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By Dr. Harry Tennant
Sunday, November 27, 2011 Schools Are Expected To Eliminate All Animosity Between Students...Or Prove They Tried To! Beyond the fact that documentation can help guide decision-making in our schools, we are regularly reminded that it can also protect schools when push comes to shove. Bullying, in particular, is serious business these days. Are the educators in your school carefully:
It sounds easy. School personnel know it is not. It may seem unnecessary. It definitely is not. Nonetheless, proper documentation is professional behavior. We all know that students are often in conflict of one sort or another. School personnel, especially in middle school, spend a significant chunk of time investigating and resolving all sorts of student disputes---including bullying. Consider a case like that below. A student tries to kill herself. She had reported bullying. The family claims that nothing was done. It goes on and on. It is a we-said, they-said. The school should have documentation to refute her claims. It sounds like this case was prolonged enough that they may. Often, there would be little to no documentation. The story below is repeated often...across our country. This headline isn't new and we are seeing it more frequently. Is your school ready to prove your due diligence when students are being pushed to the edge like this? Many schools are doing most everything they can to prevent incidents like it. They should do themselves the service of documenting their efforts! See a video story here. The full written story can be accessed from the South Florida Times by clicking the article below.
EdClick can facilitate your school's documentation efforts! Posted at 8:27 PM Keywords: EdClick , Discipline , Parent Communication , Documentation , Bullying , Lawsuit 1 Comments |
