Mother Calls Out School After Son's Hair is Cut Without Permission

A woman from Rivers State, Jennifer Atuegbu, has caused a stir on social media. She is accusing her two-year-old son's school of cutting part of his hair without asking her first.

She claims the school has not explained how this happened. She did not mention the name of the school.

Jennifer first shared her concerns in a video on Facebook on Wednesday. She discovered the unusual haircut when she went to pick up her son from school.

Though she later deleted the video, she posted a written update. She also released a long video explaining what happened.

“Nigerians please come to my aid,” she wrote. “I went to pick my son from school and discovered that his hair was shaved and it gave him a little wound. My son is two years old and can’t express himself properly.

“The school is trying to sweep this away. They are not taking the situation seriously. They are not taking responsibility.

“They are protecting the teacher and minder. Where is my son’s hair? Who did this to my son?”

The post had a photo showing part of the back of the child's head shaved.

In a video on Friday, Jennifer explained that the incident happened on Wednesday. She arrived at the school around 3 p.m. to pick up her son.

“My name is Jennifer. I am the mother of a two-year-old whose hair was shaved in school,” she said. “Everything happened on Wednesday. I went to pick my son up on a regular day around 3 p.m. When I arrived the teacher brought him out for me. He immediately ran and hugged me and I noticed a shave at the back of his head.”

When she asked the teacher about it, the teacher looked surprised and said she did not know anything about the haircut.

“The teacher was acting surprised, telling me she doesn’t know. Someone that is supposed to take care of my son,” she said.

Jennifer added that the teacher then asked the child’s minder, but the minder also said she knew nothing.

“I went to the administrator and reported. She was so surprised and speechless. She called the minder and the teacher, asking what happened but both said nothing.”

Besides the missing hair, Jennifer noticed an injury on one of her son's fingers.

“Besides the hair, I noticed they cut his left fingers. I asked the teacher but she said she’s not aware that they don’t cut nails in school.”

She said she kept asking the school for answers but got none.

“I was dumbfounded, looking at people that were supposed to explain to me. I was asking, who took my son’s hair and what are they using it for,” she said.

The mother said she did not want to involve the police because she had a good relationship with the school.

“I didn’t want to fly to the police station because these are the people I’ve been dealing with,” she explained.

Jennifer returned to the school on Thursday with a relative to demand answers.

According to her, the administrator promised to look into the matter but did not give her an explanation right away.

“You people are not being accountable. Who took my son’s hair?” she recalled asking the administrator.

“She was beating around the bush, saying ‘this is absurd.'”

The administrator finally told her, “Ma’am you have to go, we’ll investigate the matter and get back to you.”

Frustrated by the response, Jennifer made another video outside the school.

“That was why I ran outside and made that video and as soon as I made that video everybody came out,” she said.

She insisted the haircut did not happen at home.

“My child is my only child. I live alone and I don’t have any help. There’s no shaving stick in my house. There’s no razor blade. That thing was done in the school,” she said.

She also mentioned that trying to ask her son about it has not worked because he is too young.

“I’ve tried asking my son but he’s two years old and cannot express himself that much. Even when they took him to the classroom to point out who did it to him he couldn’t express himself.”

She called the incident an attack on her child. She is worried about both his injury and what happened.

“I can’t sleep well because in as much as this is an assault on my child. Because a weapon was used on him and he bled.

“Apart from being checked at the spiritual level. This is an assault on my son.”

The video has gone viral on Facebook, sparking many reactions and calls for a full investigation into what happened.

The police spokesperson in Rivers State, Agape Kaborlo, did not respond to calls and a text message for comments.