Question on Schools....update

Would anyone happen to know who I would contact to resolve a school issue if the vice principal, principal and superintendent won't fix a situation? Is there anyone in charge above the superintendent?

 

Thanks everyone!!

 

Thanks!

I guess the situation is settled, although I am not sure I am happy with the outcome.

Yesterday my daughter was given detention, first time ever...2 hours...because her and two friends were found sitting in the cafeteria during activities period working on their Junior class project. Apparently the 'paraprofessional' came by and found the girls working and told them they weren't allowed in there, wrote down their homerooms and names and gave them each 120 mins of detention for being somewhere they weren't supposed to be.

The kicker is....my daughter signed out of her homeroom and on the signout sheet, she put cafeteria!! The other two girls didn't tell anyone where they were going.

So after getting the vice principal to actually go and check what the paper my daughter signed out on said...he admitted to me that she did indeed put where she was going. He says the other two girls have to do 2 hours, but he would cut my daughters detention down to a hour and that she could serve that in two half hour lunch detentions instead of after school. He claims she should have known that they weren't allowed in the cafeteria at that time.

I said don't you think if she knew that, she wouldn't have written it down on the paper...DUH!! He says, I don't get why they would go to the cafeteria, its so wide open, they would definitely get caught. I said well shouldn't that prove to you that they thought it would be ok to work there?!?!?

Is it just me? Cause these people make me want to Am I wrong? I dunno. I finally let it go...partly because its a lesson for her, she could have asked and made sure. I just don't know how to explain to her why she's getting punished for telling where she would be and then actually working on a class project!

ETA: I did contact the Superintendent by email, he personally called me this morning and after listening, he asked if I had spoken to the head principal at the school yet, which I haven't. He said he would forward my email to him and if I didn't get things resolved to contact him again.

 

Thats what keeps running through my head too. I tried to explain to him that they can't just give blanket punishments out like that and have to look at each situation. Its like talking to a brick wall though!