What is WRONG with this school???????

[PineBurrowPeeps]

Grrrrr this is SOOO wrong...

THIS is why I keep my kids home. I let my little girl who at the time was 6 herself, go across the street and play with the neighbors girl who was 7 and went to public school. My little girl came home after two visits talking all about boys, and how she wanted to start "dressing up for the boys" etc... I was like

I COULD NOT BELIEVE IT!
Hearing my 6 year old talk like that broke my heart a little. I have stopped letting them play together because the neighbors girl who is now nearly 9 and is constantly dressed to the nines in very innappropriate clothing for her age (IMO, short skirts, belly shirts, and pants with "JUICY" on the rear DO NOT belong on a 8 year old!). When the mother and I have talked she's said that the local public school kids are horrible about dress standards, kids as young as grade 1 get beat up if they're not wearing the "right" in style clothes, and she told me that her 14 year old son got teased and nearly jumped because the kids noticed that he was wearing LAST YEARS sytle of jeans! I was appalled.
Our counties schools have the highest rate of teen pregnancies and drug use in the state, and we are the MOST RURAL city. It makes me sick. The only thing I can think of are the kids are bord and don't know what else to do besides have sex, take drugs, and play video games.
I don't know why people who live in areas with bad schools send their kids to them, if you cannot homeschool FINE by me (I am not a diehard homeschooler who rants and raves), but your kids deserves a better school if you have such a cruddy one! Move to a different district, or lie and say you live with a relative or friend who does live in a better school district.

I feel bad for this little girl, what a horrible thing to happen to a first grader. I worry about the boys too, while I have found personally that public school kids are more "mature" than homeschooled kids (Mature isn't the right word but I'm trying to be nice here), things like choking, and violently stripping a fellow classmate are not things that normally come up in kids talking and playing with little supervision. I wonder if these boys are seeing these things at home... Ugh. What a sad situation ALL AROUND.

 

[teach1rusl]

I will reserve judgement until all sides are heard. I'm glad to hear that counselors are involved, hopefully they will be able to get the facts on both ends and help.

Some teachers do not properly supervise students, I've witnessed it first hand while working in a very unprofessional school that I resigned from this summer. And yes, some schools will try to cover up problems (same school). But I've also witnessed students fabricating stories about things that happen at school (usually misinterpretted, but sometimes just made up). I've watched a very nurturing, respectful teacher put her hand on a child's shoulder to get his attention and calmly/quietly ask him to get back in line. The next day the principal questioned her, saying a parent had called in accusing that the teacher of having shoved her child. In another incident, our art teacher was accused (by one of my students) of using the F word during her class. After much time spent investigating, come to find out that the student had just made that up (he admitted it), because his friend had suggested it. The school system admin. needs to make sure they get all the facts straight before they can address the problem.