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My initial reaction is: lawyer up. The principal is allowing a hostile environment toward your daughter to perpetuate. And her solution is to punish your daughter, rather than removing the misbehaving child.
You should ask if the parents of the problematic child have been notified of their son's behavior. Have you already told her that removing your daughter from the class, wen she's done nothing wrong, is unacceptable, and that you want the inappropriate behavior stopped?
The boy doesn't seem ready for school.
Completely agree. I would definitely press the school further and if that includes legal action don't hesitate. OP, Your daughter being removed from the class because she's the victim seems senseless. Sounds like a horrible situation all together.
This is your child and you must protect her and others that this might be happening to! Go to the school tomorrow and demand this child be removed from your daughters class! If that doesn't happen then, call the school board and let them know that the principal has done nothing to stop this. NEXT STEP, LAWYER!!!
I'm with CGab on this.
I would call CPS to report the incidents, and park my fat butt in the principal's office to demand something be done immediately.
If your child is being repeatedly touched and hit in the genitals by another child, and that child is threatening her not to say anything about it, you need to intervene.
If the principal persists in minimizing an assault and sweeping it under the rug, you will need to go further up the ladder.
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Just venturing a guess - this didn't turn out to be one-sided like she initially believed.
In cases where you don't know the whole story and your child has only told you their incomplete side of it, it's a great thing to wait on calling the school board and the police.
Just venturing a guess - this didn't turn out to be one-sided like she initially believed.
In cases where you don't know the whole story and your child has only told you their incomplete side of it, it's a great thing to wait on calling the school board and the police.
Because how embarrassing.
IMHO.
Bad things do happen in schools (just like any place else), but in the schools I have taught and administered in, most panicky parents (not all) learn that the truth of incidents may not be good, but are not very often exactly like they believed.
Just venturing a guess - this didn't turn out to be one-sided like she initially believed.
In cases where you don't know the whole story and your child has only told you their incomplete side of it, it's a great thing to wait on calling the school board and the police.
Because how embarrassing.
IMHO.
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Originally Posted by phetaroi
Bad things do happen in schools (just like any place else), but in the schools I have taught and administered in, most panicky parents (not all) learn that the truth of incidents may not be good, but are not very often exactly like they believed.
I have seen it happen dozens of times where a child tells Mom & Dad that X happened, and completely blames another child, but it was really XYZ and they were a part of whatever happened. And, sometimes a child will tell a parent ABC happened and what really happened was DEF, something completely, completely different.
But, I do hope that the OP comes back to tell us what happened.
Just venturing a guess - this didn't turn out to be one-sided like she initially believed.
In cases where you don't know the whole story and your child has only told you their incomplete side of it, it's a great thing to wait on calling the school board and the police.
Because how embarrassing.
IMHO.
Except that, per the original post, the information that the child was hit in the genitalia came, not from the child, but via a call from the Principal.
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