Teachers have the responsibility of making sure their students have a safe and accepting environment to learn in, yet this doesn’t always happen, which is why one mom was nervous to send her little boy to school when he started going bald.
Third-grade student Dino Shuffield had mysteriously started losing his hair, and when his mom first noticed, she immediately brought him to the doctor to find out what was wrong with her son. After some tests, doctors told Dino he was suffering from Alopecia areata, an autoimmune disease that causes hair loss.
As time passed, his hair got thinner and thinner and bald patched started to emerge. Ultimately, he would lose all his hair and started thinking about shaving it, but was clinging to the hair he had left because he was afraid of what other kids would think.
Third-grade teacher Ehren Steiner found out what his student was dealing with and sat down to talk things through with him. “I just kind of brought it up, ‘Hey man, I’ll shave mine, too, if that would make it easier,’ and I told him to think about if for the rest of the school day,” said Steiner.
At the end of the day, Dino told his teacher that he was going to shave his head over the weekend. By Monday, Dino was nervous to show off his new look to classmates, but then saw that Steiner had lived up to his promise and showed up to class with a completely bald head.
“My jaw dropped. I’m like, ‘He actually did it,'” said Dino. “It stinks sometimes to go through things on your own, and I think if you can have somebody to walk through things with, it makes life more enjoyable,” Steiner said.
Watch the entire video below to see this little boy’s adorable reaction to seeing his teacher’s new look.
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