Sound very similar to what my mom went through when she was teaching in Fredericksburg. A student accused my mom of grabbing him and hitting him (neither of which she did) and then telling him to go sit in the corner. There was a big mess at the school - of course the parent believed her son, and my mom went through alot. Its a small town so its kind of hard to keep those things under wraps. Sorry to hear that but tell your girl to stand strong!
Last year, my wife worked at a middle school in an upscale neighborhood in a North Dallas suburb. There was an incident where a handful of girls were caught using inhalants (I'm not a teacher, so I can spell things incorrectly) in the bathroom. They were immediately suspended per the "zero tolerance" policy but were reinstated almost as quickly when the parents called in the lawyers. It surprised me that the parents would call in the lawyers. When I was growing up, even though my parents were anything but strict, they expected me to follow the rules and supported the teachers and administration when I got in trouble (which was never drug-related, and I didn't get in trouble at school very often). It was doubly surprising to see how quickly the district backed down and let these kids back in with essentially no punishment. One of my wife's friends has a special needs kid who was physically and mentally abused by members of the staff at his elementary school (I don't remember if it was the teacher or aides or what, but someone in the classroom) in a different North Texas school district. There was tons of documentation and witnesses, but the district's lawyers were pitbulls about it. Never giving an inch. Even going so far as to admit the kid was abused but because of his relatively low brain function, he didn't really know he was being abused so it was okay. The district eventually settled, but it took a couple of years (and then to add insult to the whole process, the mother, who was an employee of the district, was fired from her job. The people who abused the child were not removed from the district or the classroom). There's enough entitlement to go around. I don't know if, overall, parents are generally better or worse depending on socio-economic status. Seems to me, judging from my wife's, admitedly limited, two years of teaching - one at an affluent school, one at a lower-income suburban school - that there are some dedicated parents, several that are probably okay but that don't have a lot of contact with the teachers, and at least one who is completely disinterested and uninvolved, sometimes to the point of neglect. I hope all works out for your g/f, macalu.
yea, she wants to move up in the Education field but now she just feels this will negate all the good she's done. Instead of a great teacher, she feels everyone outside of the school will just see her as the "racist" teacher.
LOL... nyeh-heh... you said "wee wee" !! There's my contribution to keeping it out of the D&D, macalu...
i just remembered i never posted an update on this. Well, "charges" were dropped and she made teacher of the year in February. now she has a new problem...a bunch of jealous (and not in a good way) teachers.
Make sure to send the parent one of these... Congrats on the system not beating your g/f!!! Some lawsuits are an absolute joke!
You know when I first saw the heading of this thread I thought it meant your girlfriend was your teacher and this was going to be another one of those teacher / student threads.
AHAHAHAHA oh and congrats. that little kid needs to be slapped for engaging in gang violence and the parent needs to be double slapped for letting it happen and then trying to defend him. and then of course they can both wear 'I GOT PWND' shirts for a week.
Excellent news. One for the good guys. My girlfriend has been a teacher for 10 years and has had this kind of thing happen to her more than once. Not with a law suit, but she has been threatened with one several times for dumb reasons like this. Bottom line. Parents don't want to take responsibility for their own kids.