This year we’ve been extra cautious about attendance, only missing two days for the flu which was excused, and dental appointments. But yesterday I recieved a summons to court for attendence.
After getting to the bottom of things, apparently my kid stopped going to her last period class and instead was in another class as a teachers aid.
All along, absences were piling up from the other class, but nobody from the school informed me, even when they had the chance to when I would call attendance to report we were sick with flu or that I was picking up my kid for orthodontics and dental appointments.
This had been going on for 12 straight school days with nobody seemingly being concerned enough until it was time to turn it over to the law to so much as call me.
Now I’ve learned that it wasn’t my kid’s idea but a friend of hers to go work as a teachers aid in another class. This friend did not recieve any discipline because she was best friends with a girl who is one of the vice principal’s daughters.
I feel strongly that my daughter’s teacher purposefully allowed the build up of absences.
I also feel that the teacher who was using my daughter as a teacher’s aid also disregarded her responsibilty to at least know who her aids were, and if they were permitted to do this.
Also the assistant principle’s pulling of strings for the one girl to “get her off the hook” is inappropriate.
All in all, I’ve become leary of these people now. After my daughter faces the judge and recieves probation, it will only take one of these people to make one mark and we’ll be hauled back into court for the fine and other possible actions.
Should I call in the state board of education at this point?
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No, this is an administrative issue, call the ACLU as many rights have been violated under the law of equity.
1) The Teacher who used your daughter, to skip class, had to report your daughter as an assistant (helper/aide etc)
2) The friend can be called in to show the inappropriate action to one and not another, or favoritism was given to one and not the other, thus (Discrimination)
3) The school board should be made to show just cause, as to why your daughter, was not transferred from one teachers class, to the other teachers class. By not doing so, this violated school policy on accountability of all students at all times.
Where is the prejudice? Why do you think the teachers allowed this to happen? Do you think maybe your daughter told the teacher she had permission, when she in fact did not?
If you’re planning for your daughter to become a lawyer or a government beaurocrat, then it should be educational for her, and you should take this one “upstairs.” Lawyers, after all, are obligated to do what’s best for their clients (within the limits of the law), and that takes precedence over the truth or what’s right. For government beaurocrats, process is everything, and whether they actually get around to doing what they’re supposed to do is much less important.
But if her plans are in any other direction (such as being a real and responsible adult), then the bottom line is that she cut class to do something she preferred, instead; she got caught; and now she’ll be disciplined. All the rest is just noise, and not really pertinent. In fact, it can turn into a valuable lesson to her that life won’t be fair, and she can expect as an adult that others will get away with things she doesn’t.