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A New York teacher could be in hot water after sending a note home with her pre-kindergarten students saying some of them were showing up to school so dirty she didn't want to touch them. Parents say the handwritten note was sent home by a teacher at the Buffalo School District's BUILD Academy. The Nov. 14 letter says several of the 3- and 4-year-old children "also give off unpleasant smells."
A dirty kid is a sign of neglect (at least it's defined as such in the school law of most states) and any individual in a caregiving capacity is mandated by many state laws to report it to Child and Protective Services.
The teacher herself, if she did not make a CPS report, may be in legal jeopardy for trying to deal with the parent rather than file a report.
Since the schools have took on the responsibility of breakfast and lunch the parents will demand that school bathe their children. Give it a few years and some federal funded program will fix the problem
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She shouldn't be in trouble, those parents needed to hear that. At my last school, a middle school with a very high free/reduced lunch rate, we had shower facilities and the school social worker would have kids take showers there, give them clean clothes to wear that had been donated and wash their old dirty clothes. She would call the parents and let them know and explain that it could be a CPS complaint. I have real mixed feelings about it.
It would have been better if she had called the parents of the offending children only or sent a generic letter about the reasons to make sure your child was clean.
She shouldn't be in trouble, those parents needed to hear that. At my last school, a middle school with a very high free/reduced lunch rate, we had shower facilities and the school social worker would have kids take showers there, give them clean clothes to wear that had been donated and wash their old dirty clothes. She would call the parents and let them know and explain that it could be a CPS complaint. I have real mixed feelings about it.
It would have been better if she had called the parents of the offending children only or sent a generic letter about the reasons to make sure your child was clean.
She shouldn't be in trouble, those parents needed to hear that. At my last school, a middle school with a very high free/reduced lunch rate, we had shower facilities and the school social worker would have kids take showers there, give them clean clothes to wear that had been donated and wash their old dirty clothes. She would call the parents and let them know and explain that it could be a CPS complaint. I have real mixed feelings about it.
It would have been better if she had called the parents of the offending children only or sent a generic letter about the reasons to make sure your child was clean.
Agree that parents need to know and perhaps that phone call would have been better.
I feel sorry for any children whose parents' don't care ENOUGH to send them to school clean. Jesus. What is wrong with people?
I have seen those hoarder shows and I can see why some kids would be sent to school dirty.. those people who hoard are dirtier than an animal.
I know the hoarders have mental issues but I know the kids of hoarders can't get the proper care living in filth. The parents should be investigated to see why these children are not getting the proper care.
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Is there a chance the kids are getting dirty on the way to school ?
Any parent knows that a kid could get "dirty" on the way to school. But there is a huge difference between dirty and filthy to the point that you start smelling bad.
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