my AT sent me a picture of one of our students with his new haircut (his dad sent the pic to her; yes, we are that tight with our families, they text us anything!). A little Afro-Latino boy, he had a full mane of curly hair that was a mixture of his Hispanic dad and Black mom's texture. Most of the time, it was in a low ponytail, sometimes it was corn-rowed and one time he wore it out. Whatever the case, we laughed over the pic because now he looked like a member of a racially ambiguous 90s rnb group (LOL) instead of the J.Martinez we've grown to love!
Then the conversation took a turn.
She told me J wanted the haircut b/c 4 boys in our class don't want to play with him cause they think he's weird and they call him a girl and even gay.
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Wait, what??
and when she told me what four boys were doing the teasing, I went ape shit.
HOW DAAAAAAAAARE!?!?!? RETAINEE AARON? AND OTHER OBNOXIOUS AARON!? AND GANGLY ASS TARIQ?!?! AND NOSEBLEED MIKHAIL!?!?!?!?!?!?!?? OH BITCH!
then the hood mama in me calmed down and the big sister came out.
yo, my sister didn't smile for TWO YEARS while she was in elementary school? you know why?! because we had gaps and unfortunately for her, it wasn't cute in her generation.
so the fact one of my kindergartners went home, told his dad he wants to cut off his ponytail (mind you, dad has a ponytail too. J had a pony so he could be like his papi.) so other kids won't think he's weird cut me deep. Please believe i'm having a talk with 4 sets of parents tomorrow... monkey ass lil boys done lost they mind... you have the wrong teacher for that isht...
but are we really starting the foolishness in kindergarten? have times changed that much that people aren't 'doodie-heads' anymore but actually called 'gay' and 'weird'? what happened to, "YOU'RE NOT MY FRIEND ANYMORE!" being the worst thing you can hear when you're 5 years old? Not ready for this!!
1 returned the favor:
GET IN THAT!!! Go straight hood momma bear on their parents!! Make the kids cry!!
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