Just a Few Facts

A lot of people have asked did I give Gordonsville High School Administrators, Janice Fox and Roger Lewis enough time to address our issues or make any corrections. I feel 8 months is more then enough time.

Our issues started with this teacher on January 3rd, 2008 when she physically grabbed our child for the first time. The conflict and confrontation with her have progressively gotten worse to the point where we felt the need to withdraw our child from any further contact with this teacher for her protection until the school district could remedy the situation. We withdrew her from a activity in which she has been a member for 4 years on July 25, 2008 until the administration addressed our concerns.

After weeks of conversations and requests for help our family was told that because of the conflict it would be better for our child to sit out a year and maybe return next year. In a nutshell the school system thought it would be better to punish a child and keep all of our issues under the rug.

We also requested help from Janice Fox and Roger Lewis only to go through countless unreturned phone calls, visits to the office with no meeting and empty promises to get back to me. Upon telling Mr. Lewis if he didn‘t address the issue I would need to seek help from someone else he commented “I will inform Jackie Bellar“. Then
he slammed the door in my face literally. Mr. Lewis our Superintendent of Schools would rather have a parent file a lawsuit versus resolve the issue.

In all fairness we did get one piece of advice from Janice Fox however. If we weren’t happy we could always transfer our child to Smith County High School and sign her up for classes in Lebanon to keep her active. Of course she neglected to tell us we only had 12 hours to make that decision because the next morning school started. School board policy states that once your child attends the first day of school they can not transfer in district without school board approval. So bottom line we live with this injustice or move.