Teacher under fire for styling student's tangled hair in class

A recently posted photo of a young girl's hair being transformed from "ridiculously tangled" to perfectly styled is going viral - and sparking some controversy.

It started when the child's teacher posted the side by side photo on her Facebook account.

The post reads, in part: "One of my students came to school today with her hair full of knots, lint, and ridiculously tangled."

The teacher goes on to say: "It just broke my heart so badly that I refused to let her leave school today the same way she came. When I finished, she looked at herself and said 'aww, so pretty.'"

While many agree that the teacher may have meant well, many are saying she overstepped her boundaries.