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On 2/08/15, Concerned wrote:
> In this particular high school, the school staff works
together
> in teams to understand the emotional needs of students and to
> educate them as to acceptable conduct in classrooms,
hallways,
> the gym, the cafeteria, the library, etc. There is absolutely
> NO reason for any of the administrators to
speak
> in such a fashion to any student, regardless of what the
student
> had said. Doing so is equivalent to pedagogical ignorance and
> might even be construed as a form of verbal abuse.
>
> The deans were gathering together as a disciplinary group in
> order to correct the student's misbehavior. However, the
> disciplinary issue relating to this particular student became
> considerably worse due to the AP's inappropriate verbal
response
> and general mismanagement of the entire situation.

A good "team" has a plan and procedures. They coordinate. The
AP asking to speak to the student during the deans' or dean's
disciplining sounds like he was interfering and not adhering to
established procedures. Exactly what IS the procedure? You
should be able to list the steps. If you can't, then it doesn't
sound organized. And four admins addressing a student's
misbehavior sounds like overkill. No wonder the students are
frustrated.

If you believe the AP acted inappropriately, you should write a
formal complaint to his superior. Since you have posted on a
public forum, my response to your post is that you are focusing
on the wrong thing - you should be focusing on the student's
classroom behavior. The AP did not make the classroom
behavior worse.

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