HOUSTON - A local mother is outraged by what she found on her 7-year-old daughter's body after she came home from school. The woman tells us her child received henna tattoos without her permission. 
 
 "Somebody tattooed my daughter without my permission," Tammy Samour said. 
 
 She was shocked when she picked up her daughter after school Monday. 
 
 "I asked what that was, and she said, 'Henna.' And I said, 'What is henna?'" Samour said. 
 
 Her daughter's hands were covered with an intricate brown design, known as a henna tattoo. The second-grader got the tattoos during a lesson on different cultures at Ed White Elementary School. 
 
 "Learning about culture is awesome, but I don't want it tattooed on my daughter, it is not our culture," Samour said. 
 
 The school did send an email as part of a weekly agenda to parents, informing them of the activity that would explore cultures from Spain, the United States, Australia, Israel and India. And in parenthesis, the email says, "will be doing henna." 
 
 "I didn't see the email, my husband did, but we didn't know what henna was," Samour said. 
 
 She said for the last two days she and the teacher have scrubbed her daughter's hands with nearly every cleaning product they could find. 
 
 "Especially that Christmas is next week. We have family photos, opening presents, church, and she is going to be wearing that on her hands throughout the holiday," Samour said. 
 
 The school district said they will take additional steps to inform parents in the future. 
 
 "We certainly will do a better job in the future to make sure that parents are informed of what this is and how long it will take, and again we regret that this family is upset about it," Elaina Polsen, Clear Creek Independent School District director of communications, said. 
 
 2015 Click2Houston/KPRC2 ||||| Tammy Samour with her daughter Leah (Photo: KHOU 11 News) 
 
 SEABROOK, Texas - A mother is upset after her 7-year-old daughter came home from school with her hands covered in Henna tattoos. 
 
 Before you even make it in the door of their Seabrook home, you can tell the Samour family is ready for Christmas. 
 
 Presents are under the tree, decorations are in place - but they're out of place too, on 7-year-old Leah Samour's hands. 
 
 "I saw her hands were decorated and asked her what is this and she said it's henna. I didn't know what that was," said Leah's mother Tammy Samour. 
 
 It was all a part of a Multicultural Day activity at Ed White Elementary. 
 
 The school district said it's about learning about other cultures, but Leah's mom doesn't want those cultural lessons tattooed on her daughter. 
 
 "We tried to get it off and it didn't budge," said Samour. It will wear off eventually, it's a painted-on dye, traditional in India and other cultures. 
 
 But when Samour started researching, she was concerned to find connections to the Hindu and Muslim faiths. 
 
 "It's upsetting to go through Christmas with another religion's celebratory symbolism all over my daughter's hands," she said. 
 
 Clear Creek ISD leaders have since apologized. "This is intended to celebrate diversity and not to be divisive," said Clear Creek ISD Spokesperson Elaina Polsen. 
 
 They did send an email home before Multicultural Day, saying henna would be used, but admit they didn't explain what it was. 
 
 "We certainly regret that we could have and we should have provided additional information as far as henna artwork," said Polsen. 
 
 They've even offered to Photoshop Leah's hands in the family's holiday photos, but her mom says that won't wipe away what happened. 
 
 "Exploring other cultures is a wonderful thing," said Samour. "But tattooing another culture's expressions on my daughter is not acceptable." 
 
 Leah Samour's hands after getting Henna tattoos at her school. (Photo: Provided) 
 
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– Another school lesson has ended poorly, this time in Texas. Houston's Ed White Elementary School held a Multicultural Day earlier this month, with the school explaining via email that the kids would learn about cultures in places ranging from Spain to Israel. The email, in parentheses, stated that the children "will be doing henna," a plant-based dye that's traditionally painted on the body in India, reports Click2Houston. Tammy Samour's husband read the email and didn't know what henna was. He does now. Tammy Samour, who didn't read the email, says she's outraged after her 7-year-old Leah came home from school with henna tattoos on her hands. "Somebody tattooed my daughter without my permission." Samour is particularly incensed because the activity occurred the week before Christmas week. "We have family photos, opening presents, church, and she is going to be wearing that on her hands throughout the holiday." KHOU reports the Clear Creek Independent School District offered to Photoshop Leah's hands in those holiday photos, but that wasn't enough to appease Samour. "Exploring other cultures is a wonderful thing. But tattooing another culture's expressions on my daughter is not acceptable. It's upsetting to go through Christmas with another religion's celebratory symbolism all over my daughter's hands." The district says it regrets not spelling out what henna is in the email, and says it will "certainly will do a better job in the future to make sure that parents are informed."