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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To be clear, I think all children have the right to go to school and expect not to be hit.  I would hope that all schools are doing what they can to keep kids safe, and to deal with perpetrators appropriately.

I still don't think schools need to inform parents every time something happens.  Basically, I think that parents ought to let the school deal with it with the hitter and the hitter's parents/guardians.  The hittee is the victim, and should be cared for, but the parents don't NEED to be involved unless there was an injury or unless the school isn't dealing with

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Well you are correct that the child being physically assaulted is the victim here.  Fort his or her parents not to be informed that their child has been assaulted is in my view ridiculous.  The child who was hit clearly knows he was hit, and, if he were an adult and permitted to make his own choices as to how to respond and more mature enough to do so, he could take any number of steps.  The schools are simply relying on the fact that kids won't tell their parents that they have been assaulted in their classrooms.   This is not at all about student privacy.  If Jack hits Jane, Jane knows it.  Privacy blown right there.  Jane doesn't need to know why Jack hit her, any underlying private issues, or anything about his mental or medical state.  She does know, though, that her school was holy unable to protect her from violence.  Sometimes this violence is small, and sometimes big.  But don't let schools hide behind a shield of privacy in telling you you are not permitted to know of an act committed in public.   Imagine if this happened and an adult workplace.  If you were hit or taunted in front of your supervisors, who then turned around and said that, due to privacy concerns, they would be unable to prevent it from happening in the future.  You might not expect your company to tell you how they are addressing the problem, but to put a stamp of approval on it and the name of privacy for a child they cannot control, that's just bullshit. [/quote]

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