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Advice - should we call the cops and report an assault at school?
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<blockquote data-quote="seriously" data-source="post: 427764" data-attributes="member: 11920"><p>Stepto2 -</p><p></p><p>I feel like I am still processing this incident and have some breathing room since the other kid is on suspension and my son is OK. My son's IEP meeting is tomorrow and my agenda now includes a thorough discussion of this incident and a concrete safety plan for my son when the other kid comes back to school.</p><p></p><p>I feel puzzled about the apparent low key response from both the principal and the cops. I can understand the cops better I think. They see people who are killing other people with knives, guns, clubs, etc. To them this is a dust up between two teen roosters. That was certainly the attitude of the cop who took our report.</p><p></p><p>The principal keeps saying all the right things - that she takes it seriously, etc - but her actions that day don't seem to support her statements now. I have this impression that she thinks there's nothing she could have done to prevent it (she's right of course) and that there's only so much she can do to stop kids from playing dangerous games like this (also true) and that this comes across as a sort of apathy to me. She is so calm and I'm not that good at non-verbal social stuff myself so I'm not sure if I'm reading things wrong or not. She just never seemed shocked like I felt and really didn't seem to think it was wrong that she didn't call 911. </p><p></p><p>She did apologize for the Special Education teacher being an idiot (not her words of course). The Special Education teacher told her they had already called me when the principal got there. It didn't occur to the principal to get more specifics. She said she would speak to the teacher because she completely agreed that difficult child should not have been the one making the call.</p><p></p><p>Life is messy and this is pretty messy which is what is making me second guess my reactions. I will be interested to see how this plays out tomorrow in the IEP meeting.</p><p></p><p>Thanks again for everyone's input. I may take more action but I'm kind of waiting to see how things go tomorrow.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="seriously, post: 427764, member: 11920"] Stepto2 - I feel like I am still processing this incident and have some breathing room since the other kid is on suspension and my son is OK. My son's IEP meeting is tomorrow and my agenda now includes a thorough discussion of this incident and a concrete safety plan for my son when the other kid comes back to school. I feel puzzled about the apparent low key response from both the principal and the cops. I can understand the cops better I think. They see people who are killing other people with knives, guns, clubs, etc. To them this is a dust up between two teen roosters. That was certainly the attitude of the cop who took our report. The principal keeps saying all the right things - that she takes it seriously, etc - but her actions that day don't seem to support her statements now. I have this impression that she thinks there's nothing she could have done to prevent it (she's right of course) and that there's only so much she can do to stop kids from playing dangerous games like this (also true) and that this comes across as a sort of apathy to me. She is so calm and I'm not that good at non-verbal social stuff myself so I'm not sure if I'm reading things wrong or not. She just never seemed shocked like I felt and really didn't seem to think it was wrong that she didn't call 911. She did apologize for the Special Education teacher being an idiot (not her words of course). The Special Education teacher told her they had already called me when the principal got there. It didn't occur to the principal to get more specifics. She said she would speak to the teacher because she completely agreed that difficult child should not have been the one making the call. Life is messy and this is pretty messy which is what is making me second guess my reactions. I will be interested to see how this plays out tomorrow in the IEP meeting. Thanks again for everyone's input. I may take more action but I'm kind of waiting to see how things go tomorrow. [/QUOTE]
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