Ticked at the school!
Ugh! Ok so yesterday SD 10 says her arm hurt and she shows me this HUGE rash on it. Looking closer I see bits and pieces of a temp tattoo and the rash is in the shape of the tattoo. No biggie right? I dress it and think nothing of it (add temp tattoos to the list of things she's allergic to never had a reaction to them before) well SD tells me she saw the school nurse about it. No phone call from the nurse no note NOTHING from the school. Not five minuets later I have social services knocking at my door because the nurse reported it as child abuse! The social worker looked at SDs arm and SHE even said that it was an allergic reaction to something. Well today I drop the SDs off at school and decided to ask them WHY no one bothered to call me about this HUGE rash on SD 10s arm. I said NOTHING about ss being at the house. The principal admitted it, THEN started back peddling saying that she "had absolutely NO knowledge of the rash" uh huh sure. Also asked why there is still a bullying problem. (SD 7 coming home with scratches and bruises that she didn't have in the AM torn clothes ect) again the principal denied there was a problem. *sigh* I am getting so fed up with this passive "we are HANDLING it" from the school.
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Why don't you report the
Why don't you report the bruising, scratches, bullying to social services as abuse happening at school?
That was pointed out
That was pointed out yesterday to SS when the woman was here. The social worker apologized for as she put it "wasting my time" and was SUPER nice about the whole thing. As for the school I'm just slaked that they play the "zero tollerance" policy yet won't do anything to prevent or stop problems. DH is NOT happy either about the whole thing and he would have gone with me this morning but he had jury duty.
I had this problem with my
I had this problem with my daughter's after-school care. I pick her up one day and she's holding her throat. I ask what's wrong and before BD8 can answer the lady in charge of the program tells her to stop making such a big deal about it. So me, thinking BD8 is being a drama queen (which she sometimes is), tell her to let go of her throat and get her coat. This is before the weekend. Get in the car headed home and BD8 informs me another kid punched her in the throat! And the lady in charge of the program knew that and did not tell me. Does something like that not rise to the level where you inform the parent? DH said he would talk to the lady Monday am but he forgot, and eventually it was let lie, but I'm still cranky about it. BD8 was not seriously injured, but still...
I agree, turn the school in for not taking adequate care of SS. Sounds like they are not taking the problem seriously.
I work at a Before and After
I work at a Before and After school program at an elementary school. We write up incident reports for ANYTHING that could potentially leave a scratch, rash, bruise, cut... ANYTHING. We also make sure parents of BOTH children know if there was any kind of forceful contact between children, whether one kid hit another, or they just collided. The school is pretty much the same way, even though due to funding the school nurse is also the secretary.
That being said, the school SD5 and SS7 are currently attending is in the same district. THEY SUCK!! SS7 is autistic, and it seems like the principle uses every possible excuse to send him home. Example: the day after Halloween the principle and the resource teacher wanted to send him home because "he wouldn't sit still in class or pay attention." I would like to know how many other kids in that school didn't want to sit and pay attention that day. The principle refuses to put effort into working with us on his autism, and treats him like she doesn't want him there. Sickening behavior from an educator, but there's not much we can to. We (me, DH, and BM) are talking about transferring him to one of the other schools in town. They're all within one square mile anyway.