For teacher twinning with student, 'ugly hair' bullying was unacceptable

Teacher's proactive Facebook status goes viral

MIAMI – When a little boy told one of her students that she had ugly hair, a school teacher gave the girl a pep talk about the unacceptable bullying. But she didn't stop there.

Ana Ferreira, a teacher in Sao Paulo, Brazil, copied the little girl's hair style and showed up to school with it the next day. 

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"When she saw me, she came running to hug me and say that I was beautiful," Ferreira wrote on a Facebook status.

Ferreira wrote she told the girl, "Today, I am beautiful like you." Ferreira shared a picture of herself twinning with her student. Her post was shared some 30,000 times. 

 


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