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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]But all of these things are issues for the parents of the kicker, not for you. It's really none of your business. If your child is getting repeatedly kicked, then you can ask the school what they are doing to keep your child safe, but how they are working with another child is not your business.

Exactly!  It's not your business what's going on with the other child.  You also shouldn't gossip with other parents about children that are not your own.

Ok, now I get it…  a lot of the posters here are parents of “kickers”, and they feel upset that another parent would know this. Don’t know what to say to this except, too bad – if my child tells me someone is kicking or hitting her, it is most certainly my responsibility to make sure this does not continue to happen, and to know that steps are being taken to thatend. As part of that, I will most definitely ask about what is being done, which includes asking what is being done to help the kicker.

If you don’t want others to know about your kid’s poor behavior and take the proper steps to ensure their own child’s safety, I suggest you take your child out of school and home school – that’s they only way you’ll be able to keep this kind of thing under wraps.

And, I don’t gossip with other parents; rather, I heard another parent mentioning a similar incident involving the same child to the principal as I was taking my child to class. When I was leaving, another parent had stopped to contribute their experience with, again, same child, and mentioned that she’d learned from the parents that they were seeking help for that child. [/quote]

This is your first child, isn't it?

We all pretty much know who does what in school to whom.  Kids talk (and so do parents).  You should certainly share your concerns about what is happening to your DD but it’s not your business what is being done to help the kicker.  You should know that something is being done but it’s absolutely not your concern what those actions are.  That other child and her parents deserve privacy.

You may not have been standing around gossiping, but you were definitely eavesdropping.  What else would you call listening – and retelling – a conversation two people were having that you weren’t involved in and that was none of your business.  
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Re: asking what is being done to help the kicker, my DD’s school has policies in place to deal with this kind of thing; the teachers and staff assured me that they were following policies, and informed me of the steps being taken to lessen chances of incidents like this, where one child shows a pattern of hurting other kids. I didn’t request nor expect any special knowledge about the kicker, just communicated that I expected some action would be taken.

In instances where a child doesn’t show a pattern, or the incident doesn’t warrant it, I’m not nearly as concerned; DD has been in school/daycare for 2.5 years, and 90% of the time I do trust the teachers and staff to do what needs to be done. Maybe it’s just me, but I do feel that kicking someone intentionally is outside the norm of behavior, even for little kids.

I don’t know if it can be called eavesdropping to overhear conversations being held in the hallways of the school or outside in the parking lot where anyone nearby can hear. If you can assume that DD is my first, I think I can assume that you must be one of those parents who always assume the worst about any parent who is not completely hands off but shows concern for their child and ensures that he/she has access to all available and appropriate resources, including those that protect them from mistreatment. 
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