Administrators investigate guidance counselor's decision to pull out student's grill
POMPANO BEACH, Fla. (WSVN) -- School administrators are investigating an incident between an elementary school student and a guidance counselor who felt inclined to remove the child's grill.
Vincent Holloman attends fifth grade at Charles Drew Elementary School. Holloman's father says he rewarded his son for his studious qualities by buying him gold grills. "So I said, 'I am going to get you some gold teeth,'" said Kevin Stokes, the boy's father.
School officials were not so happy with the $500 gold crowns that decorated Holloman's bottom teeth. A guidance counselor at school confronted the student and demanded to know if the grills on his teeth were real. "She got a napkin and put it in my mouth and was yanking, yanking and turning it and turned my teeth," explained Holloman.
After the incident, Holloman reported to Broward General Medical Center to seek treatment for his aching gums. "You can't just yank them out, you need to go to a dentist to have them removed out," said the boy's father.
According to the Broward County Schools' Code of Conduct, they do not ban decorative dental work, but, according to a school spokesman, the principal has the discretion to do so if clothing, jewelry or any other item is a distraction to the school's environment.
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