local school suck

[PepperElf]

I'm not sure what school district this is, only that it's somewhere in the city I live in now.

I also don't remember what the lawsuit was over... I think it might have been because the teacher (I'll call her Ms X cos I don't remember her name) refused to pass a failing student or something like that... and instead of making their kid study the parents sued the school over her.

So the school board has decided to throw Ms X under the bus... They can't legally force her to pass a failing student (or whatever it was), so they're getting their revenge in other ways. They had to set aside funds for the lawsuit, so in the school budget they put it as a separate item reading, "Ms Firstname X's legal defense."

So yeah, their revenge is to attempt to turn all the parents against her by singling her out in the budget. So whenever a parent says, "what is this for?" they can basically point at Ms X and blame her.

[lupo pazzesco]

So, the parents are asshats. Raising an idiotic asshat and future EW. And a teacher who's actually TRYING to help students and not coast them through so the end up in college and don't know how to read at an 8th grade level is getting shafted?

....

I hate society...

[Akasa]

That's really sucky on the shcool district's part.

[tropicsgoddess]

So the teacher is being raked under the coals because some sucky parent wants their child to get a passing grade even though the child FAILED?!!! Ugh...no wonder there's so many entitlement minded students these days.

[i4wolves]

So the teacher is being raked under the coals because some sucky parent wants their child to get a passing grade even though the child FAILED?!!! Ugh...no wonder there's so many entitlement minded students these days.

I am an academic advisor for an online school and we have students (the average age 30) who think because they pay for the courses they should pass the class, even if they do not do anything. So this does not suprise me how some people are very entitled to things. The sad thing is that the school has to spend money on this lawsuit, it should have been dismissed right when it was filed.

[PepperElf]

and that they're singling her out on purpose too

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

That's public schools these days. I can't really imagine a private school responding in this fashion.

And then we wonder why there are so many people who can't read or write or do basic arithmetic. They've coasted through school and nobody actually made them learn anything.

[chainedbarista]

wouldn't she be able to sue for harrassment based on the creation of 'a hostile work enviornment' with the singling out and the district rolling over for this idiot family?

summat's not right here, and it's not the failing of a student...

[Geek King]

PepperElf, If you feel comfortable doing so, please PM me the name of the school. As a taxpayer who is partially funding the schools, I feel the itching need to write a letter to that school board and administrators. I may also know of a talk show host who would love making their life hell for trying to pass a student who hasn't earned it.

[taxguykarl]

wouldn't she be able to sue for harrassment based on the creation of 'a hostile work enviornment' with the singling out and the district rolling over for this idiot family?

summat's not right here, and it's not the failing of a student...

Not only that, but there are likely some union rules violated making the school system ripe for lawsuits that they can't win. For all we know those funds are for the settlement.

[Difdi]

I am an academic advisor for an online school and we have students (the average age 30) who think because they pay for the courses they should pass the class, even if they do not do anything.

Yeah, I'm constantly amazed at how many students don't understand that they are paying to be taught, not for a passing grade.

[Mr Hero]

I wouldn't be surprised in the least if this was the Clark County district in Vegas.

[TexasT]

That's one of the many reasons I'm fearful being a teacher nowadays. That's also why I have a separate lawyer from the school to represent me. In the education world, you'll hear "CYA" (cover your a**) all the time. "That student has been to the nurse and sent home 4 times in the last month. Have you kept a record of that? You better CYA." Everyone's constantly telling you to do that for every student. I'll be the first to admit, I don't do a good job of it. If I kept a record of it every time a student did A, B, or C, I wouldn't have time to teach. Think about it---if I told you to write down every time any of your 22 closest coworkers said the word "family" or used the restroom, could you? That's the kind of stuff I'm supposed to do.

[computeraide]

I work for a school district, and in public schools where I am from, all spending has to be transparent. Anyone can ask to inspect the district's budget with the proper amount of notice--for example we had an election recently and people petitioned the district to view spending habits of some of the employees and those records had to be turned over. So it might not be an attempt on the district's part to single anyone out; rather, it could be the district's policy to transparently label all line items in the budget.

[PepperElf]

PepperElf, If you feel comfortable doing so, please PM me the name of the school.

I honestly don't know. I got the story from someone I was talking to. (also why i don't know all the facts )