This story will make you angry, but I’m sure you’ll be happy with how things turned out. A girl in school takes up for herself and doesn’t let being picked on bother her…and when the mom shows up, she perfectly defends her daughter’s acts! Women shouldn’t have to deal with these things, so why let kids going through them? As an ER nurse, I know that we should leave our phones in our lockers and not carry them around with us.
A call comes into the hospital’s front desk on a line just for me. “Hello, [Teacher] from [School].” There was an event regarding [Daughter]. Please come in. Me: “Is she hurt or sick?” Could it wait until the end of my shift in two hours?” The daughter hit another kid with her phone. We’ve been calling you for 45 minutes now. It’s really a big deal.” When I get to school, I’m led to the principal’s office.
I see my daughter, her parent, a boy with blood on his nose and face, the director, and a male teacher. “Mrs. [Your Name], how nice of you to finally join us!” “Yeah, the ER gets busy.” I just finished giving over 40 stitches to a seven-year-old boy whose mother beat him with a metal ladle. After that, I had to deal with the cops about the situation. I’m sorry for the trouble.”
He tells me what happened after I’ve seen him try not to look embarrassed. My daughter punched the boy in the face twice after he broke her bra. At first, I thought they were mad at my daughter more than the boy. Me: “Oh. How about if I file a police report against him for sexually assaulting my daughter and the school for letting him do it?”
(When I say sexual attack, they all get tense and start talking at the same time.) “I don’t think it was that bad,” the teacher said. “Let’s not overreact,” said the advisor.Principal: “I don’t see what you’re getting at.” The mother of the boy then starts to cry. What did that happen? I ask my daughter. “He kept snapping my bra,” my daughter said. He wouldn’t stop, so I told Mr. [Teacher].
He told me not to worry about it. The boy did it again and took off my bra, so I hit him. He stopped after that.” (I look at the teacher.) “Did you let him do that?” Why did you not stop him? Let me touch the front of your pants if you come over here.” “What?” asked the teacher. No! I asked, “Does that seem wrong to you?” Go put on Mrs. [Advisor’s] bra right now. Check out how much fun it is for her. Or on the bra of that boy’s mom. Mine or yours. You think it’s fun because they’re kids?”
Manager: “Mrs. [My Name].” Please forgive me, but [Daughter] still hit another kid.” Me: “No. She fought back when another student tried to sexually assault her. He weighs 160 pounds and is almost 6 feet tall. She weighs 84 pounds and is 5 feet tall. He weighs twice as much and is a foot taller than she is. How many times ought she to have let him touch her?
Why didn’t the person who was meant to help and watch out for her in the classroom show up? What should she have done? He pulled on her bra so hard that it came off. The boy’s dad looks both mad and ashamed, and his mom is still crying. The teacher isn’t looking at me. I look at the teacher in charge. “I’m taking her home,” I said. The boy seems to have learned his lesson. Also, I hope this doesn’t happen to any other girl at this school or to [Daughter] again.
It’s crazy that you think he can do that to a 15-year-old girl when you wouldn’t let him do it to a staff member. I’m going to tell the school’s leaders about this. And I WILL have you arrested for sexual assault if you—” I look at the boy—”EVER touch my daughter again. Do you get it?” I was so mad that I got my daughter’s things and left. I told the School Board, some of whom I know, about it, and they told me it would be taken very seriously. For that subject, my daughter was put in a different class, away from the teacher and the boy.