Family Forum / Parenting / Single Parents / May 2006

 > On Wed, 10 May 2006 08:39:53 -0400, "Opal" <nobody@quickclic.net> the
 > following was posted in blue dry erase marker:
 >
 >>
 >>My daughter's principal just phoned me this morning.  He apparently
called
 >>right after school on Monday while I was still at work, and forgot to
call
 >>me last night.
 >>
 >>My daughter is 10 years old, and in grade 4.   There have been quite a
few
 >>"incidents" over the past year between her & another girl in her
class --
 >>verbal insults, slaps, kicks, etc. Mostly coming from this other girl
 >>towards my daughter.  I've advised her many times to just stay away from
 >>her, keep her distance, ignore her, etc.
 >>
 >>Well, apparently it escalated quite a bit on Monday right after school
 >>ended.  My daughter was quietly getting her stuff from her locker &
leaving
 >>school to come home when this other girl called her name.  She looked
over,
 >>and the kid said "ha ha, there are no teachers around", PULLED A KNIFE
at my
 >>daughter and said "you're gonna die soon!"
 >>
 >>Like, OMG!   This kid is 9 or 10 years old!!!!!   My daughter
immediately
 >>went to a teacher, and the result is the other kid has been suspended
from
 >>school for a minimum of 20 days, police were called, and she has to
undergo
 >>a psychiatric evaluation to "make sure she isn't a danger to herself or
 >>others", and possibly undergo treatment, which *may* keep her out of my
 >>daughter's school for upwards of a full year.
 >>
 >>When I relayed the part about the 20 day (or more) suspension to my
 >>daughter, she was like "YES! I don't have to be afraid at school any
more!"
 >>
 >>I'm just absolutely REELING from this.   These days, you expect stuff
like
 >>this to happen in highschool, NOT in junior grades!
 >>
 >>(Just needed to vent a bit)
 >>
 >>Kelly
 >
 > Middle school is where it starts, that's for sure.
 > The police know that this girl has threatened your child's life, right?
 > Does the hoodlum know where you live? Where your daughter plays? Her
 > route to and from school? Who is going to keep that girl off the school
 > bus?
 >
 > Suspension gives kids plenty of time to think of ways to torture other
 > students. It makes them angrier. What assurance do you have that your
 > daughter will be safe from retaliation by that girl's friends? Family?
 > How will you know when that girl is allowed back into the school? Will
 > they call you beforehand or that day?

 Pulling a weapon in a school around here would mean permanent expulsion.
20 days is not nearly enough.

 >
 > Time to make phone calls to everyone on your daughter's behalf. Police
 > too if necessary.