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A male classmate "J" asked my daughter (9) a bunch of sexually graphic questions and she told me. I reported it to the teacher and principal. J said it was another boy and then when he found out that the boy was absent that day he blamed it on another kid. J's parents stood by his story and the only punishment was his losing a recess. What a joke. What does that teach a kid?
Schools are completely toothless because, like their parenting counter parts, they don't know any effective discipline tools to replace corporal and punitive measures. AND parents today are way more likely to back their kids' and accept their kids' lies that of old.
Schools are completely toothless because, like their parenting counter parts, they don't know any effective discipline tools to replace corporal and punitive measures. AND parents today are way more likely to back their kids' and accept their kids' lies that of old.
J is learning that he can just get away with whatever he does because Mommy and Daddy think he can do no wrong.
Schools can't win these days, they get criticized for what parents decide are harsh punishments, and criticized for not disciplining. At a district I used to work in, a girl in middle school got detention for table-hopping at lunch to go talk to random friends (they had a rule to find a table and stay there), and her father actually tried to sue saying the school violated her "Constitutional right to free speech and free assembly" Over detention, for goodness' sake! When I went to school, if I got disciplined at school I also got disciplined at home, nowadays the parents get lawyers...
That happened to my daughter when she was in 4th grade. The boys started with the dirty questions in the fall. By February it had escalated to squeezing her bottom, pulling her bra straps, and trying to lift her skirt whenever she wore a dress to school. The school talked to the boys involved and it stopped for a day or two, then started up worse than before, whenever the kids were unsupervised. My daughter was wearing a thick jacket all the time to try to keep the boys from getting her bra straps, and she was getting heat rashes.
We switched to online school in the 5th grade. It's not the solution for everyone, but it has been for us.
Schools can't win these days, they get criticized for what parents decide are harsh punishments, and criticized for not disciplining.
The standard formula in this forum for school discipline threads is "my kid was unfairly punished" or "some other kid was not punished enough". Every time. Oh and "my kid is a good kid (honors student, captain of the sport team, POTUS, etc., and didn't really mean to do xyz, why can't the admin understand that?"
That happened to my daughter when she was in 4th grade. The boys started with the dirty questions in the fall. By February it had escalated to squeezing her bottom, pulling her bra straps, and trying to lift her skirt whenever she wore a dress to school. The school talked to the boys involved and it stopped for a day or two, then started up worse than before, whenever the kids were unsupervised. My daughter was wearing a thick jacket all the time to try to keep the boys from getting her bra straps, and she was getting heat rashes.
We switched to online school in the 5th grade. It's not the solution for everyone, but it has been for us.
That's awful that your daughter had to go through that. I'm so sorry.
The standard formula in this forum for school discipline threads is "my kid was unfairly punished" or "some other kid was not punished enough". Every time. Oh and "my kid is a good kid (honors student, captain of the sport team, POTUS, etc., and didn't really mean to do xyz, why can't the admin understand that?"
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Over detention, for goodness' sake! When I went to school, if I got disciplined at school I also got disciplined at home, nowadays the parents get lawyers...
