Lean Production: Inside the war on public education

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78. I'm not going to go back over why I'm not fighting to get the school to do their job.

One doesn't 'make' the school do anything. Perhaps you should read through the thread. If one thing is made abundantly clear; it is that us 'outsiders' don't know anything about educating young people, and we just need to listen to the professional educators.

She is home with me because she is safe at home with me. I could have sent her Monday morning, but I finally got her bruises healed up. Before we send her back we want to know what went wrong. Why an administrator from the school called and insisted that we come get her; after the school principal sat in the meeting (just a few days earlier) when we went over the behavioral intervention plan with the consultant. We want to know: what were the possible triggers that set her off? Who was with her? What this assistant principal was doing uninformed and in such close proximity to her; when we were assured that it wouldn't happen again (almost exactly the same thing happened last year with a different assistant principal).

If you have some recommendation for 'making' school personnel take a meeting so these issues can be discussed and resolved; I'm all ears.

Unfortunately, what I hear you saying is that my daughter isn't getting a 'free and appropriate public education' because we aren't fighting hard enough.

In other words - it's the parents fault.

I'm impressed by your excellent credentials for guiding students toward a possible future career in engineering, but blaming the parents for the school districts inability to do their job doesn't demonstrate very good troubleshooting skills. Sometimes there are just bad school districts.

As far as the 'bad engineering' comment: I detailed my personal experience because that's what was under attack. Gathering empirical data to refute a statement about my personal experience is completely unnecessary. If there is some specific statement made that I should have supported with research (which wouldn't surprise me since I'm working on an iPhone so I can always be within a few feet of my daughter); point it out, and I'll research it. Or if you believe that I've made a false assertion post a link.

If I'm wrong; I'm wrong, I have no problem with admitting I'm wrong. Unfair personal attacks I get a little cranky about.