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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What do you expect, the school to impose some sort of restraining order? Clearly your daughter was gossiping about the girl, and got caught. The girl has already been expelled, and was there WITH HER MOTHER.  I think you need to calm down.  [/quote]

OP doesn't actually know the girl was expelled, she's guessing based on what she knows about policy. For all we know, there's an underlying mental health condition in play here, the parents had been pushing for a different placement for the child that could address her needs better but the school system resisted until the incidents OP mentioned. In that case, she likely wouldn't have been expelled and instead the school system would have expedited the transfer to avoid a lawsuit.

It would explain why Larla was there (no expulsion = not barred from school grounds), makes the other mom's response very understandable if she overheard a student spreading gossip about her struggling child, and would explain why the principal had to frame the response in terms of general security for everyone at pick-up rather than just saying the situation will be address -- the school may be concerned that this weekend's incident will give rise to a lawsuit by the girl's family against the school system and needs to comes up with a system that avoids interaction between Larla and the other students without being perceived as discriminating against Larla due disability.[/quote]

There's a lot of guessing here. A kid gets in crap at school and suddenly she has a mental health issue or disability.

OP's daughter was worried and spoke to someone she trusts.  She didn't go around gossiping. [/quote]

She spoke to a kid with zero authority to resolve the issue; if she thought that was the best solution to an unsafe situation, she’s not that bright. My kids knew when they were half her age that if there’s danger, you find an adult, not another kid.[/quote]

DP. 
How nasty you are to slam the DD as not bright. She found a teenager--not another child her own age. The teen was there as a helper. Of course she saw the teen as an older person who was nearest to her at that moment. Whether the teen had any authority to DO anything isn't relevant--what's relevant is that the DD was doing the best she knew IN THAT MOMENT when she, a child with no experience handling any situation remotely like this, was scared and worried and didn't know where to turn. The fact that some posters keep coming here to paint the DD as a mean gossip is just vicious and these posters seem to want to ignore how grave the expelled girl's threats were (rape and death threats, people). How can anyone want to defend the parent for threatening the DD with suing her? That parent should have known not to bring her expelled child into the school, period, and exercised horrible judgement in speaking to the OP's DD at all. If the parent was there to pick up her other kid, she should have picked up and left and not engaged. Going all mama bear on a kid just shows that her own child's lack of impulse control may be something she gets from mom.

So many posters who think their own kids would have done everything perfectly in such a situation. Bull.[/quote]

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