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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I didn't realize the job description for "safety patrol" includes monitoring the editorial content of conversations of younger students for political correctness.  Sign me up!

I'd like to take this seriously, but OP has layered on so much BS and made so many assumptions that it makes that all but impossible.  But I'll reconsider when OP reports back that her kid has also laid down the law for the GenEd boys who make fun of the athletic skills of AAP kids on the bus, on the playground, and in the classroom.[/quote]

OP here.  The job description for patrols includes stepping in when students are being bullied.  In my son's view, and mine, the one girl was being bullied by the other two.  Imagine being told you're not "smart enough" to be in a certain class.  I'm proud of him for intervening and telling them to cut it out.  And of course he would step in (and has) if he saw bullying going on in [b]any [/b]form, including non-athletic kids being bullied by the jocks.  Wondering why you assume it would be the AAP kids who aren't athletic though.  AAP includes so many children these days that it's hard to believe that old cliche about them not having athletic skills.  In most ways, these kids are really no different from those in Gen Ed (which is kind of the point of this whole topic).  He's had to speak up for several kids on the bus due to various types of similar behavior.  This particular instance, however, was about two AAP girls trying to make another girl feel bad about not being in AAP.  And if you and PP don't view that as bullying, then so be it.  [/quote]

It doesn't sound like bullying to me, and if my girls had been berated by a much older boy on a bus I might complain to the school to make sure it doesn't happen again.  Your kid should check cross walks, not decide what people say about test results.  [/quote]

Are you really criticizing a kid who had the guts to speak up for another child being teased? The OP's son did exactly what I hope my child would do. Schools would be a better place if everyone stood up against mean kids. (regardless of safety patrol status).

Tell your girls to be nice, and it won't be an issue.[/quote]

I'm basically just refusing to take OP's scenario at face value because she's layered it with so many assumptions and judgments as to what supposedly took place.  And, even if one accepted it as wriiten, the mean AAP girls didn't call the GenEd girl stupid, hit her, or yell at her.  They just said she wasn't smart enough to be in an AAP class, which is more or less what FCPS determined without using the word "smart."

[b]So, hypothetically, yeah, if an older, larger boy tells my younger girl that this is "bullying" and she has to stop it, we might end up in the principal's office hashing it out.[/b]  If he kindly suggests "hey, c'mon, be nice to each other," no worries.[/quote]

Let's follow up on this hypothetical.  Older boy - patrol on bus who is doing his job - witnesses two girls, one of them your daughter, telling another girl she's not smart enough to be in AAP.  He tells girls to cut it out, that they are being hurtful and rude.  Your daughter runs home to tell you what happened.  You decide to "hash it out" in principal's office.
Principal:  "So, girls, tell me what is was you said that got you in trouble."
Larla:  "Well, all we did was tell Darla that she wasn't smart enough to be in AAP, like we are."
Principal:  "You mean you were bullying her?"
Larla:  "Well..."
Principal to Patrol: "Thank you for doing you job, ending this situation, and reporting it to us.  We take bullying, in all its forms, very seriously here at school.  Girls, what you said was unacceptable and you will have to apologize to Darla.  Don't ever talk to someone like that again."
Larla:  "But I was just repeating what my Mom and Dad tell me all the time!"[/quote]

Of course, it's all hypothetical here, isn't it.

Principal:  So, girls, tell me why you're so upset.
Larla:  Darla and I were talking to Barla, and Biff told us to shut up and stop bullying her.
Principal:  So what were you talking about with Barla?
Larla:  Barla kept interrupting our conversation and telling us that her class was no different than ours, and that she's just as smart as we are.  We told her that only the smarter kids with better test scores got into our class.  That's what the teachers told us last year, so why did Biff get so mad?  I'm scared to get on the bus with him again.  He's really big and his voice is even starting to change!
Darla:  I'm scared, too.  He weighs three times as much as we do!  Combined!      
Principal:  Girls, try to be sensitive to Barla's feelings.  All students at this school work hard and should respect each other.  But we'll talk to Biff and ask him to apologize for scaring you.  Sometimes patrols overstep their responsibilities. [/quote]

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