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Anonymous
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How would feel if the entire school staff including teachers took an hour off in the middle of the school day to have their holiday staff party WHILE the parents watched the children??? This is has happened twice at my school and I am not happy about.What are the legal ramifications of this practice??
What happened to having a staff party AFTER SCHOOL??? |
Anonymous
Call Michelle. |
Anonymous
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Incredible and illegal.
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Anonymous
| BFD. Have the teachers actually left the building? |
Anonymous
| One of the parents is a molester. Not for real, but get the point! |
Anonymous
The legal ramifications are that the principal and the staff are still responsible for the students - only now they're not directly supervising them. So if anyone gets hurt, it's still on their shoulders and heads could easily roll. Even if nothing happens, it nonetheless exhibits a profound absence of good judgement the likes of which should disqualify a principal from continuing in that position. Managing children is a responsibility not to be taken lightly. Call the Rhee. Guarantee you she will NOT let it happen a third time. |
Anonymous
| Why go to Rhee? I'd see if the parent community can't get the message to the principal that this has to stop. This is such a bad call, I could see Rhee firing the principal! |
Anonymous
| Twice? Sounds out of the ordinary at the least. What do the parents who were in charge think? Is it some kind of school tradition that hasn't been an issue before? Wouldn't make it legal, but this could be a good opportunity for parents to work together to help everyone feel safe in school. Try contacting Kaya Henderson. She's supposedly working on principal training. (Rhee will probably pass to her anyway.) |
Anonymous
| This has been a tradition at Eaton. |
Anonymous
| You know this is one thing that drove me nuts about public school. A number of teachers felt aggrieved and leaned on the parents for things that sometimes felt unreasonable. Yes I know teachers work hard, etc but there are limits. I helped organized a field trip and I kid you not the teachers treated me like a travel agent and then riding on the bus left the disciplining-crowd control to the parent chaperones. |
Anonymous
| Wow - my son's preschool does this every year for teach appreciation day. I think it is great - the teachers get out for a nice lunch, and the parents get to see what it is like to be in their shoes. |
Anonymous
| Wow, what's the big deal. The parents obviously did not mind, they volunteered to do this. Yikes! |