C'mon, Really!? Can you. . .

really make my job any harder that what it is? Again, for the fourth time this school year, the cops were at the school. This time I did not call them. A parent called the cops before ever knowing what happened to his kid. A 6th grader comes into the front office while I was there to see the nurse. The nurse says, "We've got a biter". I was in a little shock. I looked at the boy's arm and saw a huge bruise. He said that a girl in his class bit him on the arm at lunch. It has been about 30 minutes since the event at lunch even happened. He waited that long to say anything because he didn't notice the bruise until it started hurting. As I am walking back to my office I see a teacher with the student who did the biting. As they are sitting in my office I am getting their statements and asking questions I am wondering why the kid didn't tell any of the adults in the room what had happened. Kids would rather not tell anyone until they realize their parents are going to ask questions about it. The boy asked if he could call his dad and I told him he could. I should have told him no and that I would call his dad, but after everything that was going on that day I was just trying to figure things out and understand what was going on. Before dad even got to the school, he was on the phone with the PD. I didn't find this out until after talking to the girl's mom about the incident. I had to get the little girl and send her to the office to wait until her mom got there and until the police talked to her. After talking to the policeman and telling him about the camera footage he asked to see the footage. I showed him the footage and he counted about 14 or 15 attempts by this little girl to write on the boys face with the pen. Even though the boy was fighting against her to get her to stop she continued and the pen landed a couple of times on his head and around his ear. At one point the boy is able to grab her arm and then she bites him. The officer then informed me that the parents have a good case against the girl if they want to take it to court and it would be a class D misdemeanor. The mom gets to the school and sees the officer and asks what he is doing there. I escort her to my office and let her know what is happening. The officer then takes the girl and her mom into a another room and tells the girl that what she did she can go to juvi for. He then tells her the horrors of juvi. He informs her that if the boy or his family wants to press charges that he will place his handcuffs on her wrists and take her straight to juvi. By this time the girl is just bawling and can't control herself and mom is just beside herself. The boy's parents want to talk to the mom and hash everything out. With the officer present the parents talk to one another and come to an agreement that the boy will not press charges but the girl's family is responsible for the medical bills arising out of this. The boy had a bruise on his arm, there was no blood, no breakage of skin, no damage to anywhere else on his body. I think if the mom of the boy was not there the dad would have called an ambulance, gone to the ER and had the girl's family pay out the ears for this little incident. I have had a run in with the dad before and he is just so unreasonable and will look for any way possible to say that everyone else is out to screw his perfect kid's life. Anyway, ridiculousness. I apologized to the dad for not calling him myself and admitted to my mistake. We all make mistakes and I will admit when I have made a mistake. I think the little girl learned her lesson. I honestly thought she was going to pee her pants during all of this. The officer was good and scared her straight.

I just wish we had a security professional on this campus during the school day until teachers leave. Someone that can work 8am to 6pm. My principal is so big on keeping everyone safe right now that he is upping the amount of duties that teachers are having to do and adding more stress to them that if we had an officer on campus should be taken care of by him. It would also be nice to have him in situations like this so that the PD does not have to get involved. The officer could take care of it. It would have also been nice to have him around with the locker fire. As hard as I try to tell the rest of the admin that we need these things the less they listen to me. I have good ideas and I use the ideas and give credit to those who give me the ideas, but I am rarely listened to. Whatever, I guess that happens when your bosses are Islamic men. I have to get back to some work. Peace!