Reply to So my daughter was suspended for surfing skin care websites at school

Forum Index » Kids With Special Needs and Disabilities

Reply to "So my daughter was suspended for surfing skin care websites at school"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Tomorrow (10/21) is the deadline to contest. I wrote an email explaining the facts, but my DD doesn't want me to contest it. She says it will anger the school counselor, and I think she's right. We had a meeting and the counselor was very defensive and said school computers couldn't be used for these purposes, etc. 
Things had been going well, and now this. I'm really disappointed in the school's policy. My DD likes to cook--if she'd been looking at kitchen equipment, knives could have come up. I hate these zero tolerance policies. They are too narrow-minded. The school is SMALL--everyone knows DD and knows she is not violent, but they all defer to this trigger-happy counselor. [/quote]

22:44 here.  I would discuss with your DD, tomorrow morning and ongoing after that, the importance of being aware of what is appropriate in certain situations and what isn't.  Surfing the web after completing work is acceptable but she should be careful about what she is looking at, whether on a school/work computer or on her phone.  This is an important life lesson.  And also discuss with your DD that because she has learned from this, contesting the suspension is the right thing to do (fwiw, being unwilling to contest the suspension only because the counselor will be mad is not a mature, rational decision).  Include this in the email to the counselor, explaining that your DD has really learned from this mistake, has realized what she did was wrong and why, and will not repeat it.  [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics