Indian Headdress

In Nieman School, where our five children attended, they had traditions like the third grade always put on an Indian program. When Susan was in the third grade her teacher asked me to make an Indian headdress. She sent it home with the instructions and lots of feathers. When my son, Scott, was in the third grade I hoped he would get to wear the headdress but his teacher was angry with him. I went to the principal and stated my case that I had made it and I thought my son should get to wear it. The principal agreed. That did not gladden the heart of the teacher. I talked to her and told her that "Headdress better be on my kid." I went to the program. The teacher put the headdress on Scott on one side of the stage and then ran around to the other side of the stage and took it off of him immediately so when the children sat down in front of the stage after their part he was bare headed while the others had headbands with a feather stuck in them. I guess she won. She was removed from teaching after that year. She should not mess with the wife of a school board member.