Fifth-grade teacher Ryan Oleson could relate when he heard about a student at Brandywine Elementary who felt self-conscious about losing his hair from chemotherapy treatments—hair loss that would reveal a surgical scar on the back of his head.

Teacher Ryan Oleson poses with 11-year-old Colton.

So Oleson, an 11-year teaching veteran at the school in Niles, let the boy shave his full head of hair in the school hallway with classmates looking on.

“A friend of mine and I decided we would do this in solidarity with the little guy,”

Source: Teacher Shaves Head for Student Battling Illness – Michigan Education Association