Sounds like it’s time to home school. No excuse for an innocent child to be subjected to violence.
Call the police AND a lawyer
they DO NOT want lawyers involved.
Step One - take her out of school. This will give you time to think about what to do, but it will also address the first issue: She is not safe and the Admins don’t give a poo. Do you think it will stop or continue without intervention? The whole world is out there - you are NOT stuck in that one city block of a school.
Step Two - you can homeschool. You can just keep her at home and have her read books. I had a kid who was out of school for 6 months (4th grade) bc his grandpa was sick. Tell them you are homeschooling and contact HSLDA on your RIGHTS as a citizen of a Free Country.
Step Three - then you can evaluate your options. And she’ll be safe. People think, ‘She can tough it out.” yes, but would you? to what avail? Isn’t it safer in your home? Pish - do it.
Drop me a note if you want. I am a teacher/ i homeschooled. It’s easy.
Have you contacted the school board? If you call them and suggest that you just wanted to let them know that you are going to have a lawyer working on it, they might be interested in talking to you (and maybe solving the problem?).
If she was punched that is a crime. Call the police
Sometime you just have to stand up for yourself.
You don’t have to win. You just have to be less of a target.
have you put the school on notice that if they don’t do something you will hire a lawyer? I would also point out to them the seriousness of this issue, as kids have become so despondent over bullying that they have taken their own lives before, and you are afraid that she could be pushed into such a serious scenario if the bullying continues, and that if they, the school, aren’t going to take this seriously, and address this issue NOW, that you will take them to court for failing to protect your daughter and to provide a safe environment for her to be in
Are you at the point of trying to resolve this with the school, or where you are going for a lawyer now? that makes a difference
I am sure any freeper in SC will answer your post but you may (if you are able to swing it) have her go to a Christian school in the area...I am not saying bullying doesn’t happen there but you may find the teachers and staff stopping it hard and quick if it happens. Plus with new surroundings she may flourish versus lawsuit and staying there. Though I would still be absolutely suing over her being punched- record EVERYTHING!
My sister went through this with her son during middle school. She went up to that school EVERY SINGLE DAY and also showed up at the school meetings. She made it such a big deal parents boycotted the school and it ended up for several weeks on the local news stations. It got fixed but the principal stepped in and made sure all classes were changed so that my nephew wasn’t even in the vicinity of the bullies classes so there paths didn’t cross plus they would touch base with him quietly throughout each day ...
Get a lawyer.
Threaten to sue the School administration, the School Board, the parents of the Bully.
It will stop..................
My daughter kneed a bully. That ended it.
Document everything right now, dates and times of everything that has occurred. They hate documentation and hope that you’ll be sloppy and emotional. This will make things much easier for a lawyer to support your case.
59-63-110 “Safe School Climate Act.” This is on page 51.
Just in case the school is not aware of the law.
It depends on the age. You didn’t say how old she was.
Teach your kid to fight or else she’ll be good hearted at the wrong time whole her life.
Hi Miss Edie.
I would highly recommend Russ Keep. He has an office on Hilton Head.
Undercover camera and once you have the evidence, hire a lawyer and sue the school district.
If you had to go to work every day and be exposed to coworkers hitting you and threatening you and your boss wouldn’t help and her boss wouldn’t help, what would you do? Tough it out? Hit back and maybe get jumped by several of your coworkers? Think it through and make a decision that best protects your child. It’s not like she can be replaced. Also think of the trauma she is experiencing. What can you do to mitigate it? And I agree, I would hire a lawyer and press charges against whoever struck your daughter.
What part of SC? If you don’t mind..
Has the school called the parents of the culprits?
Have you talked to those parents?
Talking to the School Board member who represents the school might help.
Threatening to go to the newspaper or TV station usually gets a principal out of his chair.
Take a day off and sit in class with your child one day.
If all else fails, pay the lawyer to write a letter to the parents with a copy going to the school and the Board.
Good luck.