carole
05-05-2005, 08:37 PM
Two days ago my daughter had her meningicoccal vaccine done at the school, along with most of her class, (this is an intra-muscular shot) and is known to be quite painful afterwards, some smart A@s boy decided it would be fun to punch Melissa in the arm where she had the shot.(NB he did not have it done himself)
He was punished by the teacher with a red card, now these are also given for breaking any school rules, like running on the concrete when you are not supposed to, little issues like that, you get so many and end up with a detention or something along those lines, I also believe the teacher yelled at him( she is a real grumpy teacher, always yelling at the kids according to them).
Melissa came home from school not feeling well at all, and in pain, she did have a common reaction to the vaccine, but i was incensed this boy got off so lightly, so I rang the Assistant Principal, who was unavailable at the time and left a message telling him I believe he should have been sent to him to explain himself and get a good telling off and write a letter of apology to Melissa.
Well he rang me back next day, said he had done all I wanted and agreed with me, and said it was sinister of this boy.
I later heard from a school mate of Melissa's, as she was off school next day, that he spent the whole day at the Assistant principals office, and the teacher told the whole class if anyone did this again , even by accident, they would have their parents contacted and removed from the school for the whole day.
I was really pleased with the outcome, I don't complain often, but there was a principal involved here which mattered to me, he had no right to touch Melissa and inflict pain on her, and he needs to learn now to nip this type of behaviour in the bud.
I just wanted to tell you all, and to not be afraid to stand up for what you think is right, and to not be complacent, and stick with your principals whatever the situation.
I feel so much better knowing this will not be tolerated by the school, and that no-one else will have to put up with that type of nonsense or suffer the consquences, and also knowing that this lad had to suffer the conquences of his own actions, I think the punishment now fits the crime.
I also posted this after reading YELLOWLABLOVER'S post, about this awful boy threatening them at school. maybe if he had his behaviour problems dealt with early on, he may not have ended up so violent and out of control.
He was punished by the teacher with a red card, now these are also given for breaking any school rules, like running on the concrete when you are not supposed to, little issues like that, you get so many and end up with a detention or something along those lines, I also believe the teacher yelled at him( she is a real grumpy teacher, always yelling at the kids according to them).
Melissa came home from school not feeling well at all, and in pain, she did have a common reaction to the vaccine, but i was incensed this boy got off so lightly, so I rang the Assistant Principal, who was unavailable at the time and left a message telling him I believe he should have been sent to him to explain himself and get a good telling off and write a letter of apology to Melissa.
Well he rang me back next day, said he had done all I wanted and agreed with me, and said it was sinister of this boy.
I later heard from a school mate of Melissa's, as she was off school next day, that he spent the whole day at the Assistant principals office, and the teacher told the whole class if anyone did this again , even by accident, they would have their parents contacted and removed from the school for the whole day.
I was really pleased with the outcome, I don't complain often, but there was a principal involved here which mattered to me, he had no right to touch Melissa and inflict pain on her, and he needs to learn now to nip this type of behaviour in the bud.
I just wanted to tell you all, and to not be afraid to stand up for what you think is right, and to not be complacent, and stick with your principals whatever the situation.
I feel so much better knowing this will not be tolerated by the school, and that no-one else will have to put up with that type of nonsense or suffer the consquences, and also knowing that this lad had to suffer the conquences of his own actions, I think the punishment now fits the crime.
I also posted this after reading YELLOWLABLOVER'S post, about this awful boy threatening them at school. maybe if he had his behaviour problems dealt with early on, he may not have ended up so violent and out of control.