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<blockquote data-quote="SRL" data-source="post: 78917" data-attributes="member: 701"><p>As a parent you need to be an advocate for your child. But I will caution before you jump to the worst conclusions that at times kids--and we see it all the time with our difficult children--can have very different perceptions of the same situation that an adult does. </p><p></p><p>Once when I was teaching high school two girls got in a physical scuffle in my classroom. They did split apart as a result of my verbal command but they continued to fling verbal assualts at each other and tensions were very high and I needed to seperate them. I instructed one of them to go down to the dean's office--it was the girl that was closest to the classroom door to go down. She picked up her stuff and headed out but then turned back around in the doorway and started yelling. By this time I *really* needed to get her out of there so I placed my hand on her shoulder in hopes I could gently guide her to turn around. In response she hauled off and gave me a good hard push...and then realizing what she had done she turned and left for the office. </p><p></p><p>However...the next day when I met with her mother and the principal it was mother threatening to bring in her lawyer to observe because 1) I had shoved her daughter and 2) I had demonstrated probable racist behavior since the girl I sent down to the office was black and the one I had remain in the classroom was white. First of all there's no way I would have shoved her daughter because she weighed a whole lot more than I did and I would have had to have been a whole lot more desperate to handle a student in that manner. And two, race had nothing to do with it. Only a fool of a teacher would direct the kid in the back of the room walk by the kid in the front of the room when they were in the midst of an altercation.</p><p></p><p>Exact same situation--very different perceptions of reality on my part and the part of the student.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SRL, post: 78917, member: 701"] As a parent you need to be an advocate for your child. But I will caution before you jump to the worst conclusions that at times kids--and we see it all the time with our difficult children--can have very different perceptions of the same situation that an adult does. Once when I was teaching high school two girls got in a physical scuffle in my classroom. They did split apart as a result of my verbal command but they continued to fling verbal assualts at each other and tensions were very high and I needed to seperate them. I instructed one of them to go down to the dean's office--it was the girl that was closest to the classroom door to go down. She picked up her stuff and headed out but then turned back around in the doorway and started yelling. By this time I *really* needed to get her out of there so I placed my hand on her shoulder in hopes I could gently guide her to turn around. In response she hauled off and gave me a good hard push...and then realizing what she had done she turned and left for the office. However...the next day when I met with her mother and the principal it was mother threatening to bring in her lawyer to observe because 1) I had shoved her daughter and 2) I had demonstrated probable racist behavior since the girl I sent down to the office was black and the one I had remain in the classroom was white. First of all there's no way I would have shoved her daughter because she weighed a whole lot more than I did and I would have had to have been a whole lot more desperate to handle a student in that manner. And two, race had nothing to do with it. Only a fool of a teacher would direct the kid in the back of the room walk by the kid in the front of the room when they were in the midst of an altercation. Exact same situation--very different perceptions of reality on my part and the part of the student. [/QUOTE]
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