Son cut his hair in school

Year 1 has a ratio of 1:30 so the teacher isn't going to be closely supervising every child.

By Year 1 children should be able to be trusted with scissors, they will have had scissors accessible in class in Reception and Nursery too.

Why do you think he wasn’t being naughty?
You’d rather blame the teacher for not having the ability to have eyes on 30 children at once, than admit your 5 year old knew bloody well he wasn’t supposed to use the scissors on his own head?

I didn’t notice one of mine had chunks of hair missing and I only had two to look after!

It was a mixed reaction. If it could happen to me being pre occupied with just two pretty well behaved kids in the same room and yet a teacher with possibly 30 kids some which may have demands and additional learning needs.
At the same time if it was my kid I would be wanting to find out what happened.

I was so upset at the time with my two. I remember crying when my husband walked in from work.

That! My own daughter did it at school at the same age, and when I was teaching, a kid in my class did it!

Fortunately the parent of the kids in my class just laughed, just as I did when my DD did it (after the first minute or two of shock!)

Because she didnt notice while supervising two children, not 28.

Did your friends' children never have an accident at home or do something stupid or silly? And that's just with a couple of kids to look after , not 30.

My DS cut another boys hair at a similar age in class. When questioned he said the other boy said his hair was too long, so DS obliged.

Thankfully the other parent found it quite funny and the teacher was apologetic.

Well, you certainly should have no doubt at this point that the teacher has far too much on her plate. She definitely should have noticed that at least two of her students were missing chunks of their hair, even if it's understandable that she missed the actual cutting.

I'd be concerned.

I would be seriously unimpressed with a 5 year old messing with a scissors and he would know it.

He's old enough to know better.
Time for a firm talking to IMO, to behave himself.

Ah I voted the wrong way round and have changed it to YANBU

Another child had also cut up a tennis ball behind the sink

I’d really question this tbh. At that age they are given safety scissors, which are passable but not fine with paper even. Yes, they will cut hair and anything thin and weak but it’s not like a finger can be cut off. I’d really question whether a tennis ball could be cut up with safety scissors, even with decades of scissor use under my belt I don’t think I could achieve that with those.

I did it to my friend when I was about 6 with safety scissors.

both our mums were sat in the same room as us

I’ve put YABU as this happened to me whilst I was stood in the same room as my daughters.

She was 3, my older daughter was 5. I was cooking tea and they were at the dining table (kitchen/diner)
I was mortified 🤦‍♀️. I only had 2 people to look after who were in the same room.
i was so pre occupied cooking a nice tea for us all that I didn’t even notice until we sat down to eat 😂

I did it at home in the 90s. Thank goodness noone would have considered reporting to social services.

Can any of those judge parents say the have never taken their eye off the ball? No. At best, they have just been lucky that nothing happened when they did.

Twice I've had 8 years old in year 3 cut their own hair...definitely know better at that age. Both times the parents blamed the children not me. If they had blamed me I would have been a bit annoyed. Your reaction sounds normal to me.

When our youngest did it around the same age, he did it at home with pinking scissors from a craft kit in his Charlie and Lola magazine. Had a very interesting “fringe” for a while.

I dont think it is naughty to cut your own hair, theyve seen adults do it and are trying it out themselves. Its silly to say it could have been worse as presumably he knows not to cut another child’s ear off, and someone would have alerted the teacher if he had tried.

Teachers do t have eyes in the back of their heads any more than parents do. It’ll grow back and he probably won’t do it again.

Let me guess. Class photo is coming up? 😁

Years ago a boy in my class cut off one of my plaits - I thought it was funny and thought I could just have one in the middle. I was about 6 at the time.
My mothers didn't think it was funny but said there is nothing to be done about it now - it's your hair you find funny and have to live with it. In the end she cut the other one off.

My DD too cut her fringe at nursery, aged 3. Nursery phoned to tell me and were expecting me to be furious, from what they said afterwards. I thought it was really funny. I didn't tell her off but did talk about the importance of not using scissors near her face. Then I took her for a haircut and the hairdresser laughed too, because it happens all the time. 20 years later, we still laugh at the photos. So even in a small nursery class with two adults present, it happens. Work of an instant for memories of a lifetime (in your case, wedding photos) 🤣

Argh if someone cut my DD's hair she would be devastated as would I TBH.

In your case the kids did it to themselves and
there was no real harm done and I can see it could be hard to prevent.

I'm less in line with those laughing off one kid cutting another's hair without consent. That is really really not ok.

My DD cut her own hair in reception. She actually cut a boy's hair, got told off, then retrieved the scissors and cut her own. She actually did a really good job and cut herself a perfect fringe. Her teacher phoned me and let me know.

I don't think anyone thought it was anything but quite funny. It is quite typical of my DD to absent mindedly continue to do something she's been told not to do. It isn't malicious, just like the world sometimes washes over her and she's still there doing her thing.