Need a good lawyer (New York, Albany: daycare, private schools, codes)
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He will finish out the year and then move to a different school in september. He was hoping to stay there until 8th grade, but now he is absolutely fine about leaving after 6th.
Thank you all for your responses. I appreciate and thought about every one of them before replying. I will keep you all updated on our saga and hope my son will be back in school on tuesday.
What are you going to do on Monday? Bring your son to school or keep him out?
By the time these letters even arrive, let alone are read and action taken, the suspension will be over.
Monday he will go to work with his dad. I am also in school and have a test on monday morning. When i am done, i intend to call the principal and have anotehr meeting with her along with my husband. At this stage also, my sister in law who is a forensic shrink and knows people in Rockville Centre will hopefully have made some calls.
I hope we can move on from this experience. As kids, we were never ever suspended from school so this is all new to us also. i thought a suspension was because one was violent to others or wrecked furniture etc. This was a complete accident on account of the schools negligence.
Monday he will go to work with his dad. I am also in school and have a test on monday morning. When i am done, i intend to call the principal and have anotehr meeting with her along with my husband. At this stage also, my sister in law who is a forensic shrink and knows people in Rockville Centre will hopefully have made some calls.
I hope we can move on from this experience. As kids, we were never ever suspended from school so this is all new to us also. i thought a suspension was because one was violent to others or wrecked furniture etc. This was a complete accident on account of the schools negligence.
Out of school suspension is the worst punishment available to schools short of expulsion. Your son certainly did not deserve that under these circumstances, especially since he is definitely not a known troublemaker for whom being caught up in an accident like this could even conceivably be considered "the last straw." The principal is way out of line and like I said probably one of those idiots who dresses up and plays office. Hopefully the people at higher levels will see the reality of this situation and rescind the punishment because it does not make sense at all.
Lets see : NY, Unions, Overtime pay, Emergency Call Pay = School waiting for school day to do work.
What are you talking about?
Are you saying if the students' classes are not in session on a weekday EVERYBODY who works at the school, including the maintenance workers, are off that day and the school is completely closed so that would entail expensive "overtime" pay to do any maintenance? I doubt it, at least not on Long Island, but thanks for playing.
PS: It's a parochial school, so there are no unions involved.
Monday he will go to work with his dad. I am also in school and have a test on monday morning. When i am done, i intend to call the principal and have anotehr meeting with her along with my husband. At this stage also, my sister in law who is a forensic shrink and knows people in Rockville Centre will hopefully have made some calls.
I hope we can move on from this experience. As kids, we were never ever suspended from school so this is all new to us also. i thought a suspension was because one was violent to others or wrecked furniture etc. This was a complete accident on account of the schools negligence.
Are you kidding me??? I would drive him to school Monday morning and walk him in as I have the Diocese office on my cell phone. Whatever else you do means SQUAT if you keep him out of school and let him serve the suspension. After the fact, they can give you all the fake apologies and excuses in the world and it will mean nothing. Meanwhile, your son got the screws and they're laughing all the way to the bank with your tuition check.
Your SIL doesn't have to and shouldn't be calling the Diocese. YOU should. You're the child's parent. Her calling and pulling strings is just as bad as the other parents of kids who weren't suspended for bad behavior.
Also, why are you waiting to the END of the school year to change schools???? I would pull him out NOW so that school (and the Diocese) doesn't get an extra penny out of you in tuition. You can put him in a non Diocese Parochial school. If you wait to the end of the year, I can almost guarantee you won't switch schools.
Have any of you read the Zero Tolerance Policy for your perspective schools?? If not, find it and read it. its a no excuse policy. Its a no gray area policy.
And if any of you were parochial/yeshiva students in the 60's/70's try to un-block some of the punishments we recieved from the schools and then from our parents.
Schools today are not day care centers but rather prisons in a way.
Teachers are not the Judge nor the Jury. Teachers are not Police officers. Teachers are room monitors.
As to being a teacher at one time, yes I was. I taught Mathematics to LD students at the HS level. I also taught remedial mathematics at a local college. I started multiple after school tutoring programs that were staffed by volunteer staff (my first one was doctors from a local suffolk university). I have numerous awards from Suffolk and NYS. I had numerous newspaper articles. If you know anything, then you know I had some of the most difficult students. I didnt leave the field due to the students. I left due to the Daycare mentality of the parents.
As to the Policy. It does not matter if I support it or not. I dont advocate for or against the Policy. It doesnt matter if I or my child has read the Policy, once I've signed on ther dotted line for my child to be in that school I've affirmed my child will follow all the rules and accept the ramifications if not. Its the Policy for that school/district/county/city/etc.
Its an entry into the real world. The law is the law. You have a choice to follow it or not. And if you get caught for not following it then.................................
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