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Submitted by mommadukes2015 on Wed, 07/27/2016 - 9:31am

SO this is a little off topic. Yesterday my step-son came home with a paper that he used as scrap paper to draw on the back of. It was sitting on my counter face down and I noticed the writing-a lot of writing in adult-like hand. Curious I picked it up and read it.

It was behavioral notes on another student that graphically detailed threats, racial slurs and other inappropriate behavior.

I calmly but assertively explained what was on the piece of paper and the teacher's response was "Well I don't know what you want me to do about it." What do I want you to do about it? I want you to double check your scrap bin to make sure that things like this don't find their way into a student's hands. How is he supposed to feel safe if he has access to threats another student is making? How do I explain to him that the N word is never ever ever to cross his lips-let alone why? HOW ABOUT YOU APOLOGIZE? I understand that cleaning happens during the summer-but come on. This is failure on a number of levels to ensure that private student information is kept that way and that it does not fall into little, impressionable hands.

Sorry. The fact that her first reaction was not to apologize profusely and offer to ensure that this doesn't happen again really made my blood boil. This is all secondary to him coming home on Monday with a pound worth of paperwork-lesson plans, blank work packets, another student's work from December, his work from December-January-his backpack is not your recycling bin. I cannot wait for him to transfer over to the middle school, hopefully they will be much better. 3 more weeks.....

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Submitted by kathc on Wed, 07/27/2016 - 10:48am

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^THIS^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

If there was anything identifying the student those notes were about, I'd ask that their parents be brought in and informed of this as well. That's ridiculous!

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Submitted by mommadukes2015 on Wed, 07/27/2016 - 12:54pm

He's at an outsourced school-he's not in-district because he's diagnosed with Autism with some behavioral concerns (not like this-he just complains and "Eyores" but he's behind grade level-we're hoping to have him caught up and integrated by HS). So when SO calls tomorrow I'm going to have him find out the chain of command.

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Submitted by mommadukes2015 on Wed, 07/27/2016 - 9:43am

I plan on discussing it tonight with his father. He can call the school in the morning and set up a meeting-maybe him being upset about it will hold more weight than my being upset about it. I texted BM to let her know and her only response was to ask if I called someone. Yes.Of course I called someone. I guess I was crazy to think she might want to give them a call too given the fact that it's her son. I forgot "coparenting" in her world means that I play mom and she doesn't have to be bothered.

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Submitted by mommadukes2015 on Wed, 07/27/2016 - 12:51pm

I don't think he did read it. But the fact that it details threats of knives being brought to school, racial slurs and what have you-it just bothers me it was in his possession. He's also very interested in the goings on of anything political, the POTUS, BLM, Marriage Equality (we have mixed race and gay family members so he's very interested to make sure they're safe and is always asking what all those things mean for them) so if he were to see the N word it would upset him tremendously-not to mention if one of my younger bi-racial family members were to see something like that just sitting in my home.

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Submitted by ESMOD on Wed, 07/27/2016 - 11:48am

The other student's parents need to know their private information was compromised. Do you know them? or can you find them. Just in case the school brushes you off like the teacher did.

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Submitted by mommadukes2015 on Wed, 07/27/2016 - 12:12pm

I don't know them. I do know the child's first name and his last initial. If I could find where I stowed the programs for the concert/award ceremony I could probably figure it out with relative ease.

I work with incredibly private HIPPA Sensitive information. That's what is killing me about all of this. Like how are you not appalled by the fact that this was sent home with another student?

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Submitted by mommadukes2015 on Wed, 07/27/2016 - 12:45pm

Oh we do, believe me we do. That's why I'm flabbergasted at the response I received. I feel like it needs to be reported-but I don't know to whom besides the principal.

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Submitted by mommadukes2015 on Wed, 07/27/2016 - 2:36pm

The home district does. I'll have to look into who governs the area BOCES. I don't think there's much the home district's school board will be able to do because it's not their school-it's an otherwise funded type of outsource.

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Submitted by mommadukes2015 on Wed, 07/27/2016 - 12:47pm

I'm going to make sure he does. Not only is it a privacy violation but it's a huge huge huge deal to me that something of this caliber was in my SS's possession. Luckily enough I don't think he read it-the fact that he could have makes me very upset.