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<blockquote data-quote="susiestar" data-source="post: 559568" data-attributes="member: 1233"><p>I am glad I am not the only one to see the absurdity of the school's position on bullying. Having thank you email asking for the report would (and has) generated the response that all he needs to do is ask the teacher for the form. Which sets the whole ridiculous cycle going around yet again.</p><p></p><p>We do have a group of parents calling for antibullying programs in ALL of our schools and the pressure is getting pretty intense, esp since the parents are using social media to do this. The school district is developing a MAJOR image problem for our schools. Our district has always had a VERY good image in our state, competing with some of the best schools in the 2 big cities. We have amazing funding due to long term financial planning watched over by a group of the professors at the local university (accounting, econ and finance profs are amazing for our district - we pay no more than $35 for school fees nad there are NO supply lists for any of our elem schools - NONE!) We often has as many or more National Merit scholars AND top athletes than any other school in our state. But the suicide at our jr high (thank you is in the middle school, not the jr high yet so he did not know the boy, thankfully.) has put a spotlight on our district and the problems. </p><p></p><p>I am hoping that soon the community pressure will result in some actual actions to prevent and stop bullying. Jess couldn't even attend middle school safely because she was having hands grabbing her private areas and even trying to get down her pants during class changes as the kids were all in the hallways. The school told us that she had to "learn to deal wtih it" because they could not supervise the hallways. Thank heavens the entire admin from that time was replaced 2 yrs ago because they had several rapes happen during school. Most of the community isn't even aware of this because it was hushed up a LOT. But I know poeple and got the info because they knew my daughter had been at risk when she was there. This is also the school that sent the fax to our neurologist saying the school knew they were not really a dr office but were a friend of mine sending a fax so my daughter could skip school. The neuro was FURIOUS and so were we.</p><p></p><p>At least some things have changed, which is a good thing. Now if we can just fix the bullying.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="susiestar, post: 559568, member: 1233"] I am glad I am not the only one to see the absurdity of the school's position on bullying. Having thank you email asking for the report would (and has) generated the response that all he needs to do is ask the teacher for the form. Which sets the whole ridiculous cycle going around yet again. We do have a group of parents calling for antibullying programs in ALL of our schools and the pressure is getting pretty intense, esp since the parents are using social media to do this. The school district is developing a MAJOR image problem for our schools. Our district has always had a VERY good image in our state, competing with some of the best schools in the 2 big cities. We have amazing funding due to long term financial planning watched over by a group of the professors at the local university (accounting, econ and finance profs are amazing for our district - we pay no more than $35 for school fees nad there are NO supply lists for any of our elem schools - NONE!) We often has as many or more National Merit scholars AND top athletes than any other school in our state. But the suicide at our jr high (thank you is in the middle school, not the jr high yet so he did not know the boy, thankfully.) has put a spotlight on our district and the problems. I am hoping that soon the community pressure will result in some actual actions to prevent and stop bullying. Jess couldn't even attend middle school safely because she was having hands grabbing her private areas and even trying to get down her pants during class changes as the kids were all in the hallways. The school told us that she had to "learn to deal wtih it" because they could not supervise the hallways. Thank heavens the entire admin from that time was replaced 2 yrs ago because they had several rapes happen during school. Most of the community isn't even aware of this because it was hushed up a LOT. But I know poeple and got the info because they knew my daughter had been at risk when she was there. This is also the school that sent the fax to our neurologist saying the school knew they were not really a dr office but were a friend of mine sending a fax so my daughter could skip school. The neuro was FURIOUS and so were we. At least some things have changed, which is a good thing. Now if we can just fix the bullying. [/QUOTE]
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