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What would you do? I get a call today from my daughter's School that she was assaulted on the play ground by another student who was 8 years old... the girl had took a knife from the sink in the classroom that the teacher used to cut apples for the students. I get a call from our local police department telling me what had taken place and they had asked me "if I had got a call from the School"? I had told them that I didn't and they had came over to talk to me asking me what I wanted to do? I go to the School and I was told that the matter has been taken care of... B.S.!! you havent heard the last from me. I was told that the student was not going to be allowed to go outside with this I think no matter what the age they should have been exspelled zero tollerance and I was told "no that we don't do that" all because this youg girl was jealous of my daughter because she had better cloths than what she had. Should I sue the School or should I let it go?
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when my son was 6yrs old he pulled a headlock on a 5th grader and pushed him against the wall and said he was going to kill him
he got that from watching wrestling.. he wasent allowed to watch that for long time what i would do is pull your child out of school and do home schooling if you can |
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maybe not the school... but the teacher... she should not be allowing objects like that to be in reach to students like that... that is awful... it could have been played out a lot worse... be happy it only went as far as it did....
bolty |
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Not quite understanding who called first?
I'm thinking if any child assaulted mine with a knife there would be hell to pay. There is no way I would let it end with just the other kids recess privileges taken way. No way. Also, if the school did not call you straight away....a problem exists there too. |
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What would you do? I get a call today from my daughter's School that she was assaulted on the play ground by another student who was 8 years old... the girl had took a knife from the sink in the classroom that the teacher used to cut apples for the students. I get a call from our local police department telling me what had taken place and they had asked me "if I had got a call from the School"? I had told them that I didn't and they had came over to talk to me asking me what I wanted to do? I go to the School and I was told that the matter has been taken care of... B.S.!! you havent heard the last from me. I was told that the student was not going to be allowed to go outside with this I think no matter what the age they should have been exspelled zero tollerance and I was told "no that we don't do that" all because this youg girl was jealous of my daughter because she had better cloths than what she had. Should I sue the School or should I let it go? I am so sorry. I would be so upset if that had happened to my child. They would not hear the end of it from me!! |
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I would press charges - even a child of 8 knows (or damn well should) that it is not acceptable to threaten anyone with a knife.
Good luck, I hope your daughter is alright - make sure she talks to someone - a counselor or the like. |
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when my son was 6yrs old he pulled a headlock on a 5th grader and pushed him against the wall and said he was going to kill him he got that from watching wrestling.. he wasent allowed to watch that for long time what i would do is pull your child out of school and do home schooling if you can |
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wow my son when he was in like 2nd grade got kicked out for 2 days... all he did was take a rosebud Green one and put it up the faucet so it would come out when the water was turned on.. to freak the next faucet user out.. I would not take your child outta the school , for that makes it ok for some kid to do this again because nothing happens... if anything the staber should be removed to another district!! and the school best be doing something if it happens again right away..
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I think that the school system should require counseling for the person that did the assaulting.
It wouldn't hurt if the daughter had counseling too. |
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Edited by
MsCarmen
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Thu 12/18/08 06:48 AM
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OMG, in our school system, that girl WOULD have been expelled, and charges would have been brought against her!
What the he!! kind of school system gives a kid a slap on the hand for assaulting another kid with a knife? What would they have done if your daughter would have gotten seriously injured? Is that when they would have finally done something about it? This is unbelievable!  If it were me, I would go full force not only on pressing charges on the girl, but I'd also do everything in my power to get that policy changed, at least for the welfare of the other children there. |
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I'm not sure whether or not you can sue the school but you can damn well press charges against the child. As for the school, I would definitely contact an attorney. You should not just let this go.
My son was suspended for defending himself against a bully, we have ZERO tolerance here for physical violence. If there is no policy in the school against things like this, if it were me, I'd make damn sure they instituted one, no matter what measure I had to take to do it. |
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My little brother was assaulted not to long ago in school. Another kid started hitting him with his belt buckle and left welts and bruises on my brother. When the school didn't do anything my mom went to the Superintendant of the school and eventually the child was suspended for 10 days or so and has to take anger management classes. Take it as high up in the school as you can. There is something you can do to try to make sure it doesnt happen again and have someone take responsibility. I'm so sorry to hear that happened and good luck with everything!
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 My little brother was assaulted not to long ago in school. Another kid started hitting him with his belt buckle and left welts and bruises on my brother. When the school didn't do anything my mom went to the Superintendant of the school and eventually the child was suspended for 10 days or so and has to take anger management classes. Take it as high up in the school as you can. There is something you can do to try to make sure it doesnt happen again and have someone take responsibility. I'm so sorry to hear that happened and good luck with everything! save the next child. the school needs to set an example that that type of behavior is not going to be accepted. be a part of making it safer for all children, your daughter will feel she is the one being punished if you just take her outta the school
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What concerns me is that you stated that you were notified by the police and NOT the school!!! There is something wrong there if the school is not notifying you of your child being threatened with a weapon. It shoulds like to me that school was trying to cover it up. I would consult an attorney and determine if the school is liable for not informing you of the incident.
And I would consider pressing charges also, if a child is willing to take an opportunity of grabbing a knife and threatening another student, there needs to be intervention on that child. |
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First, I would have a very long talk with my daughter, get her side of it, then I would go talk to the parents of the little terrorist, and see where all that anger came from. Schools are on a tight budget as it is, so sueing the scholl will harm everyone, and that girl could have stabbed your daughter with a pencil too. Pencils are everywhere in schools. Granted, the teacher should not have left a knife lying around, but he already learned that lesson, and won't do anything like that again, so that problem is already taken care of. If your daughter didn't get cut, the only thing that transpired is that she's a little tougher and street smart now. She learned a very valuable lesson, and that is that you cannot trust anyone that you don't know real well. That lesson may save her life someday. It shouldn't have to be this way, but im afraid it's time to put vegematics in all the classrooms. Dennis
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What would you do? I get a call today from my daughter's School that she was assaulted on the play ground by another student who was 8 years old... the girl had took a knife from the sink in the classroom that the teacher used to cut apples for the students. I get a call from our local police department telling me what had taken place and they had asked me "if I had got a call from the School"? I had told them that I didn't and they had came over to talk to me asking me what I wanted to do? I go to the School and I was told that the matter has been taken care of... B.S.!! you havent heard the last from me. I was told that the student was not going to be allowed to go outside with this I think no matter what the age they should have been exspelled zero tollerance and I was told "no that we don't do that" all because this youg girl was jealous of my daughter because she had better cloths than what she had. Should I sue the School or should I let it go? if you go after anyone it should be the family of the perpetrator you do not give info in the post that would hold the school or the teacher responsible if the perp brought the weapon to school how does that make the school or the teacher responsible i would suggest wanting the perp put in a holding cell in veiw of adults and friends (to aviod abuse) maybe in the cafeteria of the school for 7 alternating days that way the kid can keep up on their school work and it may keep them form going to real jail in the future |
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A kid brought a GI Joe to school with a 1 inch plastic knife accessory. And got suspended for it.
A kid pocketing the teacher's food knife and attacking the student not only attacked another child with a knife, but stole it. Theft and assault. And they are not letting the child go out for recess..... I don't get it. Well, the police did ask you what you wanted to do. You CAN press assault charges. Since the school is turning a blind eye to the problem. It sounds extreme. But any 8 yr old that is stealing knives to threaten another child need help and someone needs to do something to draw it to the attention of people who can do something about it. |
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My mother was a third grade teacher for a while and one of her students grabbed a little girl's butt. He got expelled for it. I'm sure you could demand that the child be expelled. There's no reason for your daughter to feel threatened at school.
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I think that you should persue this through the courts, if necessary. I would want her expelled, and but also try to put stipulations that the child get some kind of counseling. She needs some help. If she just gets a slap on the wrist, then she will think she can always get away with it, and next time, your daughter could get hurt or worse.
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Wondering whatever became of this? What was the outcome?
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