Would You Be Angry if YOUR Child Came Home From Daycare With This?

[Jennasis]

So the teacher just crammed her dirty hoop earrings through this kid's closed earring holes??? Or does she keep a piercing gun on hand for such occasions?

I see a jobless woman in the near future.

 

[RNMOM]

Couldn't that be considered assault? I would think so. Bodily harm and all. What were they thinking and why would she think this is okay?

 

[minniecarousel]

On what planet would this be OK?

Why would the "teacher" think this was OK? It doesn't matter one bit that the child's ears had been pierced at one time.

 

[ocd4disney]

All I can add is....Grosssssss!!

 

[laurie31]

Oh wow, I would be BEYOND livid!! What about the risk of hepatitis? Or other blood-borne diseases! GROSS!!!

Even if she previously had piercings, it would be painful to cram earrings through closed holes, and the teacher's dirty earrings????

That poor little thing, complaining that her ears hurt - I guess they did! That's a terrible thing for a child to go though without someone to comfort them. And it should be the PARENT'S choice, not some daycare worker's. What possessed the teacher to think she should put hoop earrings on a 5 year old? So many levels of wrong here...

 

[Nolcrest]

I would be FUMING and the teacher would be FIRED. No way is this acceptable on any level.

I am a pre-school teacher. No way would this EVER, EVER be tolerated. Shame on KINDERCARE.

I wouldn't even change a child's hairstyle. The way they come in is the way they leave.

 

[dislaney]

No, this is not okay. Not sure what the so called teacher was thinking?

 

[Aisling]

If I were a litigating type, I'd sue, that's how angry I'd be.


Maybe the teacher came from a culture where this is no big deal??

 

[cornflake]

Yeah I'm not sue happy but the minute they DIDN'T fire that teacher would be the minute I filed some civil suits. Because.. .NOT OK. That's so beyond not ok I can't even begin. What is wrong with people?

 

[MnMomtoboys]

This wouldn't be ok if my Mother or sister did this behind my back so there is no way that it would be ok for a teacher.

 

[nuttylawprofessor]

I would be beyond livid. The teacher committed battery.

 

[jdb in AZ]

Since the child hadn't worn earrings in two years, I'm assuming the parents left them out for a reason, such as an infection, or the little girl didn't want momma cleaning the holes. When my DD insisted on getting her ears pierced she wasn't mature enough to deal with the pain of cleaning, turning the studs, so she stopped wearing earrings for quite awhile, then had them re-pierced.

Hooped ear-rings on a pre-schooler is just asking for problems with tearing -- in addition to the unsanitary condition, lack of parental permission, and on and on and on. I would definitely be finding another preschool unless/until the "teacher" was fired.

 

[herdtoDisney]

I'd retain an lawyer and file suit. I'd want the teacher charged with assault, also. Teacher had no right to alter the child's body in any way. What kind of crazy daycare is that place anyways?

 

[Mermaid02]

I would be beyond livid. The teacher committed battery.

That's what I was thinking. A child can't give consent for something like that can they? Wouldn't it be like holding an adult down and piercing their ears against their will?

I'd be beyond furious. Way Beyond!

 

[ilovefh]

Very angry! But, I think there is a tiny difference between her piercing them and putting earrings through already pierced ears. I think in the case of the former she should be fired. In the latter I would be okay if she was just disciplined. (Assuming she had never done anything questionable before.) For some reason though, and I am assuming here, I feel like what she did was pretty gutsy and may not be the first questionable thing she has done.

As someone who rarely wears earrings, my ears have closed up and I have shoved them through and that hurts. I'd be mad that my daughter was put through that pain. I'd be even more angry that she put her own dirty earrings in my daughter's ears.

Like anything else, looking in from the outside, I am sure there are three sides to this story: the parents, the teacher and the truth.

 

[Pixiedust34]

I'd be livid!

 

[cornflake]

That's what I was thinking. A child can't give consent for something like that can they? Wouldn't it be like holding an adult down and piercing their ears against their will?

I'd be beyond furious. Way Beyond!

Nope. Even if she was begging for them to do it, entirely of her own accord, it's no excuse whatsoever.

 

[deegack]

I'd be livid

 

[JVelasquez]

I would be outraged! If I had a daughter I would be upset if she spent the day with her Grandma and came home with pierced ears never mind finding a stranger had done it! It's just something as a mom I would want to do with my daughter.

Also, what did this teacher use to pierce this little girls ears?

 

[MrsDuck]

If they were not already pierced, I would be LIVID!! And then dirty earrings to boot? Another "head exploding" here..



The article is definitely confusing, but even if the child's ears had been previously pierced, you don't put dirty earrings in a child's ears!

This this this! EW!

I'm not a mom (yet) but I'd be furious.