Stokes sued for barring parent

[Anonymous]

https://www.washlaw.org/e-w-stokes-charter-school-wrongfully-bars-parent-from-kindergarten-graduation-elementary-school-for-five-years/

Apparently a Stokes staffer pushed a child and when the parent complained she was barred? Now I don't know *how* she complained but I could understand being pretty heated in this situation myself.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://www.washlaw.org/e-w-stokes-charter-school-wrongfully-bars-parent-from-kindergarten-graduation-elementary-school-for-five-years/

Apparently a Stokes staffer pushed a child and when the parent complained she was barred? Now I don't know *how* she complained but I could understand being pretty heated in this situation myself.

This lawsuit makes it sound as if Stokes is being run by abusive jailhouse wardens—not educators. If true, I wouldn’t send my dog to Stokes. This mother must not have any other school options.

[Anonymous]

Wow-- a five year ban seems awfully long.

[Anonymous]

I have never even heard of a barring notice. Reading it creeps me out.

She has serious counsel. The whole thing is shocking.

[Anonymous]

These are the issues that arise when you add campuses in depressed neighborhoods, you get opportunists trying to make a buck. This seems like a lot of crap to me. She should have pulled her kids out of the school immediately. I can only imagine how she acted to get banned from the school. It is not uncommon for Parents to be banned though. Stokes is a great school.

[Anonymous]

I have heard of barring but only for shorter periods of time, like a few months max. It can be used to deal with conflict among parents, custody orders, or assaulting a staff member.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:These are the issues that arise when you add campuses in depressed neighborhoods, you get opportunists trying to make a buck. This seems like a lot of crap to me. She should have pulled her kids out of the school immediately. I can only imagine how she acted to get banned from the school. It is not uncommon for Parents to be banned though. Stokes is a great school.

If someone treated my child like that I would have been incredibly angry, as any normal parents would. The only opportunists in this story are the people running this sham of a school.

[Anonymous]

In addition to the suit over the barring notice filed by th Washington Committee, AJE just filed a due process complaint. That suit contends that the school refused to comply with the parent’s legal request for an evaluation within the specified time frame.

Neither legal group is known for wasting time on BS cases.

[Anonymous]

According to the barring notice, she had "improper communications" with teachers and staff, disrupted classrooms, and committed "unauthorized removal" of school property. (That sounds a lot like a polite way to say "stealing" to me.) I can see why they'd want her barred for 5 years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In addition to the suit over the barring notice filed by th Washington Committee, AJE just filed a due process complaint. That suit contends that the school refused to comply with the parent’s legal request for an evaluation within the specified time frame.

Neither legal group is known for wasting time on BS cases.

Snort. OK.

[Anonymous]

It's possible that the mother reacted inappropriately AND that she was reacting to inappropriate conduct on Stokes' part.

A five-year bar does sound extreme. Not complying with IDEA is inexcusible, as is losing a 4-year-old for several hours in the building. And I'll be interested in what comes out regarding how Stokes allegedly pressured her to pull her kids. I think perhaps at least as often as difficult kids are counseled out, schools try to get difficult parents to enroll their children elsewhere, and that really sucks because school might be the best chance at consistency for a kid with an unstable family.

[Anonymous]

that video and the other allegations are not okay. No one here would be okay with those things happening to their kids

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:that video and the other allegations are not okay. No one here would be okay with those things happening to their kids

+100. I totally agree with this. But I assume many people here think she should be thankful to have Stokes in her low income neighborhood and move on! Good for her for being there for her kids. People on this board always complain about how parents of low family income are not involved but now they are complaining she is too involved. You can't have it both way! As a parent I can't imagine being barred for 5 years anywhere close to my kids school. This was really just a way to make her leave. Also we would have heard about this story in DCUM a while ago if this had been happening at Stokes West. Really sad all around.

[Anonymous]

Wow. I mean, how is a parent logistically going to be able to send their child to a school if they are barred? 5 years is a permanent ban. A few days cooling off period I could understand. This looks like a naked attempt to get rid of the family. And surprise surprise, Stokes has very few at-risk kids even at EE.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:These are the issues that arise when you add campuses in depressed neighborhoods, you get opportunists trying to make a buck. This seems like a lot of crap to me. She should have pulled her kids out of the school immediately. I can only imagine how she acted to get banned from the school. It is not uncommon for Parents to be banned though. Stokes is a great school.

If you follow the link OP posted you can read the whole complaint and they post a link to the video of the kindergartener getting pushed by a teacher. The girl went home saying a teacher pushed her. The principal and staff members denied it. They had a meeting and got security tapes to show the mother that he child wasn't pushed. Lo and behold when they saw the footage the girl was in fact pushed by the teacher.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?index=2&t=0s&list=UUnRZ5H4HyLZv6ISiRBoPk8Q&v=yfTSvcPCJTA

The mother seemed like an involved parent. Her 3 year old was screened by a speech team and found to be less than 50% intelligible. He was also having some behavior issues which could be due to his difficulty speaking. They also lost him in the building for hours and didn't notice that he had toileting accidents. She requested he be assessed for special ed and was banned from the school that day.