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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The exact same thing happened to my daughter at a Cap Hill School. The principal has an incentive to brush things under the rug, as they are judged on rubrics that include school environment and safety. This makes bad leaders deny, instead of reply. In our case, the classroom teacher was told that she was not allowed to speak to parents. The teacher ended up quitting. We had to sue DCPS to get our daughter transferred to another school. We ended up moving our daughter to Ludlow Taylor, which was just fine. Pull your kid now, before they develop a bad attitude about school in general. Go above the teacher's head. Tell your council member. You can sue in superior court if need be, it got us some satisfaction and did not cost much.[/quote]

Glad you got a good resolution.  You should know that teachers and principals can't talk to you about individual students because their privacy is protected under FERPA.  They CAN tell you about incidents involving your child.  They can also tell you more generally about supports in the classroom.  I can say, based on my experience of this (from the other side) that if the principal and teacher do not IMMEDIATELY put into place some evidence-based, supportive measures (which they ought to be able to tell you about, because they will involve full-classroom management, and not the individual student) then things are likely not going to change.  OTOH if a parent is not able to deal at all with a few conflicts along the way with other kids (especially in PK), then public school may not be the right choice.  [/quote]

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