Sherry McNeily said her 11-year-old daughter Hannah walked in a Childersburg Middle School bathroom May 7th to untangle a knot in her hair and walked out with an unwelcome haircut. "A 5th grader from a different class came in and Hannah asked her will you help me finger the knot out of my hair," said Sherry McNeily.
McNeily said the other student took out some scissors and snipped off 8 inches of her daughter's hair. "Until two weeks ago she could sit on her hair. You can see all the different lengths where she just took the scissors and went right across," said Sherry McNeily.
She pointed to Hannah McNeil's uneven hair length as proof. "We have not done anything and we will not trim it up. That's just the way it is," said Sherri McNeily.
Mrs. McNeily said any parent would be outraged if this happened to their child, but because her family is United Pentecostal it is an especially big deal. "One of our basic, fundamental doctrines is that a woman's hair should be uncut. We get that out of Corinthians where it talks about how a woman's hair is her glory and she has power on her head with her uncut hair," said Sherry McNeily.
However McNeily did not think school administrators were taking it very seriously.
A Public Information Officer for Talladega County Schools issued this response Wednesday."Administrators at both the school and central office investigated this reported incident thoroughly and could not find any facts that support the parent's allegations," said Gayle E. Jones.
But according to Sherry McNeily, it was the second such incident to happen at the school where she has served as a volunteer teacher. She said the first time she called the other child's mother at home and the child confessed. "The next day they did discipline that child at school, but not until I had pushed it with that mother," said Sherry McNeily.
McNeily said the Superintendent agreed to look in to the matter and get back in touch with the family, but never did.
Ok, now I understand her being upset and all, but that bolded statement just blew me away!
I was blasted on this forum by some here for pointing out that this belief is widespread when I posted a blog from a young girl stating the same thing.
Hmmmm.....
But the real crime is that the mother won't fix her daughter's hair and is leaving it looking horrible!
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But the real crime is that the mother won't fix her daughter's hair and is leaving it looking horrible!
I just don't understand that reasoning from the mother. Why subject her daughter to more ridicule? Kids can be very cruel-- and you know this child will be made fun of because of her hair. I would like to think that MOST mothers would just trim it off evenly so that the child won't be ridiculed by her peers and let it grow back out evenly.
It's not the child's cut hair that the mother needs to be overly concerned about. It's the PRIDE she has in having "uncut hair" that seems to mean more to her than the feelings of her child.
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Religious persecution? Give me a break.
No not this case. But the other case (in Texas) may be just that.
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I just don't understand that reasoning from the mother. Why subject her daughter to more ridicule? Kids can be very cruel-- and you know this child will be made fun of because of her hair. I would like to think that MOST mothers would just trim it off evenly so that the child won't be ridiculed by her peers and let it grow back out evenly.
It's not the child's cut hair that the mother needs to be overly concerned about. It's the PRIDE she has in having "uncut hair" that seems to mean more to her than the feelings of her child.
I agree. It's bad enough that she had a hair cut, but does she now have to explain why she looks like she was butchered by someone who was blind in one eye and couldn't see out of the other?
My daughter had uncut hair until her and her brother, when she was 5, decided to cut her pigtails half off.
The result? She had so many layers that an additional 8 inches (they cut about 7) had to be cut off. I was upset, but hey, it's just hair.
She had short hair until about three years ago when she decided that she no longer wants to cut her hair. She's 14. She can do with it as she pleases.
In three years, it's grown from her shoulders to her bum. But if she decided to cut it to her neck tomorrow, that's ok with me too. It's her hair, not mine. LOL!
I was never anal about uncut hair even when I believed in the doctrine. It's just hair.
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Religious persecution? Give me a break.
Since we are talking about a couple of 11 year old girls, one would have to believe that the other child cut their girl's hair with full knowledge of the girl's beliefs.
I don't believe that to be the case.
I think the mother is going way overboard in her demands.
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Well sure, commie liberals in the education system believe that schools should replace the churches anyway.
OK this is TIC I guess? It's hard to tell where you are coming from.
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Was this an actual newspaper story? These type of stories make oneness pentecostals look like amish people.
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