Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[ChicoryBlue]

She might have to get a lawyer for further assistance with this case.

My thoughts exactly. @RebeccaBoyd you can consult a personal injury lawyer about it and see what they say. It will be a free consult, and that person can start to make inquiries. If nothing legal comes from it, it still may move “Fight Central” and the community and school board to make changes.
No need to feel hesitant about consulting someone - you can be sure the school and school board consulted their own legal teams within hours of the incident. The principal’s rude behaviour and lack of substantive comment sounded to me like their legal defense is already underway. It may be that the board hired this bully because he’s good at getting others to back down. The school nickname tells us this is not the first incident they’ve worked to brush off.

Hello everybody!

 

[RebeccaBoyd]

We played phone tag with the county attorney's office, sheriffs office and county clerks office this afternoon to get the information needed to bring up charges. The county attorney's office had already heard about the fight. We finally got to speak to the right person and we were emailed what we needed to fill out to take to them. They just called back with wonderful news. We have to do NOTHING!! The sheriff who is at the school just filed charges against her for assault personally. They could not tell us more where the girl is a minor but she said this was the best thing that could happen. This has more pull then if I and the boys parents had filed personally. She did recommend we at least consult with a lawyer as we were planning on doing as well.

 

[Lilion]

It became abundantly clear yesterday that loosing my temper is not the way to go about this. I need to have a calm cool head and it is not easy right now.

I am in uncharted territory right now. Personally I never was trouble in school after kindergarten. My brother and sister were never in any trouble. I have been blessed to say Rosie has never once been in trouble either. I have heard stories and rumors about the high school. I have heard it is a joke when trying to get any disciplinary action done. Rosie has told me the school has a nick name of "Fight Central".

What I want to do is go up there and loose it and call that principal everything under the sun. Rosie still has 2 more years there. For her sake I cannot do that to her.

I have thought about yanking her out and sending her to another one. I will not do that. As far as opportunities and the best classes offered, her high school is the best option and she is thriving. Pulling her out would just hurt her in the long run. If when she returns and they give her grief and do not help her get caught up, I will be at the school board with bells ringing.

I have also questioned to myself why on earth did the boy not fight back and defend himself. His parents asked him the same question and the answer hurts my soul. He said if he had pushed or hit her he would be in jail for assault because she is a girl. You know he is right. I have had to step back and evaluate my ways of thinking. I am a firm believer that a man should never hit a woman. But you know, if the tables are turned and a woman starts beating a man he should be able to defend himself without fear of being put in jail.

You're completely in the right here.

I've also heard of zero tolerance policies so that even if you are defending yourself you still are in trouble because you were fighting, even if it was for your life.

This was my son's school. It didn't matter if you were only defending yourself, anyone laying hands on someone else was punished. Luckily for my kid, it was just in-school suspension, where they had to sit and work in a special classroom. He got a couple. Once, totally his fault. He let himself get talked into a fight by his friends. The other, it was self defense. He got punished twice, home and school, for the one he started, but he got no punishment at home for defending himself.

My thoughts exactly. @RebeccaBoyd you can consult a personal injury lawyer about it and see what they say. It will be a free consult, and that person can start to make inquiries. If nothing legal comes from it, it still may move “Fight Central” and the community and school board to make changes.
No need to feel hesitant about consulting someone - you can be sure the school and school board consulted their own legal teams within hours of the incident. The principal’s rude behaviour and lack of substantive comment sounded to me like their legal defense is already underway. It may be that the board hired this bully because he’s good at getting others to back down. The school nickname tells us this is not the first incident they’ve worked to brush off.

Hello everybody!

This. I guarantee, the schools attorneys are fully apprised of the situation and operation deny and deflect is in full swing.

Two-fer Tax.

 

[Sylvester017]

13+yrs saga cont'd...

(2018) There's enough sorrow losing our Dominique OPAL in July from heatstroke. Then our two remaining Dominiques got Bumblefoot. First DANA in August ~ she had surgery at the vet's ofc so she was recuperating in-house for a couple months to keep the daily bandages clean. Dana had bumblefoot in both pads which an injury is usually one foot only so the vet suspected the roosting perch was the problem & should be padded softer for chicken feet.

Then a couple months later our other Dominique JEWLZ got Bumblefoot (WTH?) & we made another trip to the vet w/a different bumblefoot case & again the vet asked if we had padded the roost perch! We already had the perch padded w/soft stretch wide Ace bandage wrap the whole length of the perch so we were puzzled at why the bumblefoot?! W/ Jewlz the vet did not do surgery but instructed us how to treat it ourselves at home.
JEWLZ

What a frustrating experience having one recuperating Dom finally returned outdoors only to have a 2nd Dom hen to treat for a few weeks more indoors.

CHAR the Breda hen continued being obnoxious toward little Silkie VIOLET but there was at least one Dominique protecting Violet from Char while each Dominique had turns recuperating indoors!

VIOLET & CHAR~this counts as 2fer Tues right?

Meanwhile I was still gardening and working on expanding the chicken yard while nursing house hens!

Hen yard in 2018

I can relate to people building coops, runs, & yards for their chickens & how slow the work goes! It never ends!

It's 2024 now & still modifications continue! Will show progress pics later.

...to be cont'd...

 

[ChicoryBlue]

My thoughts exactly. @RebeccaBoyd you can consult a personal injury lawyer about it and see what they say. It will be a free consult, and that person can start to make inquiries. If nothing legal comes from it, it still may move “Fight Central” and the community and school board to make changes.
No need to feel hesitant about consulting someone - you can be sure the school and school board consulted their own legal teams within hours of the incident. The principal’s rude behaviour and lack of substantive comment sounded to me like their legal defense is already underway. It may be that the board hired this bully because he’s good at getting others to back down. The school nickname tells us this is not the first incident they’ve worked to brush off.

Hello everybody!

Tax: Diane Ida-Biter, looking for a fight after instigating one with a hard peck on my arm. She found the cellphone pretty annoying, needing a good peck too. But here she's scoping out another arm peck

 

[rural mouse]

Shackle? Where are those? I never had roos?

It's supposed to be HACKLE. That's the feathers around the neck that they make stand up (hens do when broody). Whiskey's blonde tipped pointy orange feathers. Roos will flare them in fights and when shaking their feathers into place and sometimes when getting ready to crow.

 

[Marie2020]

Fruit has a lot of water in it, I wouldn’t worry unless she continues for more than a day or two.

Thanks Kelly. That's eased my mind a little. She has also started moulting and wasn't at all her perky self today

 

[rural mouse]

I hear owners dispatch egg eaters before other birds pick up the habit? The little carnivores!

I've found it usually means I need to increase the calcium on the side. Do that and they stop eating eggs

 

[rural mouse]

You're completely in the right here.

This was my son's school. It didn't matter if you were only defending yourself, anyone laying hands on someone else was punished. Luckily for my kid, it was just in-school suspension, where they had to sit and work in a special classroom. He got a couple. Once, totally his fault. He let himself get talked into a fight by his friends. The other, it was self defense. He got punished twice, home and school, for the one he started, but he got no punishment at home for defending himself.

This. I guarantee, the schools attorneys are fully apprised of the situation and operation deny and deflect is in full swing.

Two-fer Tax.
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I've got a nephew who ended up in a "fight" in middle school. He deflected / dodged all the punches, didn't throw a single one and was still getting suspended. His dad asked him where he wanted to go for ice cream, while still in the principal's office. Principal was outraged. Dad calmly explained that punishing his son for doing as he'd been taught by defending himself was NOT something he would ever do. Instead, he would reward him for his outstanding excersise in good judgment under difficult circumstances.

Kid is currently starting college courses after several years in Army Reserves Corp of Engineers. Going for a constitutional law degree, and still very much willing to stand up for the underdog.

 

[rural mouse]

Tax: Diane Ida-Biter, looking for a fight after instigating one with a hard peck on my arm. She found the cellphone pretty annoying, needing a good peck too. But here she's scoping out another arm peck
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How are you and your girls doing?