On What Planet Is This OK?

How could any teacher possibly think it would be ok to cut a student's hair, for any reason, without a parent's permission?  Just goes to show that a college education doesn't necessarily imply intelligence:

A Texas mother claimed a teacher cut her son’s hair without her permission Tuesday after deeming he was in violation of school protocol.

Lane Kiesling, 16, told KXAS-TV he was told his bangs were getting long and were against Hico High School’s dress code...

Kiesling told the station the principal of the school, Shelli Stegall, told him a teacher who had a cosmetology license would cut his hair after class. However, the teenager said he was taken out of class and the teacher cut his hair.

"It looked like if I were to take the kitchen scissors and just pull it out and bluntly over and over cut, because you know it was just very choppy like Jim Carrey on ‘Dumb and Dumber’ but rounder and a little bit shorter. That's exactly what it looked like," Martin said.

Martin said she called the principal about the haircut, who apologized and said she would pay to get it fixed.

However, Martin wrote on Facebook that her son came home upset after the principal “just told him how it was his fault and belittled him the whole time.”

If this student's and parent's stories are true, they deserve more than an just an apology. There's an argument to be made that this is an assault.