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Originally Posted by indes
My 9yr old son was pushed off a climbing wall in the playground at school last week. He fell from about 6' up and hit his head on one of those floating plastic step things and ended up with a concussion, very lucky he didn't break his neck. This was in outdoor class at the end of the day so instead of taking my son to the office to get looked at the teacher just asked if he thought he could take the bus. By the time he got home he had short term memory loss, couldn't control his emotions and was a complete space cadet.
My wife and I are absolutely livid that he got sent home that day and the school is downplaying it as "not a big deal" and "they'll deal with it" and are just giving us the run around with platitudes, principal isn't able to make any time to meet with us and yada yada. We've complained about this kid before and we already put in the request to move schools next year, before this incident, because of this ####ing kid. For all the bullying rhetoric we hear throughout the year you would think there would be some avenues for my kid to be able to be safe at school.
Complete joke.
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We had an issue with a bully in my son's class that the school wasn't dealing with. We completed the CBE complaints process here:
https://cbe.ab.ca/about-us/contact-u.../concerns.aspx
While it took a bunch of time (and they consistently responded the very last day they were allowed to and then insisted we respond within 24 hours) we did end up getting a written guarantee that my son would never be in his class again.
If you're in a different board I would imagine they'd have a similar process.
I agree with @titan that remaining calm and factual is the best way (which can be difficult when its your kids safety at stake). But I think following their specific process made it harder for it to get swept under the rug any more, because there were documentation requirements for them.