Thunder Bay mom wants answers after teacher's aide chops off son's hair

A Thunder Bay woman is demanding an explanation after a teacher's aide at her son's school cut his long hair — an action her lawyer says is clearly assault while the Crown insists there are no grounds for charges.

CBC News is not naming the family to protect the child's identity.

The seven-year-old boy had chin-length hair before the incident last month. His mother said staff at McKellar Park Central Public School were aware her son was letting his hair grow so that he could take part in traditional First Nations dancing.

The mother told CBC News she was stunned when her son told her it was a teacher's assistant who lopped off 10 centimetres of his hair.

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2009/05/21/thunder-bay-hair.html

http://www.lakeheadschools.ca/corporate/?id=31
Sir Winston Churchill Collegiate and Vocational Institute Family of Schools

Principal: Michelle Probizanski
Vice Principal: Melanie Mussellam (Acting)

301 N. Archibald Street
Thunder Bay, Ontario
P7C 3Y3

Website: www.lakeheadschools.ca/mckellar
Phone: 807-623-2289
Fax: 807-623-1586

This is just so unbelievable. The way I read it, this was clearly an assault on a young child's integrity.

I just wonder what the reaction would have been if it was a young sikh?

HANDS OFF THE HAIR!

Indians don't count. :sarcasm: