really pissed off at my daughters school..

[waggy]

Ok I didn't post what happened to my daughter yesterday because well kids get hurt and shit happens. But now that i got all the facts im rather pissed off.

My daughter is 7 and in the 2nd

grade. Yesterday at 9:30am (morning recess) she was playing tag and while running she got tangled up with another kid (my daughter is very tiny) and they fell. the other kid landed on her foot and she couldn't stand on and was crying. The recess person seen it and told ehr to go into class.

2 larger boys helped her to her class room. Where tricia told the teacher..who did nothing.

OK lunch time. 2 kids in her class help her to lunch. tricia refuse's to eat and was crying to herself. the lunch person came over and asked what was wrong...again this person did NOTHING.

About 2pm (final recess!) tricia was crying on the steps when the librarian asked what was wrong. She carried tricia to the office and got her a ice pack. we got a call 20 min latter (at 2:30 or so).

My wife rushed in to talk to her. Her foot was swollen and starting to bruise and she would cry if she had to put any weight on the foot.

My wife took her to her doctor who took x-rays and said yep its broke. It was easy to see. So they put a hard brace on and sent her home. she has to see another doctor in 2 weeks.

We went in to talk to the school. the Principal said he never knew about it. 2 of the teachers said they told him about it! He just said sorry and brushed us off.

Im rather pissed off. my daughter sat around the school with a broken foot and nobody did anything.


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[RyanPaulShaffer]

OT?

Twitter?

How is this Politics or News?

 

[waggy]

OT?

Twitter?

How is this Politics or News?

the news is waggy put this in the wrong place!

mods move thiiiiss!

 

[RyanPaulShaffer]

the news is waggy put this in the wrong place!

mods move thiiiiss!

LOL! Why yes, that is quite important news then.

 

[RoloMather]

Sue the school for negligence and damages. This is what you do in the USA.

 

[GoPackGo]

Not only sue the school but all teachers / admins involved.

 

[werepossum]

Does your school have a nurse? Many no longer have nurses. If so, she should have been taken immediately. If not, then after an hour or two you should have been called, as a simple bruise or strain ought to feel notably better after a couple hours.

 

[waggy]

Sue the school for negligence and damages. This is what you do in the USA.

there are no damages. she got the broken foot playing. shit happens.

Now the negligence pisses me off. this is not the first time they screwed up.

last year (maybe it was her in K) the school "lost" her. I put her on the bus and she went to school. me and my son went shopping. About 10:20 while shopping i get a call from my wife asking why i kept tricia home from school (school called at 9). my wife was working so she got the message late. i said i didn't she went to school.

Seems my wife got a call from teh school bitching my wife out for not saying she would be missing school that day!

ok so i freak out and leave a full cart of stuff and get out and head home (i live in the country. i was 20 min from home and 40 from the school).

my wife couldn't get a hold of anyone at the school until like 10:45 and the school goofed up and she was there.

why they didn't call us and say hey we goofed up sorry tricia is here don't worry or such really pissed me off.

 

[waggy]

Does your school have a nurse? Many no longer have nurses. If so, she should have been taken immediately. If not, then after an hour or two you should have been called, as a simple bruise or strain ought to feel notably better after a couple hours.

there is a school nurse that travels between 3-4 schools.

2 hours i would have understood. but from 9:30 to 2:30 is not acceptable.

 

[Jaskalas]

Are we shocked to witness the breakdown of modern society on the personal level? The 'it's not MY problem' crowd is quite large.

The act of assisting your daughter with her foot would require taking personal responsibility for something. You can appreciate, I hope, their hesitation to do that for the first time in their life. After all, someone else was not there to do it for them.

Consider yourself and your daughter fortunate then, that some rare jewels still exist among the lemmings. The librarian is once such jewel. Isn't it sad then, that the first person to exhibit responsibility is now a hero among plebs?

You live in Rome good sir, and when the Barbarians came knocking at the gate those with broken feet got left behind. Do you hear the knocking yet? Where there is smoke....

 

[werepossum]

there is a school nurse that travels between 3-4 schools.

2 hours i would have understood. but from 9:30 to 2:30 is not acceptable.

Agreed, a serious break could have serious consequences (such as nerve or arterial damage) that needs attention fairly quickly.

I think every school needs a registered nurse on duty; a nurse traveling between four schools is a nurse 75% likely to NOT be available when needed. Elementary schools are the worst, because people want their small children staying close to home and in small schools. Small schools are much more expensive to operate, which means things like school nurses get cut.

 

[StageLeft]

This is unacceptable.

I'm not saying sue them but I would demand a written apology and frankly if they don't give you one I'd consider seeing if you can get anybody in the news to at least make a story about it. If you spin it properly they may be interested, a kid with a broken foot should not be sent back to class for several hours because the faculty are too stupid. Perhaps you could report it to the school board or something, too, if the principal is going to be an ass about it.

Alternatively if you know the teachers who did this you could email them and the principal and let them know what happened and they will feel like total asses.

But, really, it sounds like if they did tell the principal he is the sole ass. So you could call him out on the email, copy the teachers who did help, and humiliate him in front of his employees.

Wow, I have lots of tricks, there are many ways to play it.

 

[Matthiasa]

Sue them or maybe report it to some local news place... I'm sure others that send there kids there would like to know of the schools negligence.

 

[mattpegher]

What is it with schools now a days, they are so arrogant, and never apologetic when they make a mistake. They think that all parents are incompetent with out any parental rights. They feel they are above reproach and answer to no one.

Waggy do you have any other children? It only gets worse in higher grades.

 

[JulesMaximus]

Man, I'd be fucking fuming too. I have a son who is in the second grade.

Sorry to hear about your daughter, she'll recover quickly though.

 

[WHAMPOM]

Are we shocked to witness the breakdown of modern society on the personal level? The 'it's not MY problem' crowd is quite large.

The act of assisting your daughter with her foot would require taking personal responsibility for something. You can appreciate, I hope, their hesitation to do that for the first time in their life. After all, someone else was not there to do it for them.

Consider yourself and your daughter fortunate then, that some rare jewels still exist among the lemmings. The librarian is once such jewel. Isn't it sad then, that the first person to exhibit responsibility is now a hero among plebs?

You live in Rome good sir, and when the Barbarians came knocking at the gate those with broken feet got left behind. Do you hear the knocking yet? Where there is smoke....

....Jaskalas plays his violin as a harp was played in Rome?

 

[Linflas]

You definitely have every right to be mad. The kid should have been sent to see the school nurse immediately after she told them she was in pain. Even if the nurse isn't there someone in the admin office should have dealt with it and either contacted one of the parents or followed whatever the schools standard escalation procedures are for a student injury.

 

[SpatiallyAware]

If it were me I'd send a paper-style letter (not email) and copy someone from your county on it (make it clear at the top of the letter it's going to multiple people)

I would explain what happened, and that you hope to not hear of anything like this again. If it DID happen again to another kid and you helped with the lawsuit they'd pretty much auto-lose. I would try to find a nice way to explain all of that.

 

[waggy]

You definitely have every right to be mad. The kid should have been sent to see the school nurse immediately after she told them she was in pain. Even if the nurse isn't there someone in the admin office should have dealt with it and either contacted one of the parents or followed whatever the schools standard escalation procedures are for a student injury.

exaclty.

i am ticked off taht procedure was not followed and why not. I'm not pissed she has a broken foot. Shit happens when you playing hard.

the fact she sat around from 9:30 till 2:30 is what pisses me off.

 

[Alienwho]

It comes as no shock to me that some of the dumbest people around teach elementary school. I should know, my in-laws are full of elementary school teachers. The reason why no teacher took care of the incident was because they didn't have a union rep around to tell them what to do or believe.

You can go ahead and throw this back into P&N now.

 

[OutHouse]

sorry to hear about this. we have been having issues with my sons elementary school as well. its become bad enough where my wife and I have seriously considered moving him to another school after this school year.

 

[geno]

waggy, I don't know how you plan / want to handle this, but if you made a stink about it, I'd say you'd be well within your rights to. That is beyond ridiculous and concerning. If they can ignore something so obvious then what else is the faculty letting slide?

 

[rudder]

there is a school nurse that travels between 3-4 schools.

2 hours i would have understood. but from 9:30 to 2:30 is not acceptable.

The teacher was clearly negligent. Even if there was no nurse, your daughter should have been taken to the office. You have a good attitude about the whole regarding that it was play that got her hurt. But I would raise cain with the school administrators at the district level.

Sounds like a very incompetent principal running that place.

 

[blackdogdeek]

i find it incredible that no one did anything about a girl who had to literally be carried around. i am quite certain your daughter's elementary school sucks. can you send her somewhere else? i would be looking for a different school and looking for a way to make the incident as public as possible.

that is completely unacceptable.

 

[Fern]

Inexcusable and shocking.

I have a kid in school, when he gets a minor injury or says he doesn't feel well the school calls us immediately.

The school Superintendant should be made aware of this (go right over the priciple's head). The School Board should be made aware of this. And I think you should consider contacting the local newspaper.

Seems to me they definately need a review of their school policy. And if they already have a good policy in place somebody needs to be disciplined for not adhereing to it.

If it was me and I was disatisfied with the Superintendant's response etc, I'd get a lawyer on their backs.

If nothing else your efforts may prevent this from happening to someone else's child, and that's no small accomplishment.

Fern