These are our stories, or at least some of them. They provide anecdotal evidence to the numbers available on our Research page. Put yourself into the parent’s shoes, into the kid’s shoes. Can you afford a lawyer to defend your child? Do you think your child is capable of an action that would put them into an alternative school for 60 days? If you answered no, then consider if we asked the below parents a year ago these questions and wonder what their answers would be.
For every story below, we have about 2 or 3 parents with stories that have decided to not go public. There are stories that range from kids buying laser pointers in a school store on campus who would then get written up for Level III offenses moments later. We have stories of children being molested while administrators did nothing. We have stories about children defending themselves against a bully attack and they are the ones given a ticket by KISD Police, then being sent to A-school for the remainder of the semester. It takes a lot of guts to tell your story to the public. Even if you do so anonymously, people out there know it’s your story.
If you would like to contact us about problems you are having, even if you are not in KISD, please let us know.
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Many parents have on-going legal engagements that their lawyers have asked them not to discuss the merits of their cases. We have several that are just plain scared of reprisals from their school’s administrators and teachers. Most still believe that they are the only ones out there that this has happened to and feel ashamed and just want to put it behind them. We don’t blame them for staying behind the scenes. But these stories, these cases are not isolated to a few schools: they are spread out across the spectrum of KISD and our state.
We urge you to come forward, to tell your stories – even if you don’t want to go public. We need to know. There were 3,098 disciplinary placements last year – who knows what the count is this year – we won’t know until sometime near Christmas 2004. But among all of those disciplinary placements last year and the ones this year, we are fairly confident in concluding that at least 75% were either falsely accused or over punished. When examining all of the numbers from other school districts, we can’t fail but to come to that conclusion.
Please note: The stories represented on this website are parents telling their side of a story. As such, we allow any school district to respond and we will post their responses on our website without bias or comment.
