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[quote=Anonymous]So there are a lot of factors at play and I would be shocked if this family did not win their case. It sounds like all of this could have been prevented with properly trained teachers and a properly trained administrator.

Teaching degrees matter and I wonder if the teacher simply had a degree in her/his subject field and not a degree in teaching. You have to be proactive and think about whether an assignment is developmentally appropriate and appropriate for your class and give plenty of supports. It is basic common sense even that taking a photo of a bunch of children possibly smiling around a drawing of Hitler is a poor optics. The assignment was not as simple as chose an evil leader-Machiavelli is more complicated than that, but even if were or they interpreted it as chose someone purely evil-very poor optics and then you have to wonder why did other students decide Obama was pure evil?

If the school and administrator were well trained in addressing bullying this would have been handled well. You listen tot the parents and it doesn't even matter if you think they are lying or if there are 2 sides-monitor interactions and keep students apart and maintain open communication with the family.

Then you have an administrator who sounds like you does not have the proper education to be a principal. He allegedly runs the school more like an emperor and based on his credentials and how he handled this perhaps proverbially the emperor has not clothes.

They must have a Board of Directors to prevent this nonsense from escalating. I cannot imagine any parent investing close to 40,000 in this school now knowing how poorly grievances and bullying specifically is addressed and how disrespectful this man allegedly can be with parents. The house of cards is falling. A Board of Directors could help them restructure, but they don't have that.

I am not convinced they can provide a well-balanced and inclusive education for most gifted kids if everything reported on this thread is true any snob appeal they had is lost. [/quote]

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