Posted on 08/31/2014 6:27:15 PM PDT by Morgana
CALLAHAN, Fla. — A Florida mom is fuming after her 4-year-old son was kicked out of preschool because of something she posted to her own Facebook page.
Ashley Habat doesn’t think her 4-year-old son should be punished for what she wrote.
Habat said her son, Will, was late for school on picture day at his private Christian preschool.
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Habat sounds like an Arab last name. I wonder if she is married to a Muzzie.
I hate stoopit people who act retar-et.
You tagged the skrewel in your post specifically so you could get satisfaction of “sticking It” to anyone who read it.
I wouldn’t her a thing.
She has a habat of shooting her mouth off very publicly and then pretending “who me? Why, I didn’t know!”
Too bad, so sad, buh-bye...
Parents need to start realizing that their kids suffer if they make the wrong choices in life.
Why is that? Can you show me one other business that should have to continue to deal with a customer who publicly smears them on social media, lest they suffer the opprobrium of being "a-holes" in the eyes of people like yourself?
And there may be some question as to whether they can take payment for service then deny service, although I assume that sort of thing is covered in the small print someplace.
Prorate and refund her money. Problem solved. Let her go find some other school to be an idiot about.
Prorate and refund her money. No more issue after that.
Well true. There is always the fact that in today's world, someone like this woman can be a completely, utterly, vapid blithering moron and still get their facetime on TV so they can sympathy from other completely, utterly, vapid blithering morons.
My money is on the pre-school developing some new ways of handling irate parents.
Perhaps pre-screening the parents' social media accounts to see if they have a history of being retards might be in order.
What reason is there to think the school wasn't providing a high quality service? All we know is that she missed the week's notice to have her kid ready for picture day, and got her kid to school late on said picture day. It sounds like she doesn't pay attention, doesn't take responsibility for herself as a parent, and then wants to get mad and blame someone else when she faces the consequences for her poor decision making.
The idiot sounds like a perfect Obama voter.
Parents, you are the primary educators of your children. Responsibility for their education rests squarely on your shoulders.
The school did right to expel the child, as the relationship between the mother and the school was not a right relationship, and thus, it was inappropriate for the child to stay in the school. It wasn’t mean, or petty. It was an honest action. One that demonstrates the good faith of the school.
When you choose not to homeschool your children, and to send them to a traditional school, you are engaging that school to be your partner in the education and formation of your children. If the school takes their mission seriously - to be the primary resource of the parents in educating the parents’ children, then there are certain conditions that must be met, a certain relationship that must come into existence between the school and the parents.
The first necessary ingredient in the relationship must be trust, and that trust must go in both directions. The parents must have some basic trust in the school that the school will do its best to educate and form the child properly. And the school must trust the parents that they will work cooperatively with the school, will abide by the policies of the school, will be in broad, general agreement with the philosophy of the school as the primary resource of the parents in educating and forming the parents’ child[ren].
This doesn’t mean that there are never differences of opinion between the school and the parents, or that those differences may be, from time to time, sharp, or that the either school or parents are immune to criticism.
It DOES mean that differences are addressed directly and confidentially.
If, as parents, you find yourselves incapable of directly and confidentially addressing problems, it’s time to do something different.
From the school’s perspective, they can’t really succeed with your kid if the relationship is adversarial and openly hostile. Maintaining their own integrity as an institution required them to invite the family not to return with their child.
Did I not say they are entitled to part ways? From the sounds of it the school messed up and then tossed this customer out over a pretty minor "smear." Can they? Yes. Should they? Thats down to opinion, and tempered by my own dealings with schools both private and public, I generally find that school-people are usually both ignorant AND A-holes, which inclines me to say that the school is overreacting.
Which is why, in the event of me spawning children, they're being homeschooled.
“as the relationship between the mother and the school was not a right relationship,”
I will buy that. I still say the school was petty though, because the mother paid a lot of money for the child to be there. When one pays a lot one expects more. The mom should have chosen a school, how do I say it? One that she connected with. She did not connect with this school.
At the very least she deserves a refund.
” I generally find that school-people are usually both ignorant AND A-holes, which inclines me to say that the school is overreacting. “
You are not kidding!
Yes, she should get a refund. As a matter of fact that might be the better way to tell her to get out. “Here is your money back since you were not satisfied with the service”
You know Gerry a 4 year old should be at home with his mommy anyway.
I agree
My understanding is that she paid tuition on a monthly basis. Thus, her economic loss was extremely limited, and not inappropriate.
Keep in mind that schools must plan ahead, and must incur costs based on expected enrollment. Not every cost a school incurs to teach a student instantly goes up or down with a change in the enrollment numbers. If a school plans to admit 20 students to a given class, and hires a teacher accordingly, the school cannot reduce the faculty by one, or reduce the pay of the affected teacher, even though the school suffers a 5% loss of income if the student leaves and no longer pays tuition. At many private schools, the loss of tuition may be for a quarter, or even a semester, or in some circumstances, even for the full year.
By taking this woman's child, the school took on certain costs associated with enrolling the child, not all of which will fall now that the child no longer attends, and the school may have denied admission to another student in order to accept this child. There is economic loss on both sides of the equation.
sitetest
And they are entitled to decide children of drama queen attention whores are not welcome.
This is what private means.
I think I’ll trust the school’s opinion of how to conduct their business over yours. Thanks all the same.
Defending either the mom or the pre-school is a dicey proposition.
You must have some info that I haven’t seen to insinuate that
the mom is the moron, here. Maybe she is but is it also possible
that the pre-school is “the only game in town” and the proprietors
have become a little unresponsive and arrogant? I don’t know
one way or the other but you seem to know enough to put mom
in the ding-bat box. Just maybe it is both sides. If I were running
the pre-school I would arrange a face-to-face with mom and work
things out. When all things were said and done I would point to
the fact that mom continued to leave her kid in my school even
though she complained. Instead, they chose the hard-nosed
road. Although they have had good reasons to do what they did
they may pay a price with potential customers.
The funny thing is that in my own life I completely identify with
the pre-school. I work for a private residential Tx facility for
Severely Emotionally Disturbed teen boys. Many of our clients
are placed by CPS or the courts but some are private placements
involving mom and/or dad. I have dealt with whack job parents
but I must say that the parents are not always wrong.
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