Curtis Got Slapped! mom is a jazz musician [Updated]

If you live in Kansas City and you haven’t heard that Curtis Got Slapped!, you got another thing coming — that is, when Lisa Henry Bowen finds you. A teacher allegedly slapped Lisa Henry Bowen’s son, Curtis, in class at Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary School, according to Bowen’s gigantic 40-page letter that Bowen CC’d to President Obama, Vice President Biden, three senators, and more than 20 other officials.

You can read more of this lady’s crazy demands over at The Plog, thanks to Mandy Oaklander. Here are a few of them now:

Curtis shall receive, among many other things: $13,500 worth of Wal-Mart gift cards, a free college education, two trips to Disney World, nine years of private tennis lessons on the Plaza, season tickets to the opera, theater, and ballet, almost a decade’s worth of psychological counseling by “the best black child psychologist in the country,” a whole orchestra’s worth of new musical instruments, a three-week trip to Africa at a five-star hotel, and a personal audience with President Obama.

But, right now, we’re more interested in the fact that Bowen is also a local jazz musician. Who knew?