School singling out my daughter, target of attacks, need help?

Question

It all started when we complained to the school upper administration about my daughters lack of scheduling. (they did not schedule her for classes) They took this personally and have targeted my daughter. They had her removed from her sports, screwed up her schedule and refused to fix it. then denied it to the school board when we complained. Now she has a class a period in her day that has no class scheduled and to mess with us more, they are requiring us to literally come to the school and pick her up for that hour and bring her back. All other students are allowed to go to a study hall class for a hole in their schedule. They simply said they would not accommodate our daughter and we have to check her out and check her in every single day!!!!!!!! My daughter is the only student this applies to. We have done nothing wrong, just asked people to do their jobs. The school board won't do anything who do we turn to? Also, my daughter is Hispanic and no staff at the school is a minority

Answer 1

Contact the ACLU , they can get you in touch with an educational advocate. The school is required to provide your daughter with an education, the recieve money from to gov. to do so. When they don't they are breaking the law. You can alsocontact your local/state reps, and state board of education.

Answer 2

You need to go back to the education dept or whatever it is called where you are and get a bit heavy handed. If that doesn't work you need to threaten to go to a lawyer. Believe me if you get enough attention focused on yourself they will do something about it. Take the problem to the local television station as it is ridiculous to have to pick your daughter up for an hour a day.
Then if you cannot solve the problem, take her out of that school and move her. It may be hard for her to be moved, but the benefits of the move would far outway the negative.
But I really think if you make enough noise they will fix the problem as bad media is not what a school wants.

Answer 3

Your daughter is the priority. Given that you have now approached the school board and were denied your request, you need to take a different approach. The new approach will be difficult, very difficult. You need to call a meeting with the principal and simply ask for a few moments of her time. At the meeting, look directly in the principal's eye and state...important...with a smile, "I believe you and I both have the same goal. We both want my daughter to be succesful and to make a contribution to society. I also believe that you and I are at odds with one another. I would like to apologize for my part in this situation and sit with you to determine how we can most effectively help guide my daughter through her issues. I recognize you are an educator and do value your opinion."

I never stated this was easy. It's never easy to apologize when you believe you are the one owed the apology. However, it is no longer about you. It is no longer about the school or the Board of Education. It is about your daughter and doing whatever you need to do to get her through the school year with a solid education.

I empathize. I have been in a similar situation with a child who did not want to go to school each day because of his teacher. The above approach was highly successful. And to this day...that teacher believes I think she is a great teacher, while in my heart, I know she did a great disservice to my son.

Another important factor: NEVER, EVER talk poorly about an educator in front of your child. Shelter your child. They do not need to know the specifics whatsoever. Let her be a child...and you take care of the hard issues, regardless of how bad you want to vent! Otherwise, you will teach her a dangerous lesson.

Best of luck!

Answer 4

I empathizewith your daughteer. Not with you. I was curious--this seemed an extereme, even giventhe usual screw-ups common in today's public schools, so I looked at your profile.

Either you are still in Oregon--and planning to move, in which case it's not that big a deal since you'll be gone shortly, or you've already moved to Raleigh.

If you've already moved, your previous questions make it clear you were looking for "racism" before you every moved--and that its been only a few days. And if you run around with a chip on your shoulder, sooner or later people around you will get sick of it--and you.

I don't condone the actions of the school--if it is as you've described, what they are doing is wrong. But if you want to solve the problem, quit looking for a fight. If you do have a legitimate complaint, then get a lawyer and let him/her handle it.

Answer 5

Schedule a meeting with the principal. Get whatever she is requiring of you in writing. Next try to the board of education, bring whatever documents you have that support what they are making you do as proof. Also bring the school handbook that shows that this is not normal school policy. If the board continutes to ignore your problem go over their head. See if there is some kind of department of education for your state. If not try the department of education (national).

Answer 6

Keep on applying pressure with the principal.Your daughter is the priority here.Has there been some sort of mix up with classes?

Answer 7

i'm confused about this...why does you child not have a full day of school? and are you sure that it is their fault she did not have her schedule done. i know for my school it is up to the student to take it upon themselves to do that, pushing them to become adults

Answer 8

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Answer 9

other than talking to them or sending her to a different school i dont see anything that you can do