Texas Parents Outraged After Students Share Tattoo Needle In Class

In bizarre news you might have missed, parents at a North Texas middle school are outraged after finding out their students were giving each other tattoos- with the same needle! Obviously an investigation is underway because there are several questions about how this even happened!

The incident happened at Travis Intermediate in the Greenville ISD, which is northeast of Dallas, on February 27. The illegal tattoo session was reported to police after a parent noticed their son came home with fresh ink on his arm. Ashley Armstrong says she received a call from the school nurse who urged her to take her son, 11-year-old Jordan, to get medical tests done.

Thankfully, Jordan's tests didn't come with bad results, but Armstrong tells Fox 4 News that she wants answers since apparently the tattooing went down inside a classroom. Where was the supervision? Students said that there as at least one teacher in the classroom while the students tattooed each other.

Armstrong says her son did confirm that the needle was used several times. The school also says that the ink was not permanent. In response to the incident, Greenville ISD confirmed that the in-school tattooing of students did occur and as a result, the "teachers assigned to the classrooms were suspended pending the outcome of an investigation." Greenville ISD said it is working with law enforcement, but they didn't reveal exactly how many other students were tattooed.

Middle school can be a difficult transition for many students, and now it seems like this is a crazy event that is staying with these students forever.