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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You know what I think? This child was probably threatening violence on a daily basis or acting out on such a regular basis that it became normal to the teachers and other school staff. That counselor and principal probably get a call about that student daily and probably just thought he was lying about it to scare people because that is what he does. That is why everyone somewhat underreacted, a threat or a violent encounter was probably just another routine day at school. [/quote]
I agree. BTDT[/quote]

Not to the four teachers/counselor who tried to get action.

I've not taught in years, but I can't imagine having to ask permission to check out whether or not a child has a gun.
Gee.  I had kids empty their pockets on more than one occasion.
The other kids would not have told the teacher had they not believed the kid.[/quote]

+1. Just shows the culture of the school.

A. My admin would never act like this - they are all very responsive and

B. I’d have refused to have the kid back without a proper aid.[/quote]
+1 Totally agree with you on all points in all my years as a special ed teacher and school psychologis, I have been in many schools-- preschool, elementary, middle, and high school. I have never encountered admin with the attitude of "Dr." Ebony Parker-- Incredibly unprofessional. That school lacked caring, professional administrators. Regardless of her actions that day, the child's placement and their allowing his drug using parents to be in that classtoom every day is incompetence on full display. [/quote]

If a teacher’s safety is in the hands of admin that can be a problem. Ebony Parker’s behavior was beyond incompetent, and apparently the principal was doing God knows what but avoided being charged because she literally did nothing that day to help or to hinder.

I’ve seen good principals/assistant principals at my kids’ schools over the years.  But the bad ones indeed have been very slow to lift a finger. My kid had their locker broken into twice in two weeks. The guidance counselor asked the assistant principal to put in a request to pull the video from the security camera near my kid’s locker and despite the guidance counselor and us parents reminding her weekly, the AP waited 6 weeks to make the request and then said “oops-video gets deleted from the cloud after 4 weeks.”  Some APs don’t do their jobs.[/quote]

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