That's all my principal would let us have
Posted By: Misha on 2007-03-30
In Reply to: Keep your kids off the monkey bars - The Gingerbread Man
when I was a child. We begged for swings, but he said they were too dangerous. To show him dangerous, we would periodically fall from the moneybars and crack open our heads. :oD
But the real dangers are 4-wheelers and other motorized vehicles. Kids shouldn't be able to go that fast with so much power. It's asking for trouble, and I type reports on those injuries all the time. Parents were complaining to a doc about their son's crushed ankle. He told them they should be grateful - next accident he had would be fatal.
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It sounds to me like she needs to talk with the principal or school board.
The school CERTAINLY should have rules about this kind of thing. I don't remember my parents coming to school unless there was a problem. Other than that, unless the teacher requests help with a party or something special, the parents don't belong there and the school should step up for your daughter.
I remember all that, too. The parents rarely, if ever, questioned the teacher or the principal.
I wonder what the change is? Do we parents have egos because now most of us have as much education as teachers do? Are we unwilling to sit back and never question "authority figures"? Do we remember being wronged in our own childhoods, so we're quick to defend?
I try not to be a buttinsky at my kids' schools, but sometimes I just don't agree with how they're doing things there. One day, three bigger boys with bad home lives and a history of fighting jumped my son, who is the most peaceful kid you've ever met. Two of them held him down while the third one was on top of him punching and kicking him. My son had to bite the kids to get them off of him. He was cut, bruised, and had a bloody nose. Guess who got punished? My son did, for biting. I called the cops and intervened at the school because my son has my full permission to defend himself against bullies, especially on a 3-on-1 situation.
I also remember being punished for things at school when I did nothing wrong, then my parents punished me a second time because of what the teacher said. I got detention for sneezing in class once. One of my teachers publicly humiliated me and threatened to pull me out of all the advanced classes if I didn't publicly apologize to another teacher when I wasn't even the one who said whatever it was she was upset about. One of my male teachers actually picked up a student and slammed him into the chalkboard, ripping the kid's shirt off in the process. So yes, I'm going to stay on the schools and make sure my kids aren't hassled by any burnt out teachers who are just biding their time until retirement. My kids aren't angels, but they're not demon spawn either.
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