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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, what do you expect the school to do here? Sure, if part of Larla’s expulsion included her not being allowed to set foot on school grounds the school could talk to her parents about that, but that’s pretty much it. Anything Larla might do to your daughter outside of school has nothing to do with your daughter’s school anymore and they have no jurisdiction over it. Same goes if her mom were to file a lawsuit. Unfortunately I think you have to expect that part of the message you get back will probably be that your daughter should stay out of the situation, that if she encounters Larla at another event she should find a responsible adult and discreetly ask them to deal with it, and then not gossip about it further with other students because that can be interpreted as provoking/bullying.[/quote]

Wow. This really makes out the DD to be in the wrong and she was not. "Gossip further...?"  She wasn't gossiping with a student--she was scared and asking for help from an older student who was at the event in a kind of chaperone capacity. The idea that the DD could be seen as provoking or bullying is nuts.

OP is right to inform the principal. The principal does need to know that the expelled kid's parent walked up and spoke to a student the way she did. The parent was out of line and should never have brought the expelled student into the school. Even if the expulsion did not include "never set foot on school grounds" before (I suspect it did, as threats of death and rape were involved, PP). , the parent made the DD feel unsafe. This parent has another child at that school so is likely to be around school again; the principal should know that this parent may not control herself around students she thinks are talking about her child. Short version: Parent of expelled kid may tend to go mama bear so the school needs to watch out for her.

The kid was expelled for seriously awful and deeply troubling behavior. The parent probably is upset and worried and dealing with a lot. But she needs to exercise better judgement and OP is right to report the interaction so there is a record of it. [/quote]

OP here. Yes, DD sees the high school helper as a mentor and spoke to her because she was right there and DD thought she would know how to handle it. And from DD’s description the high school helper was the best choice to turn to for assistance in that moment as the teacher in charge was in another room and the other adults were parent volunteers she didn’t know. We have talked about how she might have handled it differentlly—and if she sees the expelled student at a future event she will avoid and contact me for pickup if she’s uncomfortable.

But I do feel I needed the administration to be aware for the reasons you described.[/quote]

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