https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/08/us/california-haircut-teacher/index.html
This article was updated on December 8, 2018 by CNN author Kimberly Hutchinson, and Braden Walker, Sonya Hamasaki and Hollie Silverman contributed to this report. A California teacher, Margaret Gieszinger, has lost her job at University Preparatory High School in Visalia and faces 6 criminal charges after a video shows her forcibly cutting a student's hair while singing an incorrect version of the national anthem. One account of false imprisonment, 2 accounts of cruelty to a child, 2 counts of battery and one count of assault. She could serve 3 years if she's convicted of all charges.
In the video, Gieszinger is shown cutting a male student's hair and directing that another student volunteers to go to the front of the classroom or else she'll be picking. She walks around the classroom and begins to lounge at a female student. Gieszinger pulls her hair to the side and attempts to cut her hair but the female student flees the room, along with her other peers. Witnesses stated that Gieszinger walked into her chemistry class with a pair of scissors saying it was haircut day. Gieszinger was released from jail Friday after posting $100,000 bail.
A similar incident occurred in October after the Albuquerque school district said a teacher cut off a Native American student’s braid and called another a “bloody Indian”. The incident occurred at Cibola High School in New Mexico and the unnamed teacher and the students were all wearing costumes.
Students go to school to learn, not to be assaulted or threatened by teachers that they should be able to trust.
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