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<blockquote data-quote="susiestar" data-source="post: 568303" data-attributes="member: 1233"><p>I was in sixth grade when a classmate, one that many of us didn't lke a lot because she was a tattletale, fell over one of the kneelers while helping tidy the church. She was told to go to class because it 'wasn't really hurt'. We could see that it was at an odd angle in the middle of her arm. We had a bake sale that morning, so most of us were out of money, but five of us pooled what we had and got enough to use the pay phone to call her mom at work. I made the call because the teacher let me go 'use the bathroom' because I almost never asked. Her mom ended up suing the school because there were loose bone chips and by the time they got to the ER her arm had broken through the skin (cut the skin from the inside out) and they had bone chips migrating and internal bleeding. We later learned that if we hadn't called, she could have had damage from either the internal bleeding or from the bone chips if they ended up in her heart or if they cut a blood vessel from the inside. Bone chips are often sharp, and there is a danger if they end up in a blood vessel as this girl's did.</p><p></p><p>If you choose not to get an atty, at least file formal complaints against the principal and nurse and teacher for their lack of action. This should have at least been a call to you. So often they don't bother iwth reports and just tell the kids they are being whiners or crybabies. No one EVER told me that twice about one of my kids. None of mine cry for effect, esp not Wiz. He had to be in very severe pain before anyone who didn't know him well could see it. So telling me he was a crybaby? Didn't fly. Jess broke off her front tooth hitting a concrete poll (that was 20 inches in the middle of a doorway and wasn't padded) and her teacher didn't want to elt her leave class to go call me or to see the secretary (we don't have nurses at most of the buildings but this secretary has some medication training and she raised 2 boys and a grandkid) but J just ran out of class. the secretary saw her after she threw up blood (cause it went down her throat) and called me. They were VERY angry with the teacher, as I was, because the bleeding alone should have been enough to have her leave class. This teacher truly disliked J simply because she is female and isn't creative in the way this teacher was, so ALL of J's work in this extended studies class was "wrong" even when it fit all of the requirements of the assignment. the teacher backed off a LOT after she realized that every kid in the class was willing to tell me ALL of the other nasty things she had done to Jess that year. I was shocked by it because this woman adored wiz. Turns out he is smart the way her sons were, and that is the ONLY smart she recognizes as 'real'. She wouldn't even take thank you into her class because he was my kid. She was reassigned because I found out and got 3 of his teachers from the past years to give me letters saying they recommended him and didn't know why he wasn't in the class. I went to the superintendent's secretary (the real power behind the school in many cases) and her grandson was in scout's with thank you and she was shocked that he wasn't in extended studies. So that complaint became a priority and this teacher with over 20 yrs seniority almost got fired. She now is at the alternative school where the kids run her ragged and make her miserable. cannot say I am sorry.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="susiestar, post: 568303, member: 1233"] I was in sixth grade when a classmate, one that many of us didn't lke a lot because she was a tattletale, fell over one of the kneelers while helping tidy the church. She was told to go to class because it 'wasn't really hurt'. We could see that it was at an odd angle in the middle of her arm. We had a bake sale that morning, so most of us were out of money, but five of us pooled what we had and got enough to use the pay phone to call her mom at work. I made the call because the teacher let me go 'use the bathroom' because I almost never asked. Her mom ended up suing the school because there were loose bone chips and by the time they got to the ER her arm had broken through the skin (cut the skin from the inside out) and they had bone chips migrating and internal bleeding. We later learned that if we hadn't called, she could have had damage from either the internal bleeding or from the bone chips if they ended up in her heart or if they cut a blood vessel from the inside. Bone chips are often sharp, and there is a danger if they end up in a blood vessel as this girl's did. If you choose not to get an atty, at least file formal complaints against the principal and nurse and teacher for their lack of action. This should have at least been a call to you. So often they don't bother iwth reports and just tell the kids they are being whiners or crybabies. No one EVER told me that twice about one of my kids. None of mine cry for effect, esp not Wiz. He had to be in very severe pain before anyone who didn't know him well could see it. So telling me he was a crybaby? Didn't fly. Jess broke off her front tooth hitting a concrete poll (that was 20 inches in the middle of a doorway and wasn't padded) and her teacher didn't want to elt her leave class to go call me or to see the secretary (we don't have nurses at most of the buildings but this secretary has some medication training and she raised 2 boys and a grandkid) but J just ran out of class. the secretary saw her after she threw up blood (cause it went down her throat) and called me. They were VERY angry with the teacher, as I was, because the bleeding alone should have been enough to have her leave class. This teacher truly disliked J simply because she is female and isn't creative in the way this teacher was, so ALL of J's work in this extended studies class was "wrong" even when it fit all of the requirements of the assignment. the teacher backed off a LOT after she realized that every kid in the class was willing to tell me ALL of the other nasty things she had done to Jess that year. I was shocked by it because this woman adored wiz. Turns out he is smart the way her sons were, and that is the ONLY smart she recognizes as 'real'. She wouldn't even take thank you into her class because he was my kid. She was reassigned because I found out and got 3 of his teachers from the past years to give me letters saying they recommended him and didn't know why he wasn't in the class. I went to the superintendent's secretary (the real power behind the school in many cases) and her grandson was in scout's with thank you and she was shocked that he wasn't in extended studies. So that complaint became a priority and this teacher with over 20 yrs seniority almost got fired. She now is at the alternative school where the kids run her ragged and make her miserable. cannot say I am sorry. [/QUOTE]
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