An Oregon student's mom says she might have been grateful if a school employee had given her son a good haircut.
But when her eight year old son returned from school with "next to nothing" on his head, she threatened to sue for the bad hair cut administered by a school employee without her permission.
Rather than head for the courthouse, The West Linn-Wilsonville School District agreed to pay the mom $10,000 to settle the case.
The boy, who is in the district's special education program at Cederoak Park Primary School, got the haircut on October 11th.
"First I was shocked," the mother told the newspaper. "Then I was embarrassed that I didn't have the money to get him a haircut. And then I was mad... I thought, 'What nerve. How invasive.' "
Invasive to the tune of ten grand, that is.
The single mother said she tried to keep her son's hair looking neat. "There was one stinking day, and I'm not lying, that I didn't brush his hair," she was quoted as saying.
The school's superintendent said the employee was wrong to play barber. "If someone needs a haircut, we'd be more than happy to go into our wallets to give them 20 bucks." Now they're reaching deep to fork over the $10,000, while not admitting any liability for the haywire hairdo. "We settled this case primarily because of the inordinate cost of defending," he said.
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