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High School Teacher Arrested After Forcibly Cutting Student's Hair
945wfla.iheart.com ^ | Dec 7, 2018 | posted by Bill Galluccio

Posted on 12/07/2018 9:21:50 AM PST by Red Badger

A chemistry teacher at University Preparatory High School in Visalia, California was arrested after she forcibly cut a student's hair while singing the "Star-Spangled Banner." One of the students in Margaret Gieszinger's chemistry class recorded the disturbing incident, which showed the teacher ordering a male student to "take a seat" in front of the class and cutting off a piece of his hair and then tossing it over her shoulder. The video then cuts to the teacher grabbing a female student in an attempt to cut her hair, causing the girl and the other students in the class to run out of the room.

"We think she's going to try to be funny and be like, 'Oh did you really think I was going to cut his hair?' But she did cut a hair off, and she started singing the 'Star-Spangled Banner" and she was singing it really loudly as she ceremoniously tossed a chunk of hair behind her," one of the students told ABC30.

Another student said that Gieszinger, who had her teaching credentials suspended twice, in 2006 and 2017, had another freakout earlier in the week when she snapped at her students when she could not find a copy of a test.

Gieszinger was arrested and jailed on suspicion of felony child endangerment, and a judge set her bond at $100,000.

The Tulare County Office of Education has released a statement saying that they "promptly removed Ms. Gieszinger from her classroom" and that the 52-year-old teacher has been replaced by a "highly-qualified substitute teacher."

We take very seriously the safety of the students in classrooms and on the COS campus. We move decisively when questions of inappropriate and unprofessional conduct are brought to the attention of UPHS administration. In this instance, we promptly removed Ms. Gieszinger from her classroom and worked closely with the COS Police Department. We are reviewing all available information and will take the most severe employment action appropriate. Ms. Gieszinger will not return to her UPHS classroom.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; US: California
KEYWORDS: anothercrazyteacher; crazy; hair; school; teacher
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To: Snickering Hound

Awesome song from an awesome album


21 posted on 12/07/2018 9:50:14 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Red Badger

Meth?


22 posted on 12/07/2018 9:51:39 AM PST by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts)
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To: Slyfox
Borderline personality disorder?

Over the border from neurosis and well into psychosis?

23 posted on 12/07/2018 9:51:44 AM PST by Sooth2222 ("Every nation gets the government it deserves." -Joseph de Maistre)
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To: Red Badger

I’m beginning to think if people are too screwed up to do anything else a lot of them become teachers.


24 posted on 12/07/2018 9:54:57 AM PST by Catmom (We're all gonna get the punishment only some of us deserve.r)
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To: Red Badger

Wait one - muzzies can mutilate young girls with FGM and get away with it but a teacher gets arrested for cutting a student’s hair?


25 posted on 12/07/2018 9:56:41 AM PST by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: MPJackal; zoomie92

I would have locked her up without bond on a mental hold. How much of a synapse flash would it have taken for that scissors that close to a jugular or eyeball to do some serious damage.


26 posted on 12/07/2018 9:56:59 AM PST by Cold Heart
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To: Sooth2222

Had a teacher of mine in high school go off the deep end. Started talking strange, principal sat in on his classes later that day, was arrested and put in psych ward next day when found running down a major street in his underwear in freezing temps. Can happen out of the blue


27 posted on 12/07/2018 9:57:04 AM PST by rstrahan
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To: Snickering Hound

Quadrophenia as a legal defense. I love it.


28 posted on 12/07/2018 9:57:23 AM PST by gundog ( Hail to the Chief, bitches!)
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To: dfwgator

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fN4p2jBH5VY

The Who Cut My Hair

Quadrophenia 1973


29 posted on 12/07/2018 9:57:33 AM PST by Snickering Hound
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To: Sans-Culotte

a mind is a terrible thing to waste


30 posted on 12/07/2018 9:57:48 AM PST by morphing libertarian (Use Comey's Report; Indict Hillary now. --- Proud Smelly Walmart Deplorable)
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To: SkyDancer
Wait one - muzzies can mutilate young girls with FGM and get away with it but a teacher gets arrested for cutting a student’s hair?

And chasing screaming students wielding a large pair of scissors.

31 posted on 12/07/2018 9:59:50 AM PST by Snickering Hound
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To: Red Badger

she needs to be screened for drugs. Either that or she is just plain certifiably nuts, like way too many in that profession


32 posted on 12/07/2018 10:00:44 AM PST by drypowder
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To: Sooth2222
Was reading about Borderline because I think I have at least two family members who seem to have that problem.

Yeah, sounds like the teacher had a spike of psychosis.

33 posted on 12/07/2018 10:01:17 AM PST by Slyfox (Not my circus, not my monkeys)
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To: Snickering Hound

Thing is - it’s an interesting difference. I’m not saying she was right in doing what she did. If I were a parent I would be livid.


34 posted on 12/07/2018 10:03:30 AM PST by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: Red Badger

Going through ‘the change’?


35 posted on 12/07/2018 10:03:34 AM PST by McGruff
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To: Red Badger
Schools...I grew up in one of these places. They are not all filled up with eager innocents waiting to educated.

Given the setting, I vote serial temporary insanity.

(Did they slip some LSD in her coffee? Maybe the politically correct environment caused her to snap!)

36 posted on 12/07/2018 10:04:49 AM PST by Pete from Shawnee Mission
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To: zoomie92

Read the article


37 posted on 12/07/2018 10:05:38 AM PST by TexasGator (Z1z)
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To: Pete from Shawnee Mission

She had been suspended twice before....................


38 posted on 12/07/2018 10:07:46 AM PST by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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To: Red Badger

Alcohol and or drugs


39 posted on 12/07/2018 10:11:41 AM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: Red Badger

Teaching now-a-days would drive anyone nutty


40 posted on 12/07/2018 10:11:54 AM PST by falcon99
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