I am so annoyed.
Cody came home yesterday and told me that he was with his broadcasting class in the computer room. Another student was sitting a couple of computers away. Cody tossed him a pencil, the teacher sees and sends him to the AP's office. He gets Saturday detention. Let's just take a quick gander at the "discipline" form that was sent to my house that I received today.
"Cody stood up and threw a SHARPENED pencil AT another student across the room (two computers away) over the heads of the three students."
It sounds like a knife.
It sounds like an assault.
It actually said across the room and immediately following stated - two computers away. These computers are stationed right next to each other, maximizing space. So "across the room" was in fact, maybe, four feet.
This is exactly the kind of distortion of reality that the schools paint of events involving boys. There's no opportunity to discuss what happened, the teacher & AP generally disregard anything the students say about the event, claiming that bullies often intimidate their victims into backing them up. Regardless of what actually happened they slam the hammer down. Zero flippin tolerance. It's inane. I am so telling the director of student support that I am meeting with on Friday about this.
Another Saturday detention.
Geez.
Cody came home yesterday and told me that he was with his broadcasting class in the computer room. Another student was sitting a couple of computers away. Cody tossed him a pencil, the teacher sees and sends him to the AP's office. He gets Saturday detention. Let's just take a quick gander at the "discipline" form that was sent to my house that I received today.
"Cody stood up and threw a SHARPENED pencil AT another student across the room (two computers away) over the heads of the three students."
It sounds like a knife.
It sounds like an assault.
It actually said across the room and immediately following stated - two computers away. These computers are stationed right next to each other, maximizing space. So "across the room" was in fact, maybe, four feet.
This is exactly the kind of distortion of reality that the schools paint of events involving boys. There's no opportunity to discuss what happened, the teacher & AP generally disregard anything the students say about the event, claiming that bullies often intimidate their victims into backing them up. Regardless of what actually happened they slam the hammer down. Zero flippin tolerance. It's inane. I am so telling the director of student support that I am meeting with on Friday about this.
Another Saturday detention.
Geez.
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