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

[meggiebeth]

That is disgusting. I would want the teacher to lose her job. Isn't it just common sense not to pierce young children's ears without the parent's permission? Putting in dirty earrings to newly pierced ears carrys an even bigger risk of infection.

 

[kathie859]

Isn't there a state agency that licenses daycares? I'd be contacting them and reporting this facility. I can't believe that an adult would place earrings in a child's pierced ears without parental consent.

OP....I'd be so not letting this go.

 

[TDC Nala]

so did the teacher actually pierce the kid's ears, or were the kid's ears already pierced and the teacher put her own earrings on the kid?

I see the kid had pierced ears but they were closed.

I was 11 when I had mine pierced and they drill it into you about keeping the holes clean until they heal.

Either way I don't do the sharing pierced earrings thing...unless the earrings are cleaned first.

Someone said it should be considered that it might be a cultural difference...what culture shares pierced earrings?

 

[HamTown]

In many states you cannot return pierced earrings to a store once they have been purchased and you cannot try them on. It is considered a public health issue.

Probably no big deal unless there is an infection, but there is always the risk of scratching the ear with the post and drawing blood which could lead to transmission of disease.

A new piercing or forcing earrings through old holes definitely increases the risk of a virus or bacteria being transmitted.

 

[zurgswife]

so did the teacher actually pierce the kid's ears, or were the kid's ears already pierced and the teacher put her own earrings on the kid?

I see the kid had pierced ears but they were closed.

I was 11 when I had mine pierced and they drill it into you about keeping the holes clean until they heal.

Either way I don't do the sharing pierced earrings thing...unless the earrings are cleaned first.

Someone said it should be considered that it might be a cultural difference...what culture shares pierced earrings?

The way I understand it is that they were healed over holes. So, technically she didn't pierce them she just pushed earrings through previous holes. Yet, I've done this and it can be very painful depending upon how long the holes have spent growing back.

 

[Mrs.Malone]

This defies common sense.
I was thinking however that a long time ago I lived in Texas and there were some women there who were completely aghast that my daughter's ears were not pierced. More than once, someone I barely knew offered to have their mother or grandmother pierce DD's ears and they were almost offended when I declined. Maybe, this employee was someone who was raised that way and didn't know any better? That's the only explanation I can think of. She had to have known she would be found out.

 

[CurlyGirl]

Why would a teacher let a student wear her earrings? I cannot figure that one out! Even if the student said "I like your earrings!", you don't take them out of your ears and let her wear them!

 

[englishteacha]

Heads would roll if it were my child. Even if her ears were previously pierced, and she were begging to wear earrings while at daycare, the teacher could easily have said, "If you want to wear earrings, you need to talk to your mommy." Heck, I can't apply a bandaid on my students (big kids) without gloves and documentation. Putting an earring in? No way.

 

[duffy]

My head would explode. Literally.

You do know what literally means, right?

 

[Ceila]

You do know what literally means, right?

 

[MrsPete]

How I read it is that teacher #1 pieced the child's ears and put her own hoop earrings in the child's ears and then teacher #2 responded to the child's compliant about her ears hurting. It was then that it was discovered that the ears had been pieced by teacher #1.

Yeah, that's why I'm not clear on exactly what happened.

For certain, Teacher #1, the ear-piercing teacher, is wrong.

But I'm not sure whether Teacher #2 was part of the problem or not. If she was aware that the ear-piercing had happened at school without parental permission, then she's totally in the wrong. On the other hand, if she thought that the mom had pierced the child's ears and had sent her to daycare without earrings (or thought that the child had lost her earrings), then she might've been trying to prevent the holes from closing up -- if so, that's still misguided, but not on the same level as taking it upon yourself to pierce the child's ears.

I don't personally can't share the outrage about the "dirty earrings" -- not if the earrings've been worn by an adult whose earring-piercing holes are totally closed. If the holes are healed, there's no bodily fluids there. It's no different from putting on a ring that someone else has worn. Also, it's quite possible that Teacher #2 wiped them down with alcohol before putting them into the child's ears.

Still, that doesn't excuse putting hoops into a child's ears. With a small child, that's just asking for trouble.

So, I say that Teacher #1 is clearly in the wrong and -- if the story's been reported truthfully -- deserves to be fired. She's shown a serious lack of judgement. But the jury's still out on Teacher #2 -- we can't hang her on this amount of information.

Here's another article with more info. Apparently the little girl had pierced ears but hadn't worn earrings for two years.

Now that does change things, but wouldn't a child's ears have "closed up" if she didn't wear earrings for two years? I mean, my ears wouldn't "close up" in that amount of time because they've been pierced for decades, but a child's ears wouldn't be healed completely.

 

[tlbwriter]

This defies common sense.
I was thinking however that a long time ago I lived in Texas and there were some women there who were completely aghast that my daughter's ears were not pierced. More than once, someone I barely knew offered to have their mother or grandmother pierce DD's ears and they were almost offended when I declined. Maybe, this employee was someone who was raised that way and didn't know any better? That's the only explanation I can think of. She had to have known she would be found out.

I understand that there are some cultures that consider it important to pierce a baby girl's ears. But a daycare teacher who doesn't understand that she doesn't get to impose her culture onto someone else's child is no excuse. What if it was an uncircumcised boy?

 

[Mrs.Malone]

I understand that there are some cultures that consider it important to pierce a baby girl's ears. But a daycare teacher who doesn't understand that she doesn't get to impose her culture onto someone else's child is no excuse. What if it was an uncircumcised boy?

Right, certainly not an excuse at all and I think the employee should be fired. Because even if it's a cultural difference, someone who is that out of touch with what's acceptable in a childcare setting shouldn't be there.
I was just trying to make sense of how someone could possibly think it was okay to do something so incredibly ridiculous.

 

[DorkyDisneyMom]

I work at a daycare. I can't even imagine thinking this was even remotely a good idea! The teacher would have been fired so fast at where I work. There is no excuse whatsoever for what she did. None!