Re: Off topic -- To Lolita

[Guest guest]

I am an attorney, currently practicing in disability and education law

but formerly criminal defense, and I see so many rights violations in

your message here that I don't even know where to begin. I will

include a FEW observations here tho, in case you want to pass them on.

You can send me an email if you want.

> My eldest daughter, who works in the public school system here, just

called

> me, upset. There is a new second grade student who came to the

school with

> the warning that she might refuse to come in from recess. Well, she

did

> refuse, so the principal and several teacher went out, chased her

down and

> drug her into the school and suspended her for a week.

A SECOND GRADE student [so about age 7] refusing to come in from

recess requires several teachers/principal to chase her and results in

suspension? It is the ADULTS at this school who require a behavior

plan, not this child.

>

> Today my daughter heard blood curdling screams from the bathroom.

I have been severely mistreated and set on fire in a school bathroom

by my " peers " , and I was older than second grade both times. You bet

I would be screaming if several adults were confining me in there,

especially for such a minor infraction as failing to return from

recess.

She runs

> to find out what's going on and finds the principal and several

adults in

> there, so leaves. The screaming continues and then the police appear

and

> this girl is handcuffed and taken away!

This is child abuse for a child in second grade, among other crimes.

It seems she had gone to the

> library with the class, but wasn't ready to check out when their

time was

> up.

She needs a 5-minute warning, sounds like AS to me, or a few other

possibilities.

A student teacher told her she couldn't get her book since her

time was

> up. She started throwing a fit saying that if they'd just let her

have her

> book, she'd be good, so four adults shoved this girl into the

bathroom

> where they tried to control her.

This child's parents can sue the pants off the school district and the

police department, and be set for life. At least get an appropriate

behavior plan for the child, at least it would protect the child from

the obvious behavior issues of the adults. A behavior plan would have

to be followed, and I am sure it would not include the adult behavior

and response that you listed here.

According to the librarian and my

aunt

> (who works there and was present when this happened) she wasn't

being

> physical or threatening, just refusing to leave the library till she

got

> her book. She was taken to juvenile detention.

Okay so the mother had to retrieve her daughter from juvie. I would

advise your daughter to give this mother the advice that she file a

complaint with your local District Attorney's office about this entire

incident, and any other incident regarding this child. The other kids

at this school would benefit also.

Another reason I homeschool.

Dana