Kinsie Johns is a third grade teacher in Lithia Springs, Georgia. She’s also the kind of teacher who makes me want to go back to third grade!
Kinsie Johns
After learning that one of her students was being teased for her hairstyle, Kinsie stepped in where other teachers may have just let the kids “work it out for themselves.”
The little girl was sporting a style known as “space-buns,” which led to her classmates and peers calling her “space-girl.”
Kinsie came alongside her student, and together they devised a plan to put an end to the name-calling.
“She told me yesterday that some students were making fun of her hair and picking on her,” Kinsie wrote on her Facebook page. “So, after a little planning with her and a written reminder on my hand, today, we showed up with the same hair just to prove a point.”
She said she wants all of her students to know that “it’s okay to be different.” Then quoted Dr. Seuss writing, “Why fit in when you were born to stand out!?”