The Oklahoma City Public Schools Code of Conduct has a strict anti-bullying policy. My child has been bullied. Those children are being punished. This is good. I am thankful for that portion of the policy.
However, during the course of being bullied, she responded, as I think many of us might, by counter-threatening those students. I won't get into what she said, but the school then classified her reaction as "making threats", which is also a violation of the Code. As such, she has been suspended from school for two days.
Needless to say I am LIVID. There is an official appeals process, which I am about to undertake. More to come I'm sure.
Update
After written and verbal appeals, we were denied, and Shelby had to server her two-day suspension. I am not happy about this in the least, but we were able to get them to move the 2-days to the last two days of the school year, meaning she didn't have to miss any actual learning, which I am pleased about.
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