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[quote=Anonymous]I became friends with a neighborhood woman when we were both pregnant with our second kids (used to meet at park).
Our oldest was a little younger than her oldest and we took friend's suggestion on a preschool for our DC. Friend loved, loved, L-O-V-E-D this preschool and we liked it well enough (and its walking distance from both our homes), so we joined. I work, and she is sahm, so we usually saw each other at pick up and drop off times. As I went back to FT, I saw less and less of her, but she always kept me updated on school - raved about how nice the holiday party was, about how well the field trip was run, etc etc etc...

Fast forward one year and her child is injured at school and Friend blames the teacher, the school, the equipment. Friend actually goes a little nuts calling up families about lack of safety at school, tries to start a petition to have playground equipment removed, and tries to have the supervising teacher (an assistant) fired for neglect/lack of supervision. Friend goes on a legal rampage researching injuries at schools and who can be held responsible... I listened to the craziness for several weeks - she asked my legal advice, but I'm in a totally different legal field and don't know enough about schools/liability/etc. Finally, I go in and talk to Head of School, who explains the situation very clearly - Child climbed to top of structure, then on top of structure. Assistant got nervous, called out to another teacher to help her and got up on the equipment herself (b/c kid was refusing to get down), kid fell. Head tells me, point blank, that the mother has refused to come in to even hear the story from the assistant who saw it happen (Friend gives a very different story involving ALL the teachers going inside and leaving the kids alone outside) Long story short: the mom pulled the kid out of the school due to the "neglect." And she seems to think we should leave the school, too, because of the dangers of this school. On the day she pulled out, she informed me that the school had a long history of issues around neglect and accidental injuries and that i should look into it and that she hoped i would make the right decision. She no longer calls and for some reason, she always has to get right home when we randomly meet at the playground...

I am actually kind of annoyed by her - she's been so inflammatory and outrageous that i don't really want to be very close to her, but what's her deal? why would she think i should/would follow her and do whatever she does? why would she shun me at the playground b/c we made different decisions that she did?[/quote]

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