Posted by lynn970 on August 19, 2005, at 18:41:34
Today a student came up to me to report that a student was poking other children on the school bus with a needle. (The needle was the kind that is used by diabetics to check their blood sugar levels.) He was using the same dirty needle to poke other children with.
I went to the pricipal to report this but she was not at school yet. I then went to the assistant pricipal's office. He told me to write a disciplinary report on the young guy and that he would get to it later.
His order upset me because to me he should have called the young boy in right away. I then went to the main office and told the secretary that I thought that this deserved immediate attention.
I later went to the principal to suggest to her that the parents of the victims needed to be contacted.
All in all, the young perpetrator only got suspended from school for three days.
Am I crazy to think that not enough was done in this situation. I can only think about if someone poked my child with a dirty needle. I would be outraged.
The OCD in me keeps telling me that I handled the whole thing wrong. I am also afraid that the assistant principal will hold something against me because I went above his head.
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