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[quote=Anonymous]Turning to DCUM for a gut check.

I wrote to my middle schooler’s principal on Saturday night about a safety concern and haven’t received a response. Today was a holiday in our district, but I have always thought of administrators as “on call” on weekends to at least triage calls and emails. What type of response would you hope for/expect in this situation?

On Saturday evening my DD attended an event at her middle school and saw a girl, Larla, walking around who was expelled in September for sending texts to two students threatening to kill them.  She also threatened to have her boyfriend rape people. So DD was concerned to see Larla at the school event. DD started explaining her concern to a high school helper she was standing with (high schooler could tell my DD was upset but wasn’t familiar with Larla or her threats).

As DD and high schooler were talking, a woman DD didn’t know came up to them, very upset, with “I’d advise you not to talk about my daughter that way”, followed by something unintelligible, followed by talk of suing the girls. My DD walked away, shaken, cried a little bit in a side room, and when she came back out both Larla and her mother were gone. But she came home from the event petrified that she’ll be on Larla’s shit list and worried about the mother.

That night, I wrote an email to the principal in which I detailed what happened that evening, expressed my daughter’s fear, and asked for him to contact me as I hoped to speak by phone or in person about ensuring my DD felt safe at school.

(Incidentally, I did learn why Larla was at this event—Larla has a sibling at the middle school, who was attending the event, and Larla came in with the mother to pick up sibling. None of the students knew they were related until then.)

As of this evening I’ve received no acknowledgment of my email, and am both surprised and disappointed as I was hoping to at least send DD in tomorrow with some reassurance that Dr. Principal is aware and he and I will talk tomorrow. Today was a federal holiday and school was not in session—would you have expected a principal to address this issue when school was not in session?

My bias here is that I’m a teacher and I answer urgent parent emails on the weekend—and my principals (since about 2002 at least) have always read email on the weekend. But if I’m being unreasonable, DCUM, let me have it!
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