The father of a 7-year-old biracial girl whose hair was cut by a white teacher without her parents' knowledge has filed a $1 million lawsuit against the Michigan school district. The suit against Mount Pleasant Public Schools, filed Tuesday in federal court by Jimmy Hoffmeyer on behalf of his daughter Jurnee, alleges racial discrimination and names the elementary school's librarian, Kelly Mogg, and teacher's assistant Kristen Jacobs as defendants, MLive.com reported. The filing also accuses the Grand Rapids school district of ethnic intimidation, intentional infliction of emotional distress and assault and battery. The lawsuit argues that the child's constitutional rights were violated when Mogg took it upon herself to cut the student's hair in March after another student at Ganiard Elementary had clipped the kid's curls days earlier as a prank. 'I've heard people say, "It's only hair." But it's not only hair to her. That was her image, that was her self-esteem.' Hoffmeyer said. 'She has nightmares every night now.' According to the suit, first-grader Jurnee arrived home in March with nearly all her hair cut off, down to a couple of inches from her scalp Hoffmeyer notified the school's principal of the incident after the initial prank, but did not pursue further action 'because it was a child.' Instead, the girl's father took Jurnee to a salon to have the barber give her a dissymmetric cut. Two days after the initial hack job, however, Jurnee arrived home with her hair cut yet again. This time, though, the job was nowhere near salon-quality. According to the suit, the first-grader arrived home with nearly all her hair cut off, down to a couple of inches from her scalp, leaving her father - who is also biracial - and mother, Christie - who is white - horrified. 'Our kind of hair, you can’t just wet down and cut it,' he told WJRT. 'Even if they were trying to do it in the kindness of their heart, once they [saw] the outcome, they should have been like, "Yeah, we messed up. We should probably call him and let him know what just happened."' Hoffmeyer - who is biracial - filed the million-dollar lawsuit Tuesday, alleging 'racial discrimination' by school staffers' toward her daughter 'I asked what happened,' an irate Hoffmeyer told WJRT, upon seeing Jurnee's mangled mane. Hoffmeyer told the outlet that he initially scolded his daughter, saying, 'I thought I told you no child should ever cut your hair.' 'She said, "but dad, it was the teacher." The teacher cut her hair to even it out.' Hoffmeyer immediately contacted the school to complain, but was told that the teacher responsible - school librarian Mogg - would not be subjected to disciplinary action, aside from a note in the staffer's file.