Investigation Finds No Racial Bias By Employee Who Cut Biracial Child’s Hair At Michigan School

The results of a third-party investigation determined that there was no racial bias at play when a Michigan school when a staff member cut a biracial girl’s hair.

According to CNN, the incident happened in March when 7-year-old Jurnee Hoffmeyer had her hair cut by a school librarian.

Christina Laster, the Director of Policy and Legislation for the National Parents Union,  said Jurnee’s ordeal began after she came home with a chunk of her hair missing and told her dad that another girl at school had cut it.

Her parents then took Jurnee to a professional hairstylist to fix her hair, and two days later, she came home crying with her hair trimmed shorter. 

The child said that the librarian had cut her hair during the school day. Laster claimed two other school employees were aware of the haircutting incident but didn’t report it.

The Hoffmeyer family believed the unauthorized haircut was due to racial bias and reported the incident to the school district. The family ended up transferring Jurnee out of the school after no action was taken against the employee.

The Mount Pleasant Public School district said in a statement that the investigation determined that the employee violated school policy by cutting the girl’s hair but that there was no evidence that the incident was “motivated by racial bias.”