(CNN) A middle school teacher in New Hampshire cut off about three inches of a student's hair after the student wouldn't stop playing with it, the mother of the middle schooler says.

Jillian Miglionico's daughter attends Somersworth Middle School. Miglionico says the teacher told her daughter to stop playing with her hair or he would cut her hair off, according to CNN affiliate WMUR

CNN has called Miglionico but has not heard back.

"If you're going to act like that with a middle school student, I don't think that you should be able to be around and teach middle school students," the mother told WMUR. "I don't want this man around my child."

CNN called the middle school, but the school was not making comments on the situation and could not confirm whether the teacher was back in the classroom.

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