When teachers are the bad guys

Everyday we send our kids to school, trusting they will be protected and cared for by their teachers. But what happens when teachers don't protect? A friend of mine recently had to schedule a conference with her sons' preschool teacher and principal after the teacher removed the child's Superman tee-shirt in class. The reason; teacher said my friends son, kept acting out pretending to be Superman.

We can all think of hundreds of ways the teacher could of disciplined the student but instead the she removed his shirt because he was disrupting class. This story reminds me of a story last month out of Milwaukee. A little girl in the first grade was playing with her beaded-braids and her teacher became frustrated and cut the little girls' hair!

What do we do when teachers turn out to be the bad guys? Teachers are human, they get angry and frustrated like the rest of us. Should we hold them up to a different standard because they are teachers? In Milwaukee the teacher was fined and the little girl sent to a different class.