Teacher 'tried to burn off' schoolgirl's hair extension Courtney Blades-Wilkinson said when that failed, the teacher forced her and her friend, who also had extensions, to cut each other's hair. The girl's mother, Susan, 40, said she had rejected an apology from Graham School in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, and was demanding disciplinary action against the teacher. Courtney said the teacher tried to melt off the extension, consisting of two coloured strands, which she had got for her birthday. She said: "I said, 'It burns', but they just kept doing it. It was really scary and I asked the teacher to stop but they didn't look bothered. Her mother said the girls were not sure what kind of equipment had been used, but she thought it was "some kind of heat gun." "For a teacher to drag two children down to a science lab, sit them down, and try to melt glue from their heads is disgusting," she added. She said the deputy head teacher had agreed the girls could wear the extensions to school in the last few days before half-term. The head, Gary Hancock, said the school was "aware of the incident" in question, adding that the matter was under investigation