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The School Social Worker Called Today

post #1 of 11
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And left a message on my machine saying he would be talking to Austin sometime today, and would call me later to let me know how it went.
UM excuse me, who gave you permission to talk to him!!!!
So i called the school and talked to the principal. I told her this fellow left a message and said he would be talking to austin, she says yes here at the school later. I said to her " We never granted permission for a social worker to talk to him. She said yes your husband did when he talked to the vice principal on Monday. That was before Rich talked to me about it and the vice P. said he would be sending a note home to be signed for permission, and we never got one. She said we have the right to talk to your child once without parents permission. I told her in no way is he talking to a Social worker. It is not necessary, he knows what he did was wrong, he has lost privelages at school and at home, he has apologized to the girl and I told her as far as we are concerned that it is over and done with. All the while she has this snotty tone to her. She said "well if you feel that strongly about it then we wont have him do it".
Ok give me a freakin break. This happend on Monday and you want to bring it up to Austin 3 days later, and make him feel worse about it than he already does!!!! We had a long talk with Austin on Monday and have not talked about it since. We know exactly what happend and I told the principal that and she never asked me to explain it to her.
I could tell she wasnt to thrilled with me saying no but that is to darn bad. And what blows me away is that they supposidly have the right to have a social worker talk to your child once without your permission is seriously messed up!
post #2 of 11
I think initially that was started for kids who are being sevrelly mistreated and it has blossomed from there. Your ds is clearly not being abused in any way, so I don't see how that applies.
post #3 of 11
I don't see why a social worker should be involved either. They should be focusing on children who are neglected and abused.
post #4 of 11
Thread Starter 
I totally agree with both of you.
They me feel like I am a bad parent in some way. The whole thing just upsets me.
post #5 of 11
I would phone the school board and ask them about it. I mean heck that can't be right....I mean it would be different if the situation were different and he had done worse than what he did./...or if he didnt' understand that what he did was bad.....or if you (the parents) didn't do anything to discipline him in any way................
post #6 of 11
I'm glad they at least honored your decision but most school districts do have that stipulation in place that they don't need your consent for one meeting.

I think that waiting 3 days was pointless, but now he's over it and knows what happened and is on punishment anyhow.
post #7 of 11
I agee I would call the school board too = I guess if the parents of the little girl were upset - then I would think to also repsect their wishes (since it was their daughter) - but if its been a few days, and its past and the other parents have handled the situation its really unfortunate...
post #8 of 11
The nerve!
post #9 of 11
Thread Starter 
I havent heard anything about the little girls parents. All I know is that they know. It is not up to them what type of procedure is done.
I dont think I am going to call the school board, I will if the school calls again, I will let the board know what is going on.
I am going to also ask Austin today if anyone talked to him and if they did, they dont want me coming down there!
post #10 of 11
I don't think that's right at all, Jenn...they should at the very least notify you ahead of time that a social worker would be involved. Considering Rich was confused about it or whatever, he should ahve called the school back to clarify. Now don't get me wrong I'm not griping about him, but, kwim? Anyways, I wouldn't want a social worker involved in something small like this...c'mon, he's 6 YEARS OLD!
post #11 of 11
I agree Jenn, that is totally wrong of the school.
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