Bully problem resolved

[wade3504]

Yesterday my husband was contacted by many officials in the school system about what happened with our daughter. Tomorrow she will be starting at her new school. The principal of the previous school seems to be in some trouble for her lack of action and the boy, we are told, got the maximum punishment allowed by the school district.

Thank you all for the suggestions and contacting the school board I do believe got everything moving. That and I think News Channed 5 possibly contacted them. So our daughter will graduate with a 5th grade class like she wanted to and we no longer have to home school. She was very happy today. She told me that being able to go to the new school was awesomely awesome.

 

[SampleMM]

I am so happy for your family.............this is great news.

 

[anoki]

VERY glad to hear this!!! Sorry to hear all the problems...it really is sad to know this is happening with kids that age.....

But this is GREAT news!!!

~kathryn

 

[Miniv]

Very happy news!!!

 

[Watcheye]

:yeah

 

[leeapachemoon]

That is great new! What are your plans for middle school?

 

[txminipinto]

Wonderful!!

 

[NoddalottaFarm]

Good to hear everything has worked out. I want to commend you, as the parent, for taking this situation seriously, and not "shrugging it off". Its good to know there are still parents out there who truly listen to their child(ren), believe what they say and calm their fears. *YOU* are a great parent!!

 

[HGFarm]

That's great---- it is just too bad you had to go through such ridiculous steps to get anything done and too bad you have to move YOUR child because of someone else's lack of doing their job and enforcing the rules!

 

[Eohippus]

I've been reading and watching your posts. I'm so glad something finally got done and things are finally working out! You'll have to keep us updated on how your daughter does in her new school

I also wanted to say that I've learned a lot from your experience. I'm graduating in December with my degree in education and while I've always had the attitude of no tolerance for bullying your story has made it even stronger and really made me think of what I would do if I had been your daughters teacher. So I also just wanted to thank you for posting because its helped/inspired me to be better than that teacher and make sure I'm always doing more than just teaching and that I don't, for the principal/administrators sake, turn a blind eye towards something like that.

 

[wade3504]

Becca had her first day at her new school today and she hasn't stopped talking about it yet. She is soooo happpy and excited and I haven't seen her that way in awhile. She was excited this morning, then when we got there quite nervous of course. We are pretty sure that they were "warned" about us as they treated us like royalty. The principal of the school escorted our daughter and us to her classroom. We also met the assistant principal and the guidance counselor. The principal assured us over and over again without us even asking that she would be fine. The school is awesome. It is a green school-everything is recycled. Becca told us today that the teacher's desk is made of banana peels. The chairs are recycled plastic bottles. Her teacher is nice and she has made many friends already and even knows two of the kids in her class. They are doing a project tomorrow that she is really excited about and started one today with powerpoint. I am even madder at her previous school now though as that school is soooo much farther behind than this school is. Some of the workbooks that Becca has this school has completed. One book has 100 pages and they had done 10 of them. So she is way behind in science and social studies and about 5 lessons or more behind in math but she did her best today to catch on in math and I helped her this evening.

As far as middle school she is not stepping foot in the local middle school. We are not sure of what we are doing yet but that we are positive about and if the school she just left has a grade of "C" this year like last year we have the right to pull our son out and put him over at the school that our daughter is currently at if we are still here. We are most likely moving though. Anyway, I am glad this week is over as I am exhausted but really happy to see my daughter happy again.

 

[RockRiverTiff]

I've been following this too, and I am SO happy and relieved to hear that your daughter is in a better school now. I hope you will still continue to pursue your daughter's former school, because I worry they will think with your daughter gone the bullying problem is "out of sight out of mind." What your family went through was ridiculous, but kudos to you for being such a supermom!

 

[wade3504]

We are working with someone from the school board to help them be able to help schools, teachers, administrative staff, etc. deal with this better than they did. Becca has written in her own words what happened and how she felt when it was all happening and they want that and they want the names of any of the boys in that school who have scared her. We aren't dealing with the actual school right now but we are pretty sure that the principal is in some trouble.

There was another incident this past week here in the city where a 17 and 18 year old shoved an 11 year old who was riding his bike to school. They shoveed him right into traffic and he was hit by a car so they will be dealing with that as well, but that wasn't the schools involved here.

 

[~Dan]

That is great to hear!! I and I must commend you and say that you seem like a great parent (as well as your husband) for pursuing this and not letting it go as a "kid thing". I have been following the story and am glad to hear the problem was resolved.

Dan.