Teacher cuts pupil's hair, mum files police report

@Flonne: I know where you are coming from, but trust me, we have seen enough of these situations to know that the possibility of an untrue dyslexic case is so large we cannot give them the benefit of the doubt. Even better - we (not me I'm a good kid generally, but many of the people around me) ask our parents (when we were young) to write letters to cover our asses e.g. repeatedly late for school, not handing in work etc. Dyslexia is but one of the many reasons I have seen, on top of things like faking external involvements, church committments blah blah. If I even may, I'd like to ask for a medical proof of dyslexia before believing that the student is dyslexic. This should be the way to tackle the situation, not to blindly buy or trash that statement of mental impairment (of course while waiting for the letter or a reply from the parent, there should still be some leeway!).

That said... where's the proof of the letter that the teacher supposedly gave the student? Still, cutting the hair before informing the parents = no go.

*edit* Chinese has a saying: 杀一儆百: punish/kill one and send a message to all others -- lots of institutions use this method (not just the Chinese obviously). Whether the ends justify the means, it's up in the air. We've not taken it to the [relative] extreme yet either so don't make it sound like no one can sneeze without getting shot. */edit*

Hadriel