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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I get it.  overall i'm fine with our Title I and enjoy doing the work, but DD witnessed a parent hitting her child inside the school and it triggered a lot of separation anxiety.  I tried to get the social worker to intervene but she said it wasn't at the actionable level beyond trying to talk with the parent.[/quote]

As traumatizing as that may be, your DD is probably going to witness such terrible things somewhere. My DS has not witnessed this at his school, but he has around town. Recently, he stopped and gaped at the scene and asked me what the little boy did. I think it's better to talk about these things with your children rather than shield them from it. [/quote]

NP - it's different for your DC to witness something "around town" than at the place he spends each day. School shouldn't be a scary place.[/quote]

Exactly.  It is a totally different thing to leave a child in a place[b] where adults hit kids and nobody does anything about it[/b].  DD had just turned 3 and it was really a lot for her to handle, especially in the first month of preschool.  So far it hasn't happened again.  But it really is different than just seeing it out in public.  She is still afraid of that parent when we see her.[/quote]

Look, I get it. We don't spank in my family. I think it's abusive. When DD has observed another parent punishing their child physically, I explain to her that that family uses spanking the same way that we use timeouts/loss of privileges/loss of toys/etc.

But you are talking about a parent striking their child, not a teacher striking a child, and the social worker is correct that if the action does not rise above the legally allowed discipline, there is nothing that CAN be done about it.

You need look no further than any of the many spanking threads on this forum to learn that this is not something that only poor families do.[/quote]

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