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My son goes to talawanda middle school, I have had nothing but problems with the school for 2 yrs. My son has Adhd and has aproblem focusing in class. I had him on meds for many years and after we saw the affects from the meds we decided to take him off of these. The school along with the listed counsoler in the previous story tries to push the meds back on my family, it is my decision not theirs. In this case he has been bullied both by the teachers and the students. I feel he has been labeled. He is getting points constantly, resulting in suspension after suspension. One day a teacher gave him points for supposidly hitting a kid in the hall, but his friends who were with him told me he did not do it. Then two weeks ago a boy told the teacher that he threw a paper wad at him resulting in more points I was told he did not do this. He has constantly gotten bullied by other kids but nothing ever got done about it.I feel the points system has gone to far, and the teachers take advantage of it.A teacher there also told my son that he was special and not in the good way. I have heard of two different occasions that a student has gotten hurt and these students were not aloud to go to the nurses office till later.I have found nothing but the worst in the talawanda school system.The teachers are bullies just as bad as some of the students, where does this lead to? How can anything be done when they are also to blame.
ADHD - Please by all means you better drug your children.. According to school officials these drugs for “specific student” help them to concentrate and control their behavior. Unfortunately, some of these kids do not want to be on the drugs and the future implications (drug addiction, problems with higher thinking) all these side effects are being overlooked. In order to get some of these kids to take the drugs parents have to tell them it is for their own good and that they are special. Many feel like outcasts. So to feel better they tell other children what adults tell them. Beware however, parents when you are dealing with drugs like retilin and related drugs that they are a controlled substance and that once your child is on them you are responsible for the outcome. Here is and example of what can happen with the schools policies on Zero Tolerance
Currently, one of my children age 14 that lost her mother to brain cancer 2 years ago, was struggling with other traumatic issues and was told by one of her friends that her friend had trouble concentrating and that her mom gave her medication. My 14 year old (creative thinker that she is) decided that maybe the drug would help her concentrate. So she asked her sister (age 12) to ask her friend (also age 12) to give her one of her pills to see if it would help her concentrate.
She was given the pills by the 12 year old and took them. She had a bad reaction and went to the school nurses office. She told them what she had done. Well as you can guess here is the current situation.
The school in its zeal to crack a drug ring consisting of a 14 year old and 2 twelve year olds, not only did not call me, inform me of the risk or danger to her health maybe her life, I would not have know anything had she not called me in secret on her cell phone. When I arrived, they were in the process of questioning the 12 year old while the 14 year old under the influence of a controlled substance was left alone, not examine and told to write her statement “because it will ease your conciense and make you feel better”. I was not told that she had access to more than one pill. I was not informed that they were to be questioned by the police, nor was I told that she could possibly have taken more than one pill. I was given the impression that this was simply a matter of filling out paper work and I should take her home.
After I took her home, this is when they decided now is the time to inform me that she was expelled pending investigation of drug charges. The next day the 12 year old who was not suspended was interrogated by police, given her rights which she waived at the advice of the Asst Principle and was asked implicating questions, such as did the other 12 year old give you these drugs and did you give her money.
The drugs were 2 years old, old bottles of ADD medication.
All three girls had to get attornies and go to the police station for booking and finger printing and face felony drug charge should the prosecuter decide to pursue it.
It is imparitive that you be aware what can happen when the very same officials who insist on giving your children drugs to control them then decide that these drugs are dangerous and use their zero tolerance laws to prosecute the very same children.
My five year old daughter recently got in trouble in daycare. Admittedly, this is daycare (and not school), but I think it’s symptomatic of the world view of education at large.
The reason she got in trouble?
My five year old was in trouble because she was bitten on the nose and punched the girl in the face to get her to let go. To clarify; she was bitten on the nose hard enough that when the teacher picked the other girl up to get her off of my child, my child was DANGLING from this girl’s teeth! Her feet were actually OFF the ground!
If she got in trouble for hitting the kid first, that’s one thing, but what she got in trouble for was hitting the girl in front of the teacher in an attempt to get away.
Their reasoning was that they thought the other girl’s mother would be mad if my child were not punished in some way.
Martial Arts lessons (Kenpo) start for my daughter next month.
This is a sick, sick, world - and the education system is NOT helping it.
Punishments for retaliation seem to be quite common - not just now, but for my entire “career” in school up to 12th grade. The concept escaped me then, and still does today.
I’m thinking that this philosophy is not just found in education, but is pervasive throughout our society.
Yeah, but there’s a huge difference between retaliation and immediate self-defense. Who would expect her daughter to sit there and accept the fact that her nose was being bitten off? I think it would be unnatural if she didn’t hit the other student.
That’s the point - it has become politically correct to teach them to be unnatural.
I’ve informed them that future attacks will be met with defensive measures, and that she’ll be taking classes in either Kenpo or Kung Fu very soon.
My oldest daughter was recently reprimanded for referring to sitting ‘Indian Style’ (she was told to call it criss-cross applesauce). They told her saying that was offensive to [American] Indians. Funny thing…she *IS* an Indian.
I’ve told her that political correctness stops at her mind. She didn’t understand that, so I told her to say whatever they tell her to say, but to look her teacher in the eye and tell her she’ll think whatever word she wants.
Idiocy.