Wednesday, October 22, 2008
To Clear Things Up
This blog was started because we had exhausted all of the chain of commands, wanted to share how our child and family was treated by the school system and seek the advice of our fellow residents. This blog doesn’t make us anti GHS or anti GHS teachers. We have had three children attend GHS and are proud to be Tigers. Trust me I have enough BLUE & WHITE to last me, my grandchildren and great grandchildren a lifetime of Tiger wear. There are a lot of great teachers, administrators and staff at GHS that has helped prepare our children for their futures, share in the good times and bad. We are thankful to have them in our childrens lives. Our children have had to face the consequences for their actions and yes we have forced them to apologize when they make mistakes. Our children have had to serve detentions, write-offs and run extra because like most people they aren’t perfect. Anyone that is reading this and knows our family understands the reason we started this blog. For those that don’t know us we aren’t whacked out parents that fight the school and school system every time they send Jr to the office. With that said we won’t be transferring our daughter to another school system and we won’t be moving or leaving town in the cover of darkness. Sorry but we are here to stay and will continue to fight for our child and yours.
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AMEN keeping fighting for justice!!
ReplyDeleteDo you really feel this is the best way to handle the situation you are your family are faced with? By creating this website what have you accomplished in the past 9 months?
ReplyDeleteIt appears you time is running out. If you want justice you will have to take the legal route. Other wise Lewis and his handpicked supervisors will win. They can wait you out, because clearly by their lack of action, they care nothing about what happened to your child. They have time on their side and don't care if this is ever resolved. I would try the media, this sure sounds like somehting they would like to look into. Other wise all you can do is seek legal action.
ReplyDeleteI think some people are misunderstanding the reasons for starting the blog. Your daughter was treated unfairly and nothing is being done! The Smith County School System is in a mess and things have to change! Any good director would sit down with the principal, teacher, child, and parents and try to get it settled but in our system, it is Lewis' way or no way! It is a shame that things like this have to be started just to be heard. Lewis said at the last board meeting that "certain situations are to be handled at the school level" but what happens when it is not resolved at that level? Shouldn't you be able to go further! Keep fighting! You are doing the right thing!
ReplyDeleteFrom reading this the only thing done at the school level was the student being punished by the coach and principal. I read all of the comments but not one person has stated what she did to be grabbed or what caused the coach and principal to feel she needed to sit out a year. Does anyone know?
ReplyDeleteAll this because a teacher doesn’t want to apologize or agree to act the way she should have been acting in the first place. This story is very sad for Smith County Schools. I wonder if the situation was reversed if the student could have just apologized, promised to act according to school polices and still be attending school. The parents did pull their daughter but I sure that was done in the heat of the moment so why not let her come back. From the outside looking in I would say all of this is because the teacher has a problem with the parents and the child is being punished for it. GHS, Lewis and Fox need to correct this situation what supporters they did have are losing faith. If they aren't willing then the board needs to step in. Our district does not need another lawsuit filed.
ReplyDeleteResponse to quote from Anonymous-October 24, 2008 7:33 AM- "From reading this the only thing done at the school level was the student being punished by the coach and principal. I read all of the comments but not one person has stated what she did to be grabbed or what caused the coach and principal to feel she needed to sit out a year. Does anyone know?"
ReplyDeleteDid you read the blogger posts or just the comments? See (at least)this link- (just copy & paste)
http://gordonsvillehighschool.blogspot.com/2008/10/update.html
I don't care if a student became belligerent and began cursing at the teacher, grabbing and shoving someone is not ever the proper "punishment", especially in the school setting. If your boss got angry with you and did that, you might be, at the least tempted to file suit.
I think this family has been very generous in being so patient, I sure would not have been.
Most of the comments on this blog against the family are finding ways to make light of this situation, but if situations like this one continue to be ignored then it will only get worse in the future. We are these people's pay check for crying out loud, they are in position to educate our children and nobody cares that serious emotional, and now physical abuse continues to go on within the protection of our school board?
Also, any of you who have not followed the links on this site to the state's legislation on bullying try to take a minute to do so, it is really I opening! Especially since it was initially meant toward describing students who are bullies and people who witness bullying and do nothing, but these educators seem to fit the bill perfect!
Lots of people are acting like this is the only incident at the schools right now. I wonder what would happen if all the parents who had legitimate issues began to blog about them? Strength in numbers you know.
ReplyDeleteMay be someone could start a Smith County School System Forum. A legitimate place to voice concerns and even post about the good stuff as well.
It could be moderated by a neutral person to keep out only the grossly offensive, then the board members would have a 24 hour place to go and find out what their constituents really feel, need and believe.
Just a thought.
i read the policy book, school rules and even the cheerleading rules can someone tell me what page the rule is on that states if your parents confront a coach or pull you for your safety you will be required to sit out 365. Is it in the policy book, school rules or is this just a cheerleading rule?
ReplyDeleteDo not stop fighting. I know you have gotten a few bad comments but alot of people that aren't on here are supporting you and your daughter. Keep fighting we all need change.
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