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On 5/20/14, Andrew wrote:
> To make a long story short, one of my grades went away on a
> class trip. One of the students did not go on the trip. Th
> is particular student did not come to school that day. Whil
> e on the trip, two separate students texted her, one telling
> her that lots of people were saying that she( the girl not
> on the trip) was saying bad things about the girl doing the
> texting, and another saying that nobody liked her, that she
> was two faced. This upset the girl who came in with her mot
> her to complain. I took down the information and decided to
> put a stop to this. I called both numbers that were textin
> g the girl. I left a simple message not to text the other s
> tudent again as it could be considered bullying. I spoke wi
> th the second student and said the same thing. I realize th
> at a Principal should not be calling a student's cell phone,
> but the student was very upset and I made a decision to put
> a stop to it. Was I wrong to do this? Should I have follo
> wed policy and not called? I feared the student was startin
> g to get more upset as she had us conduct a bully investigat
> ion the previous week. I welcome any input as I can acknowl
> edge I broke policy, but felt I was justified in doing so.

You have a policy in your school which prevents calling a
student on the phone? I could see that if it was your
personal phone to student's phone...but I will assume that
you were at school, used a school phone, and it sure seemed
like it was school business as bullied student was at school
and bullying students were on a school trip.

What the he11 did policy dictate; do nothing?

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