A 7-year-old Native American boy was left traumatized after his classmates chopped off his long hair during class.
Andreas Garcia was left embarrassed and in tears after two of his classmates at Del City Elementary in Oklahoma cut off a large patch of his hair close to his scalp.
Following his return home, the boy told his parents that his long locks were chopped off by his classmates while the teacher was busy on her laptop and not paying attention to what the students were doing.
“After I was done doing my homework, they started cutting my hair. The teacher wasn’t looking. She was just on her laptop,” tearful Andreas said in an interview with KOCO.
Meanwhile, the young boy’s outraged father, Jamal, called out his son’s teacher for doing nothing to stop the attack on the 7-year-old.
“How do you not notice two kids standing over someone and getting their hair cut?” he questioned before revealing that Andreas has not smiled once since the traumatizing experience at his school.
“This is our tradition. He had beautiful, long hair and all of a sudden it gets cut. It hurts,” the boy’s mom, Denise Gonzalez, added.
Adding up to the parents’ fury is the alleged fact that the school failed to notify them of what had happened in Andreas’ class.
“Knowing that the school did not contact me at all until Saturday morning and yet they want to investigate it, but not until Monday when school goes back in, so I feel like they were just trying to sweep it under the rug,” Mr. Garcia added.
Since the news went viral, Mid-Del Public Schools alleged that an investigation into the bullying case was launched on the day Andres’ hair was cut off.
“We recognize the cultural significance of hair to our students’ identities and do not take this lightly. Any students found to be involved will receive discipline in a manner consistent with steps outlined in our student handbook,” the school district insisted before adding they couldn’t resolve the matter before talking to all parties involved.
Following the incident, Garcia has contemplated pulling his son out of the elementary school.
“The only thing I can do is I’m just going to take my son out of school and put him somewhere else or homeschool him,” the father added.
“Would you like it if somebody did that to you? Would you like it if somebody did that to your brother, your sister, your cousin or something? Would y’all like that? No. What makes it right for y’all to do that to my son?”
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