Amarillo parent speaking out after daughter suspended from Austin Middle School
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- Опубликовано: 12 май 2024
- A recent social media post regarding a local middle school and a student being suspended has caught the attention of parents around Amarillo.
Don't file a grievance, file a lawsuit against the School District! Put them in their place! This is why so many parents are starting to homeschool their children!
Lmao. Sue for what ? Money ?
@@willymaykit1482 yes, suspensions effect college picks. He should sue them.
@@user-ht3sg4sd9j whatever it takes to ruin someones entire life huh ? Makes you feel powerful ?
@@willymaykit1482 yeah because they dont know the difference between being high and having alleriges
@@mattschehr163 That's a great reason to sue ! Any lawyer would kick you out of his office with a ridiculous claim like that. You win the Internet award today. Congratulations 👏
it's ridiculous that schools think they are above the law.
They suspended her over assumptions but do nothing when a child is being bullied .
...they think, therefore, they are.
Or rather, even above their own rules!
They think that because they frequently are. They've gotten away with so much already.
Unlike police, the school can be sued directly and they can lose a lot. Can you imagine the school explaining to hundred parents that they can to cancel music, art, auto shop, and free lunch program because one idiot on the staff didn't know the difference between allergies and drug abuses?
Sounds like Defamation to me!
So...they will severely punish a child because they suspect substance abuse yet allow kids to be bullied? Sometimes to death?? 🤨
Bullied by teachers.
Nothing was ever done by school staff to help me when I was being bullied many moons ago. I guess nothing has changed.
@@user-yz9yg4yx1kI was bullied by a math teacher. I was accused of cheating. This was false.
Nothing was done to help me when I was bullied.
@@carollewis3912I didn't say anything to my parents about me getting picked on by a bully, because I didn't want to change JR. High.
I had a real A**H0LE of a math teacher in high school who kept accusing me of being high in class. The reality was A) I was wearing contacts that irritated my eyes and B) his teaching style was incredibly uninspiring and he treated people like dummies if they didn't understand his lessons right away. I didn't touch any drugs until after I graduated high school, but he just continued to get more and more vindictive. On a positive note, I'm a teacher now and I use this guy as an example of how not to treat my students.
Man that’s a total 180 from a few of the teachers I had in high school. I still remember my chemistry teacher had a few plants growing in the closet of the classroom. It was hilarious because me and my best friend had to sneak them out and into the woods behind the school when the county police came to do a drug sweep/lockdown. Similar stuff happened around there a lot, it was out in the countryside and a lot of that stuff was being grown everywhere at the time. Before meth and meth labs started ravaging the rural areas.
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Same. My grandma smoked like a chimney and refused to roll down the windows in the car. The same teacher gave me detention for "smoking" every day, which snowballed into Saturday school and suspension. I didn't have a parent like this dad to advocate for me.
She's my example of what not to do, too. Edited for typo.
Guilty until proven innocent - just like the system is supposed to work, right?
That's exactly how schools work. It applies to teachers too, unless they're "IN" with the union. Substitute teachers are fired on a whim with no recourse, no due-process, nothing.
@@toomanyhobbies2011 almost sounds un-American...
& still guilty after proven innocent
Guilty even after being proven innocent.
The school administrators will NEVER admit to making a mistake!
Taking their cues from the IRS.
The dad called the school bullies, I mean "staff", on their game by bringing a drug test kit that she then passed. They panicked like all bullies called out as is evidenced by the fact that they had to call him back multiple times to keep themselves from digging even deeper holes until she finally got to test. Many school bullies never leave, they just get jobs there and continue.
The school can buy its own drug tests.
The adults that control the school , instead of serving are the bullies.......
Exactly
File a Grievance ? File a Lawsuit !
The father should sue the administrators personally for defamation of character. They need to be fired.
All facility needs to take drug tests. Defamation.
I know/seen SO many teachers use drugs people would be surprised.
lol didn’t even think about that imagine how many teachers on shi
Another of teachers need prescription drugs to do their jobs. What I don't understand is why NO ONE suggests that the SCHOOL ADMINISTRATION, who created this nightmare, don't undergo nandatory 1) drug testing and 2) drug use education.
@@Esther-lm6pmEsther, did you ever have an English teacher?? 👩🏽🏫
@@bkitteh6295 Absent probable cause, mandatory drug testing is a constitutional violation. Illegal search.
I had horrible allergies growing up. The chlorine from our pool made my eyes extremely red.I was never accused of getting high. This was in the 80s. I think our society has lost their minds these days. The teachers at that school sound extremely ignorant. I hope that girls parents teach that school a lesson.
More like they've lost decentcy and discretion. Administrators are so quick to jump to conclusions that they make mountains out of molehills. Surprised they didn't try to link her red eyes to parental abuse.
Years ago my son was standing in line at middle school waiting to get lunch. Another child with mental disability came up behind my son and started punching my so in the back. My son grabbed and held the kid until a teacher came. My son was suspended for fighting. Dozens of kids told the teachers all my son did was get him in a bear hug and held him. 🤷🏻🤷🏻🤷🏻🤷🏻🤷🏻🤷🏻🤷🏻🤷🏻🤷🏻🤷🏻🤷🏻🤷🏻
So horrible the boy clearly was defending himself WOW
No good deed goes unpunished.
@@sdilluminatigrandfounder3807 Walk away, and continue to get beaten? IMHO, he would have been justified in laying the kid out.. clear self-defense.
@@sdilluminatigrandfounder3807 What right? SELF DEFENSE That's what right. Stand your ground, THAT'S what right! ANTI BULLYING LAWS THAT'S WHAT RIGHT! People who think walking away ends the confrontation have never been on the bad side of being bullied. STFU
You should of sued the school or had a lawyer send them an email or letter
Had severe allergies in school and was accused of the same thing by principal, was under Dr prescribed antihistamine . Fast forward 25 years later went through 4 years of allergies injections, now I m 67
Same, they thought I smoked in middle school and used steroids in high school. All lies and they reluctantly apologized🤨
Those allergy shots are pretty amazing. I also had them for years. Before that it was non stop hayfever as soon as the seasons arrived
Recently in Dec 2023 a girl named Maya Kawolski was awarded $237 million because both the ER doctor and the child services agent made immediate assumptions that the mother was abusing her. The girl had an ongoing medical issue that they ER doctor didn't believe she had it. Well, they later found the smoking gun. It wasn't just one case, it was a full on class action lawsuit against this doctor. This whole ordeal led to her mother taking her own life. Sometimes professionals with children are so arrogant, they don't stop think they could be wrong on occasion.
Unreal, seems like unless you can prove a student is high, you don't send them home. Certainly, not just for puffy eyes and certainly not after showing a clean over-the-counter drug test with a student behaving normally. We don't send students home simply on suspicion in my district.
To me, this already went too far, after her father gave an explanation for her red & puffy eyes. But bullies be bullying, it’s just extra when adults attack kids.
OMG, get an attorney. No school should be testing a minor for drugs!
They do all the time in many school systems
The problem is she is still suspended not if they are tested
Those tests from the pharmacy may not be 100% but it’s still pretty close. They were being difficult on purpose
Exactly. They knew they effed up and doubled down.
Guilty until proven innocent.
Sue for billions...
lol. A pipe dream.
The problem is the administrators ego wouldn’t allow him or herself to be proven wrong regardless of how many clean tests. Once it was discovered they were wrong they immediately went into ego defending mode and tried standing on solid ground which didn’t exist. Ultimately what this administrator has clearly shown is that he or she is not capable of doing the job and should be fired, bottom line. I agree with the ones below that say this should result in a lawsuit only settling with the firing of this incompetent individual along with a public apology to the student and her parents. And I guess it should also translate to remedial training for the entire school district staff on how to not let something so stupid happen again in the future. But in the world we live in that probably makes too much sense.
When I was in middle school,I had a migraine when I woke up one morning, I have always had a few per month, I got to school, the gym teacher thought I was stoned because my eyes were puffy and red,I was sent to the nurses office, searched, grilled about what I had taken or smoked, they thought I was on drugs,this went on for about an hour, even though I had explained what was going on,I also asked for them to call my parents, they refused, they suspended me for 2 days with zero proof, my father complained to high heaven, the principal said," take it to the school board ",turns out I was not the only student that was targeted by this teacher and principal,they had preconceived notions about kids due to their last names and siblings that came before, small town and all,,years later they were both reassigned due to their actions towards other students...
It would be nice if this kind of behavior was not allowed anymore.
Marijuana does not cause sneezing, that School Administration just wanted to cause trouble
Sue the school where it hurts the money! These administration will not change unless there is pain
The money only hurts the students.
@@KatieBellinothe students are being hurt now by unqualified teachers. Sue sue sue!!!
@@KatieBellino that not true it hurts the super intention
@@mattschehr163 Wrong. Ultimately, the kids' programs get cut and the superintendent will continue to make his paycheck.
So technically you would just be suing yourself and other taxpayers.
Clearly this district did not want the best outcome for the student. Cleared by a drug test was more than enough to stop action against a student. Also, how can an allergy become a basis for suspension. The district needs to change policies and the school officials involved need to have this violation of rights entered into their records.
A student does not have to be legally and intoxicated to be deemed under the influence by the teachers or administration? So anyone can say anything at any time? They said they wanted input from the parents and they called him four times. If that’s not input then what is?
School practicing medicine without a license, are they... if ONLY there was settled case-law on that topic somewhere... ;)
the folks who are responsible should
1) apologize to her in front of the whole school.
2) wear sandwich boards in front of school, relating the silliness of their uniformed, jump to conclusions, without proof, idiocy
one month should do it.
Show the school as much mercy as they showed his daughter. Sue them!!!
Unbelievable! How dare they. A middle school child should never have to deal with something like this. Homeschool and sue!
Common sense has been flushed down the ol turlit! (Thanks Archie Bunker). I honestly would think that the school nurse would have allergy meds listed on her records. The ol Guilty before Innocent got lost in the school’s BS. No real care about the child’s health! How dare the jump to conclusions! Sue their pants off!
These schools throughout our country need to step up. She took a drug test and passed it. It’s allergy season. This is not the only school that I seen lately in the news. I can’t remember where it was but a 10 year old commits suicide because of the bullying and gets beat up in the bathroom and the school doesn’t do anything about it. Parents say they told the school about it but they deny it.
the pricipal needs to be taught a lesson! Like losing the job and stripped of ever being one in all 50 states
It doesn't require financial compensation but seeing the individual responsible for this lack of professional judgement held accountable with their own suspension along with a reprimand forever included in their work history perhaps issued by the school board of their community.
This happened to me decades ago. It absolutely must be financially compensated.
Sue the school for defamation and false accusations. Tell them that everyone involved is to be terminated or you will be demanding $25 million. See how fast they backpedal and apologize then.
My kid was suspended her senior year for "smelling" like weed. There was nothing on her and she wasnt high. Seemed unfair.
This is really BS. At Crockett the student bathrooms are closed because somehow they can’t figure out who is smoking and vaping in the bathrooms, but this girl has red eyes and is suspended?
Public school principals are idiots. When I was in high school I would frequently get pulled into the admin office for suspicion of being on drugs simply because I had very large pupils (naturally) when I was 100% not on drugs and not exhibiting any unusual behavior. Although they never actually suspended me or anything, it was definitely harassment.
If only they paid that much attention to bullying.
They do. They punish the victim every time.
If a school staff can't tell the difference between one being high and allergies cold or something then they don't need to be there. There's a huge difference sue them
So, the district wants to work with everyone involved, yet choose to ignore any information about a student, especially when it comes from that student's parents. Utter poppycock.
She was PUBLICALLY humiliated and I promise EVERY student thinks they know WHY she was sent home, and NOW the Skrul Bored "can't comment on the grounds of privacy" when it suits THEM! I'd comment in Federal District Court to the bastards...
That last statement by the school district is utter bull. That's _clearly_ not what happened. I think a lawyer should be consulted.
Homeschooling is definitely the best education for your child. It is all encompassing.
get the local media to cover this, papers television and radio. . name names and demand public apologies from all the accusers. .if they won't apologize sue them to their last penny, and publicize it all. .if you can't teach these so-called educators you can warn their replacements.
maybe it's the administration that needs to take the drug tests
When my siblings went to school they had corporal punishment, had they didn't tolerate bullies. The schools back then also had school nurses who would call parents if their child got hurt or sick, it is a real shame and a disgrace the way that schools are being run now days.
This is an ADA violation! Sue!
Sue for defamation of character this will do serious harm to her future! There are jobs she will now never have access to, education opportunities are diminished.
Sue their asses off.
Some people just hate being wrong. Also this was probably racism, i remember when I was in high school teachers and school nurses thought i was high because of pink eye once also! This is discrimination!
Don't sue the school, sue the individuals who did this, in their individual capacities. This way, the individuals pay for their malfeasance, not the taxpayers or the other kids (who will lose access to programs if the school district has to pay).
I think they're like cops. Immunity
The district hired them, they can pay. Maybe if there are enough law suits against the district, they will hire more qualified people.
It's a sad in America when school Personnel are more interested in looking into drug potential than educational potential js🤔🙄🙄🤔
In my day you filled out a form that has question about any medical items the school should be notified in advance. If her allergies as bad enough to have red eyes, this is not her first attack.
Weed is the only reason I even finished high school. It kept me focused and equalized.
Same thing happened to me- I was laughing at something then the teacher had me get picked up by security because my eyes were also red. I remember the security guard sympathizing with me saying his son had a similar problem. :/
Filing a lawsuit wont help! Go after their pocketbook! Corruption at its finest!
Pocketbook 💀
That a school has such exact guidelines is depressing. Is this normal in the US???
Unfortunately that isn't even the worst.
I got sent home for having "candy" in my mouth, i had an abscessed tooth.
Well if you didnt eat so much candy that wouldnt have happened
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Only someone that is familiar with getting high or drunk would be able to recognize it, no? Wonder who made this call, best have them tested.
I just saw the story in TikTok and I came here, the fact that they dismissed the first drug test kind of comes off like they were looking for a reason to suspend her, and then, as you watch the original video of the meeting with the principal, they’re trying so hard to cover their own asses, it astounds me that when it comes down to it people just can’t admit that they’re wrong, and their system is flawed
These adults need to get it together. They act more like teenagers and not like adults.
Agree 💯
WTH. Is this the first time they have encountered anyone with allergies? Somehow I find that hard to believe.
So basically, if you are non-contagiouly I'll or have allergies, you're not allowed to school? Do they have an at home program for those temporarily and/or permanently disabled? Or are we going back to discrimination against disabled persons?
I had a nun in high school who called me into the office to "question" me about an upper class female who was "missing". She explained "several students saw you driving her in your car, you were seen smoking marijuana with her in your car". I did not know this girl, she had never been in my car, and i did not smoke cigarettes much less marijuana. I told the nun this. When i told my father about this he asked some questions. Found out later he called his attorney who sent a letter to the school. The nun pulled me aside at a basketvall game after school hours to tell me to tell my dad she was "sorry". I have hated the Catholic Church ever since. That woman never apologized to me! 6 years later when my only sister did not get into NHS she blamed ME, because the nun used to call her by my name, not hers.
I went to a high school that accused me of doin drugs. I wuz talkin to some kids and we wuz havin a conversation bout flu shots and the kids in my class said that they hated needles and I said that I wuz used to the shots. Then some fucker told admin that I wuz using drugs. So the nurse called me into the office and checked my arms for drug marks. They found nothin obviously. Schools act so damn entitled treatin kids however they want. Fuckin sick.
This country is really poorly educated on drugs. Even if she was high, really, throwing her into an alt school? Its not like she was suspected of using meth. I had classmates who smoked pot off campus, and they still finished high school without issue. Its just insane that not only do they not know what being high actually looks like, but that they were gonna throw her out for good over it.
Along with the stress of a public false accusation, her STAR test was sabotaged. No idea how the inept school can make this right, but at the very least they need school-wide retraining, a public admission that they were wrong, and an apology.
Get a an attorney. Sue the School District and get her college education paid.
Public School Administrators can be vindictive, and from my experience they can and do hold a grudge. They will ruin your child’s academic career capriciously. School Resource Officers might even assist them.
Tread lightly. But if you decide to pursue legal action, put your child in a private school first, or home school.
Accountability. Hold the district accountable.
What inept staff! They need to file a lawsuit instead!!
Administrators who's first instinct is to accuse without facts are there to harm children.
So sad this is what happens when we are to slow to listen but to quick to act😢 how sad
Fun fact: I was high nearly every day during both my junior and senior years, but my high school never suspended me.
Ridiculous. I suffered from seasonal allergies starting in Grade 1 and would always have hayfever and swollen, red, itchy eyes from spring through fall. Nobody ever accused me of drinking or using drugs, though a few students did, especially in high school.
But they allow bullying to go on!
Sue (so) the school, practicing medicine without a licence!
*The **_ONLY_** way I made it through High School **_WAS_** ANTIHISTAMINES! Allergic responses are NO FUN, and the usual treatments, i.e. "antihistamines," can sometimes be worse than the allergic responses.*
In College I drug myself through nearly the 2nd semester of Chemistry (my 2nd try at it before realizing that the antihistamine I was taking was what was TOTALLY MESSING UP MY BRAIN! After waiting a FULL YEAR to repeat that class, I came back to the same College, same class, AND THE SAME INSTRUCTOR, _BUT_ NO ANTIHISTAMINES that time. When I got to the Final Exam, I not only received 100% on the entire Exam, but on the _FINAL QUESTION_ --- I CORRECTED THE TEACHER'S METHOD OF CALCULATING THE ANSWER. *THUS, I WAS RIGHT, & **_HE WAS_** WRONG!*
When I was in high school, I was under weight (85 lbs) with low blood pressure from heart defects from birth. Because of this, I was often woozy and foggy brained. I could've totally been labeled as drunk.
It's weird how often schools are trying to pin medical issues as reason for kicking out kids, rather than trying to work with them to help the situation.
Excellent example of incompetent people being “in charge” of our kids!
Whens the court case start?
Why do they care if she’s high as long as she’s following directions in school?
Yeah, I would have told the principal that NO ACTION WILL BE TAKEN AGAINST MY child WITHOUT any concrete proof. If he still insisted on punishment without proof, I would have given the school board that they had a week to remove that administrator from the school board or I would personally do it myself. I already said that to a principal in regards to a teacher when I had to go into the school for an emergency "parent" teacher conference in regards to a situation with my nephew when the teacher saw me, explained the problem, and then threw some personal digs at me because she wanted to show who had the bigger acorns, yes, I looked a little unkempt as I was woken up by my mother to go deal with it because she couldn't drive, and was rather ill, so asked me to go pick him up, as That's all she thought I needed to do, so looked past the teacher, and told the secretary, nicely, "Please get the principal now." To which the teacher told me I can't speak to the principal, I needed to get out of her school and go back to my "drug den", to which I turned once again to the secretary and repeatedly the request, very loud. The secretary I think tried to call the principal, as she just pushed the intercom button, but, he had already heard the yell, and was running out his door by the last syllable. The teacher was demanding the staff to forget the principal, and call the police instead, but the principal was already out, saw me, recognized me, and, shortly after I recognized him. He was a regular customer at the restaurant I worked at. He and his family came in every Sunday after church, and 8 out of 10 times ended up at my table. When he asked what I was doing there, I told him the situation, what she told me my nephew did, and that I would deal with it, but, then went onto what personal digs the teacher said to me, including the "drug den" comment, the teacher cuts in and tells me to shut up and tells the secretary to call the police, and, the principal threatened to fire the first person that did call him. The secretary, and the poor lady sitting in the bench in the office, who I'm assuming had an appointment to meat with someone in the office, backed up what I said, then I gave him the "you have a week to get rid of her or I will" edict. Apparently, she lost her teacher license, and was fired, and someone in the district office did too, as she had crossed a few lines and the person in the office was covering up a lot of her misdoings. Did have a talk with my nephew, who after what was said by the teacher but before the storm, I gave him my keys and told him to wait in the car, to which he did with a disappointed look on his face. He and his cousin, my niece, one of the things they love the most was to be there when someone stepped over the line with me, and watch me give the transgressor the tongue lashing of all tongue lashings. He was disappointed he didn't get to watch, but, since this was at a school, and I was trying to pretend at having a modicum of propriety, I sent him outside. And, I grounded him from his video games for the rest of the week, which was four days. For a fifth grader that lived on the SNES and the Sega Genesis, that's a lifetime. My mother always had me deal with his discipline because I actually understood him, and explain why he was getting disciplined, and, she would wanted to keep my dad out of the discipline because he would make the grounding, lecture for 90 minutes, starting the whole lecture over and repeating it then start increasing the grounding for an extra week each time one would tune out, or appear to until the person he was lecturing was grounded for six months. Man, it's hard to believe that little fifth grader is now 40. Sorry for the word vomit. This did get away from me.
Yeah school districts are turning to shit. We school from home now. We don't do full homeschool but I teach my children and have online classes as awell. It's an adjustment but the pro's list is so much longer than the con's.
If other parents are coming forward with similar situations with their kids that school is just opening its self to major lawsuits.
"At the time" information changes and they should react to that as quickly as they reacted to the original charge. Why don't they have their own tests that they would trust? Five minutes to expel someone weeks to straighten out the mess that they caused.
2:48 that last statement to me just screams “we know you’re not under the influence but we will still punish you like you are”
Shoot, that was not near as bad as what they accused my son of back in the 90s - I received a call from the school (Palo Duro, Amarillo TX) telling me that I needed to meet with the Principal and Laison Officer that morning. I inquired as to what the issue was and was told that my child had been accused of beating up a fellow student the day before and that they had "multiple witnesses". "Really", I replied a bit surprised and asked when it was supposed to have happened.
The Principal told me the time and I replied, "That would be impossible". Now it was the Principal's turn to sound surprised. I then explained that he needed to check the call records from the day before as I had called my son in sick, furthermore because he was not feeling well (and I did not want to leave him alone to his own devices) I took him to work with me.
After relaying all this information to the Principal I added that I could call the store and ask them to pull their security tapes. He declined and the matter was dropped, at least on our end.
Oh, the store I was servicing that day was in Borger. My son may have been alone all of 15 - 20 minutes during the time frame I was given by the Principal and now it is a running joke between my son and me that I gave birth to the FLASH ... because he would have had to run all the way back to Palo Duro, assault the alleged victim and make it back to Borger in a FLASH (no my son was not on the track and field team).
Hire a lawyer and sue them!
They thought I was ‘high’ when I was sober, yet didn’t seem to notice when I was blasted out of my skull. A friend & I once met up with two teachers, & the principal, outside our school, & the conversation turned to the subject of drug abuse. They claimed to always be able to “tell”, & they unanimously thought I might be “high”, but my friend was sober (in reality, they had it completely backwards) this trend continued my years at this school, they never busted me, because I never had any drugs (at least not when they suspected me,) I always thought “the war on drugs” was misguided stupidity….
Sue the school.
What? They hopped to conclusions because she had allergies and “looked high?” So they’ll expel kids with styes/eye infections too? Very ridiculous. Good on this father for handling it well.
Where is her doctor? When people ask (I have been responding like this since I was a teen just to mess with them) my response is "is it the whole eye red or just one side? Oh, that is allergies if I smoked all the eye would be red." Their brains usually got stuck at that point.
Seriously? They couldn’t tell that she WASN’T high? What the heck?
Grievance? He needs to sue. They are assuming guilt even after she was proven innocent.
If red eyes are the only indication that you are high from marijuana, I've apparently been smoking it for 24 years without knowing it. Very ridiculous!
My school banned my denture glue to keep my partial in. When the school later asked who knocked out my teeth after lunch, I told them I wear a partial denture and they tried to confiscate that, too.
I had allergies too. I also took Benadryl. I'm glad I wasn't accused of being drunk and/or high.
My doctor drugged tested me to get drugs, yeah. The results were back in like five minutes and I got my RX for drugs.