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It matters because I was asking for advice. I also felt that a
distressed student could fall into HIB Laws. Your post was
negative and useless. Please don't offer anything if you have
nothing to offer. Have a nice day!

On 5/20/14, Skeptic wrote:
> On 5/20/14, Andrew wrote:
>
> How does it matter what we think? But since you asked,
> there was no emergency at hand that warranted breaking
> school policy.
>
> You don't sound or write like a Principal.
>
>
> 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.

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