the father, who is black and white, said.
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“I’ve pretty much grown up with only white people, myself.”
“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 told