Illinois Mom Shares Teacher’s Note Complaining About Daughter’s Coconut Oil-Scented Natural Hair


A mother, Tionna Norris, in Illinois was outraged after receiving a note from her 3-year-old daughter’s teacher complaining about her coconut oil-scented natural hair, according to CBS News.

On Monday, October 10, Norris received a note from her daughter’s teacher, Carol, at the Raggedy Anne Learning Center in Elmhurst, claiming that the “children were complaining that her hair ‘stinks'” because of the coconut oil applied to Amia’s hair.

The note went on to say that “if you have to apply this daily – please do so lightly, so the kids don’t tease her.”

Norris was furious and shared the teacher’s note on Facebook, which has since gone viral, with thousands of shares.

The caption on the image read, “Applies the same amount of coconut oil. You all are going to feel that black girl magic. Sincerely, unapologetically black mom. P.S.: Coconut oil has no stinky smell.”

In a Facebook post, Norris wrote that she was “extremely offended and hurt” after reading the note because the teacher assumed the coconut oil smell was coming from her daughter because she has natural hair, which she calls “ridiculous.”

She added that she did not apply coconut oil to her daughter’s hair that day and claims that the incident is “stereotypical.”

Norris’ post continued as follows.

“How the note is presented, it seems as though she [Amia] was being teased and that hurt me because she’s just a baby and I deserve to know something like to my face. You can’t tell a mother “your child is being teased, fix it.” H*** no! I need to know which kid so I can address their mother as well as what you did to rectify the situation.”

After receiving the teacher’s note, Norris stated that she went to the school director and uncovered that her daughter was not being bullied at the school and she was quite popular.

The Illinois mother claims the teacher probably wasn’t used to the smell of coconut oil, so she wrote the note and fabricated the story to stop her from applying too much oil to her daughter’s hair.

However, the school has taken “full responsibility and understands why it’s so offensive. They also would like to apologize to anyone the note may have offended.”

It was alleged that the teacher was remorseful for offending and hurting the mother and daughter, but Norris claims she only showed concern when the Facebook post went viral.

Norris said, “[S]he does not give a d*** about how I feel or how her employee made me feel.”

“All she cares about is her business and her reputation. All I care about is my child. She [the teacher] kept calling me, telling me what I need to do. That’s the reason all this happened, you telling me what I need to do.

“Let’s for the sake of argument say Amia’s hair did stink and the bullying really did happen (but it didn’t) the note should not have been written in such a way.”

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“Amia is happy and has reassured me that no one ever bullied her,” Norris wrote on Facebook. “We now have an understanding where if anything is an issue I will be notified in person and not through a note, which is up for assumption. Do I still believe the teacher didn’t have ill intentions? Not for a second because the way she tried to talk to me about how she thought my daughter smelled, which she is the only person who felt that way, was absolutely and totally unacceptable.”

“Thank you all for the concern and the kind words on my baby girl we truly appreciate it but the situation has been handled and I’m glad it was quick and genuine.”

Amia has since been removed from the school, and Norris no longer wants to address the issue for the sake of her “sanity and unborn child.”

[Featured Image by Tionna Norris/Facebook]

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