Are principals required to respond to emails?

[Anonymous]

To all you angry people - I'm pretty sure the time at the bus stop is technically part of the school day for disciplinary purposes. Kids can report bullying behavior at the bus stop and the school is compelled to act.

I do agree that OP is bonkers though

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:To all you angry people - I'm pretty sure the time at the bus stop is technically part of the school day for disciplinary purposes. Kids can report bullying behavior at the bus stop and the school is compelled to act.

I do agree that OP is bonkers though

Well you're right about the OP but totally wrong about the other stuff. Not on School grounds or at a school organized event - still effectively under the "jurisdiction" of their parents, so no.

[Anonymous]

Is the school bus in front of your house? I had the same situation where school bus kids cursed, picked fruit off trees in my front yard and threw the fruit at each other and against a wall of my house , parents would being their dogs to the school bus and my dogs would bark until they left. I would find trash scattered around, etc. A kid liked to take a rock and scratch marks on a low fence he sat at.

After years of this I finally started calling and emailing the transportation department and complaining. I would attach pictures of trash or fruit splatters. All year I complained and then in spring I requested several times the bus stop be moved.

It finally was and it is so much better!

[Anonymous]

Similar thing happened to me. I live on a hill and the local high school's cross country and track teams are often here, doing sprints on the hill. They congregate in front of my house. Lots of noise, lots of swearing. I've ignored it, but one day I was leaving my house and and they were in front of my driveway completely ignoring the fact that I'd just driven down it and needed to get out. I rolled my window and asked for them to move and they didn't -- I assumed they couldn't hear me. Then I honked my horn. They moved but one yelled "F--- you, Karen!!!" as I drove off. I emailed their principal. No response.

[Anonymous]

If kids are behaving badly and they live in your neighborhood, why don't you go to their parents?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If kids are behaving badly and they live in your neighborhood, why don't you go to their parents?

PP from just above you. I would have zero idea who these kids parents are. Not a clue. I do know what school they go to, because they were in front of my house practicing with their cross country team.

[Anonymous]

Definitely take it to next door.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:To all you angry people - I'm pretty sure the time at the bus stop is technically part of the school day for disciplinary purposes. Kids can report bullying behavior at the bus stop and the school is compelled to act.

I do agree that OP is bonkers though

Well you're right about the OP but totally wrong about the other stuff. Not on School grounds or at a school organized event - still effectively under the "jurisdiction" of their parents, so no.

No, you’re totally wrong PP. The school has absolute authority to discipline behaviors at a bus stop. It’s part of the school day. Waiting to take the bus that will take you to school is a “school organized event.” If we go with your line of thinking, then your kid could get beat up everyday at the bus stop and the school wouldn’t be able to do anything because it wasn’t on school grounds.
Yeah, no.

[Anonymous]

You could go over the principal's head and email the superintendent of schools but if you do maybe have someone else proofread the email first to catch typos and errors.

Also, give them a good description of the perps, approximate age, size, hair color, skin color, gender, if you can't do that then it is pointless to report this. Also clearly identify the bus stop location.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You could go over the principal's head and email the superintendent of schools but if you do maybe have someone else proofread the email first to catch typos and errors.

Also, give them a good description of the perps, approximate age, size, hair color, skin color, gender, if you can't do that then it is pointless to report this. Also clearly identify the bus stop location.

Superintendent is not the way to go. If she even reads the email, she'll push it back down her admin layers back to the principal.

Unless it gets media attention, in which case, then she'll pay attention. But this isn't a serious enough offense to warrant media coverage.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Similar thing happened to me. I live on a hill and the local high school's cross country and track teams are often here, doing sprints on the hill. They congregate in front of my house. Lots of noise, lots of swearing. I've ignored it, but one day I was leaving my house and and they were in front of my driveway completely ignoring the fact that I'd just driven down it and needed to get out. I rolled my window and asked for them to move and they didn't -- I assumed they couldn't hear me. Then I honked my horn. They moved but one yelled "F--- you, Karen!!!" as I drove off. I emailed their principal. No response.

LOL

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:To all you angry people - I'm pretty sure the time at the bus stop is technically part of the school day for disciplinary purposes. Kids can report bullying behavior at the bus stop and the school is compelled to act.

I do agree that OP is bonkers though

Well you're right about the OP but totally wrong about the other stuff. Not on School grounds or at a school organized event - still effectively under the "jurisdiction" of their parents, so no.

No, you’re totally wrong PP. The school has absolute authority to discipline behaviors at a bus stop. It’s part of the school day. Waiting to take the bus that will take you to school is a “school organized event.” If we go with your line of thinking, then your kid could get beat up everyday at the bus stop and the school wouldn’t be able to do anything because it wasn’t on school grounds.
Yeah, no.

Hilarious. Show us the link from MCPS that proves this, or go back to your bottle.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Similar thing happened to me. I live on a hill and the local high school's cross country and track teams are often here, doing sprints on the hill. They congregate in front of my house. Lots of noise, lots of swearing. I've ignored it, but one day I was leaving my house and and they were in front of my driveway completely ignoring the fact that I'd just driven down it and needed to get out. I rolled my window and asked for them to move and they didn't -- I assumed they couldn't hear me. Then I honked my horn. They moved but one yelled "F--- you, Karen!!!" as I drove off. I emailed their principal. No response.

This is reasonable to email the principal about. He can forward the complaint to the xc coach

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP— good for you. Those kids should be reported and disciplined by the school. I would follow up with a phone call if the principal doesn’t respond to your email.

Yes, that’s right. Instead of OP actually engaging with her neighbors and building relationships with the families that live in her actual community, she should toss her indignation over to the school to deal with. Administrators are just sitting around with nothing to do and have endless hours to figure out which kids might have been at this particular bus stop and then extract some confession out of them.

You’re bonkers.

I disagree. She did the right thing. You are bonkers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Similar thing happened to me. I live on a hill and the local high school's cross country and track teams are often here, doing sprints on the hill. They congregate in front of my house. Lots of noise, lots of swearing. I've ignored it, but one day I was leaving my house and and they were in front of my driveway completely ignoring the fact that I'd just driven down it and needed to get out. I rolled my window and asked for them to move and they didn't -- I assumed they couldn't hear me. Then I honked my horn. They moved but one yelled "F--- you, Karen!!!" as I drove off. I emailed their principal. No response.

This is reasonable to email the principal about. He can forward the complaint to the xc coach

Don't do this. Just contact the coach directly and politely explain the problem. The coach is the one who will care and can instruct their athletes differently. The principal has an email inbox full of too much low level stuff - this won't get attention there.