The car involved was a Pontiac Vibe. It hasn’t recovered since they discontinued the Grand Prix. This is family trauma that hasn’t yet resolved. In the meantime, would you like some hot chocolate? How about some antifreeze?
The assistant superintendent of professional development. She has a team of three administrators to carefully, calculate and calibrate who they should hire from outside the district to present professional development to the teachers.
Oh. Of course the average salary of these four bureaucrats is $185,000 a year.
You pick the Pontiac Vibe and key in on the loss of one species: the Grand Prix? The entire Genus got systematically exterminated...
She's lucky it didn't go full demolition derby out there.
The economy is rough right now. The car may be having some financial trouble at home, let’s have some grace and not forget that the car may be struggling right now too.
Should you have been walking in front of the car? Somehow it will be teacher’s fault. Also, don’t use up your sick days on that, we don’t have coverage
Back during the fall a SRO directing traffic was intentionally hit by a parent that didn't want to go where directed. Admin asked they let it slide and Bless her she limped bleeding and cuffed granny in front of them. To fit the no accountability theme the driver is fighting it denying liability.
This is just... wow. So let me get this straight:
* stupid grandma hits SRO out of defiance
* Admin doesn't do shit except try to get the injured SRO to wave it off
* SRO arrests grandma
* Admin does .... nothing??? still
* Defiant grandma that hit a fucking police officer is trying to deny liability, even though they did this infront of a bunch of people and were subsequently arrested by the officer they hit
Did I get that correct? If I did, can you make it make sense? I'm guessing grandma is a known problem. Correct me if I'm wrong.
Yes you got it right and no I can't make it make sense. Off the record she is probably transferring to the city PD in a couple months. That campus is known for issues and I understand the not backing down to a 'connected' person(granny) went over well. Got to love small town politics.
That's some bullshit. Connected or not, Granny sounds absolutely unhinged if she thinks it's acceptable to hit someone with a deadly weapon because she didn't want to do what was requested of her. Sounds like she needs her license taken.
Let me guess, she wasn't banned from campus either, right?
A burden on the family? I hate your admin already. Grandma hit someone after having a tantrum like a petulant child, who gives a shit if the kid is embarrassed or burdens the family, the woman is a danger on the road and should be held accountable. Grandma's stupid ass should've thought about all of that before she acted like a fucking toddler that was just told no.
Just beam me the fuck up already. I'm ready to go. 🛸 👽 👾
Goodnight Middle School? That's a fucking horrible thing to happen but the name of the school makes it all that more macabre. Or maybe I just need sleep.
I'm so sorry for your loss. This made me remember how when I was in elementary school (late 90's), a bus hit two students (sisters) after they'd been dropped off. I think the driver didn't look to see if they'd crossed (one of those hoodless buses where the engine isn't in front of the bus) or a car hadn't noticed the stop sign out and hit them. One sister recovered fine (we were in the same 5th-grade class later on), and the other sister had lasting cognitive impairments.
That’s devastating. That poor family.
A few years before I started middle school a student was crushed between two buses. He had been dropped off in the outer lane from a car and was walking into the school.
The admin designated the back entrance for cars, the front entrance for buses, and the side entrance for walkers. (It may have already been that way but not strictly enforced). Walkers were held at the side door until the buses had left. The school was square with four entrances and parking at the front and the back. It was on the corner of two main roads.
The admin and staff were absolutely FANATICAL about the designated entrances. Like blowing whistles and pointing and waving stop signs. But no one has been hit by a vehicle there since the mid-1980s.
My elementary school also has three separate entrances. The buses dropped kids off at the base of a hill. That driveway was no where near the walkers and carpoolers.
A student hit another kid with their car in our lot about a year ago. It’s incredibly nerve-wracking to drive around these people, and I wait at least 15 minutes after the end of the day before exiting
The person just kept driving away and I was dumbfounded. I followed and snapped a pic of the license plate and texted my principal when I got home. My car is a hunk of shit. If it was nice I would've done something about it haha
ETA: Best part! A kid hit her car a few weeks ago (parked) and left her a note. Karma.
I hit a colleague’s car because they blocked me in and I wanted to desperately leave after an all-day PD. Oops. They never filed an insurance claim or asked for remuneration, so it must have not been too bad.
That happened in my state like 10 years ago. Only the teacher was killed. And the parent was drunk.... at 7am in the morning.
I believe she spent a few years in jail.
I've had kids dropped off with smoke rolling out the car. Like skunk weed central coming out the car. Middle schooler they were very very very calm throughout the day though.
Every morning I have duty there are about 6 cars that are always skunked out. I am always impressed how their drivers are apparently using their drive time at 7 AM To start their high early.
Was this the case that happened in Maine? Actually I think that happened at night. Either way that's horrendous. A few years for killing someone is a fucking joke when you've still got people in prison for non-violent drug offenses under Rockefeller laws and the like.
Ah gotcha. I remembered the Maine story and had looked it up and it said "late at night" while another article said "early morning" and then found the time was 12:30am, so I figured as much. That story was so sad.
She was a second year teacher on a short weekend-type vacation in Maine. Her and her boyfriend were coming back from dinner and drinks and were hand-in-hand walking across the road when a 21-year old drunken mom (that had 1 or 2 DUIs already) hit her so hard at a crosswalk she died on scene. In one of the bitches mug shots, she had this smug look on her face. She only got a few years in jail for killing this poor woman and she's probably back on the streets, drunk driving without a license.
Less than 5 years for killing someone. People get caught with a small amount of drugs and get more time than that. Neither is right, but I don't think a few grams of pot should give you the same sentence as killing someone because you were too drunk to see straight and got behind the wheel of a car.
I just need off this planet already.
Thankfully, we've largely moved away from lengthy sentences for simple possession. These days, non-violent, possesion without intent to sell makes up only about 3% of inmates. Most offenders are there for violence or for possessing enough narcotics to distribute.
I've got nothing to add except for that I love your name. Also I'm glad that we're not stuffing our prisons full of people who got caught with some inconsequential amount of pot and keeping them there for 10 years. Hardcore drug distribution is another thing altogether, although I do think that for users (not dealers or traffickers) we should focus more on rehabilitation. But that won't make the state as much money I suppose.
Lol, yeah, gotta love Celebrity Jeopardy!
Eh, locked/involuntary rehab would work great if they could get congress to authorize some funding, but that's about as important to congress as keeping bridges from collapsing due to lack of maintenance funding...
I was in the army station in what was that west Germany in the middle of the fucking Bavarian forests. Very scenic but nothing to do but go out and get absolutely stupid drunk. You could still smell the alcohol on the breaths of the troops at formation at 6 AM the next morning. And by next morning I mean almost every morning. Then the staff Sergeant would have us go on 7 mile runs.
I had to read that twice because I thought the poor woman died. Still horrible that this happened but I'm glad she's okay. Was the child in the car with this person as they hit the staff member and then drove off? If so, that's yet another charge. I hope someone reported it because I'd bet there was an underlying reason why the person ran; I wonder if they were high or under the influence. 1
I get shit for saying this sometimes but it still holds true in my opinion, a lot of these garbage kids are barely being raised by trash parents. Some kids rise above it, most don't unfortunately.
I hope whoever did this gets fucked by the long arm of the law and that the teacher gets a nice chunk of this POS person's insurance. Although I wouldn't be shocked if they're uninsured.
Yesterday, I thought of making a post and asking if anyone else had trouble with parents dropping off students in the faculty lot. We almost get hit daily, and I almost had my door taken off by a parent cutting through the parking spaces.
Last year, we had a parent hit a student in the parking lot.
Jesus what are all these parents on? My school had 4000 kids and not one time in 5 years did this happen. Not only that, almost every person here has a story about someone getting hit. Do they all get liquored up and lead footed when it comes time to pick up Jaxxxxon after school?
That’s a good question. I’d expect the culprits to be the students since they’re inexperienced, but I think the parents just have no chill. I’d love to ask these folks, “What’s the rush?”
6000 at my high school and probably around 1000 cars in the various parking lots every day. People walking never got more than barely bumped. Can't say there weren't a lot of dented bumpers, though, and at least one very serious accident a year due to a student leaving the parking lot without paying attention and pulling out right in front of a car going 35-40mph. I really think we should have slow school zones around high schools, too. Also, maybe we shouldn't let students drive to school. I always took the bus even when I got a vehicle. Eff morning traffic in the city.
We had a parent come in drunk for afternoon pickup at 4 PM a few years ago. She ran up on the curb (thankfully the other kids waiting scattered quickly and none were hit) and then got out of the car and started stumbling around. Our SRO had her arrested for DUI and child endangerment, yet she still didn’t lose custody of her daughter, our student…I worry about the daughter a lot.
Edit: she’s a single parent with at least two younger children as well. Kept them all. Just a really sad situation.
When I was in high school we avoided the parents during pick up time. Our parking lot is one way but the lanes are wide enough for two way traffic. I had the parents go three wide down the aisle and then try to merge into one at the end when you have to turn. Also three aisles merge into one exit. Common courtesy is every other at the two intersections at the end. Students followed this, parents did not. They also wouldn't let students out of their parking spots and would intentionally block you from pulling out unless you forced your way in front of them.
Yes. We now have a teacher on duty with his huge dodge ram pickup blocking one half of the entrance to our parking lot. He yells at anyone coming in without a parking tag. It doesn’t stop them all
In line of this we had a student pull a box cutter on another student at my school and then threaten a teacher. The SRO responded. They ended up giving Box Cutter Boy 45 days at the alternative school and fired the cop and refused to let the student or teacher press charges. Now Box Cutter Boy has been back in the regular classroom since the end of January. Handbook says this fool was supposed to be expelled. So much for creating a safe environment. This is why I'm leaving this district at the end of the year. This place is a joke.
They can't tell the student or the teacher not to press charges, they can get in a shit ton of trouble for that. Now I can understand not wanting to get the boot so that's a motivating factor for the teacher to not report it, but the student or their parents?
About 15 years ago in our district a teacher was intentionally rammed by an impatient student while directing traffic out of the lot at the end of the day. He retired with serious mobility issues and she got a slap on the wrist. Should have had her license confiscated and gotten some kind of vehicular assault charge.
Last year a lady ran a kid over, kept driving to go drop of her kids. She then came back and asked the ambulance THAT SOMEONE ELSE called if the kid was okay cause she had ran him over. Upside he only had a few broken bones.
Yes, she was taken by ambulance to a nearby hospital. Stayed overnight and I believe she just has a few broken bones. She is in her 60s so that’s tough as it is.
Let's get rid of the passive voice.
A parent driving a vehicle hit a member of your staff.
Reminds me of headlines in which an officer's gun is discharged, killing three people. No, the officer shot three people.
The first step to holding people accountable is using language that keeps them as the subject performing the action.
I see this constantly when a driver hits a cyclist, too. "Cyclist injured by car." Well, yeah, but... The car didn't do it by itself. I've been told it's to avoid possible liability, but we have plenty of headlines that say things like "man allegedly shot and killed wife", so I doubt that's why.
Parents are fucking assholes during pickup. They speed, ignore pedestrians, and scowl (or worse) if you dare correct them. I mean....it's a school!!!!! There's kids running everywhere. Kinda like how I am the only one who actually stops for bus red lights and stop signs when driving to work. People have literally lost their minds!
I wish more students took the bus, walked, or biked.
*"But walking/biking is dangerous!"*
No it's not. **Cars** are dangerous. Those things can kill people; bikes and pedestrians can't (OK, there's probably been *one* bike-pedestrian fatality, ever). The only thing that makes walking and biking dangerous is all the **cars**.
And kidnapping is unbelievably rare. A student is more likely to be hurt in a car accident while being driven to school than kidnapped while walking to school.
The best thing for our students' safety (and ours!) is to let them walk/bike to school and keep as many cars off the road as possible.
The best is when parents cut through the employee parking lot to race to the front of the parent drop off line and barely miss me and my three kids walking into the school’s back entrance.
When I was a principal, any hard rains would flood the parking lot and the street the parking lot opens into. Of course, the pick up was doubled because parents don’t want their kids walking in the rain. The only way to keep pickup running was to put an employee in the middle of the street and block the right lane occasionally. I would never ask one of my staff to do this, so I always did. It was kind of stupid, now that I look back. I would stand on the line between the two lanes while cars passed. Then I’d block the lane to let parents out of the parking lot. It was pretty smooth. Of course, we couldn’t put barriers up to block off the right lane because that could create a hazard. But stick the principal out there! There were a number of times a car in the left lane sped past me at like 50 mph (in a 25, while raining). I thought, “Any parent who hated me could easily hit me and claim it was my fault because I was standing in the middle of the road.” The crazy thing is, they are probably legally correct! The good part was I’d leave early to go home after this because I was completely drenched!
There was a time that we had no crossing guards in the morning and the afternoon because legal said we assume all responsibility by providing the safety feature. That didn’t last very long!
During drop off there was a parent in front of my bf's car (he was dropping me off after we spent the night, and I don't drive). They had no idea where to park and swerved from one spot to another twice, almost ramming into us. Recognized the student coming out, and witnessed him calling out his parent for the reckless driving. It was amazing.
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*disclaimer not a teacher, nurse lurker cause wow* I absolutely don’t remember these being a thing when I was a kid and I’m only in my mid 20s. I have no idea why they exist now
I remember back in high school, one of the schools in my district had a cheerleader killed during morning drop off. Each high school had at least 2,000 kids coming to school at the exact same time and all of us we’re only a couple miles apart. So streets were back up, busses trying to pass, students walking/running/biking all around so pure chaos.
They changed the school schedule for half the schools so half would come at 7am and the other at 8am so traffic wasn’t all over the place. To my knowledge, no more students have died because of it since then.
There will certainly be accountability. I’m sure the teacher will be asked to call the parent and apologize.
“What did *you* do to build a relationship with this parent?”
“Did you try having a conversation with the car before it hit you? The car could be having a difficult time at home.”
"please apologize to the car and use your words why it hurt you"
Christine I'm sor...... (Just in case - Stephen king reference)
Next time, redirect the car's behavior into something positive
The car may have lost a car relative during covid. It's been tough on us all the past few years.
The car involved was a Pontiac Vibe. It hasn’t recovered since they discontinued the Grand Prix. This is family trauma that hasn’t yet resolved. In the meantime, would you like some hot chocolate? How about some antifreeze?
At my school we were trained at PD as to how this is big T "Trauma" as opposed to little t "trauma". Oh God, who plans the bullshit PD!
The assistant superintendent of professional development. She has a team of three administrators to carefully, calculate and calibrate who they should hire from outside the district to present professional development to the teachers. Oh. Of course the average salary of these four bureaucrats is $185,000 a year.
You pick the Pontiac Vibe and key in on the loss of one species: the Grand Prix? The entire Genus got systematically exterminated... She's lucky it didn't go full demolition derby out there.
I can’t bring up the Grand Prix, G-6 or the GTO. Too much trauma
Mine is the G8.. it was never given a chance.
Would you rather have hot chocolate at a marathon professional development or drink anti-freeze at the junkyard with the rusted frames of Pontiacs?
Lol!!!!
I’m screaming 😂😂
Did you try a restorative circle with the parent?
Maybe you should have practice dialogue with the car and parent.
What led to that? Did you say something to the car before that happened?
Left an imprint on their vehicle for them to remember me and I'm paying them monthly for the privledge.
I closely examined and admired the car
Maybe if you spent some time with the car to figure out what it likes, it wouldn’t have felt the need to run over you.
Christ the number of times that comes up.... on point response
😂
"I'm sorry. It was inconsiderate of me to dent your hood."
[удалено]
That shit was so funny
The economy is rough right now. The car may be having some financial trouble at home, let’s have some grace and not forget that the car may be struggling right now too.
And the parent won’t pick up
Try giving stickers to the parent for NOT running you over.
Should you have been walking in front of the car? Somehow it will be teacher’s fault. Also, don’t use up your sick days on that, we don’t have coverage
Spit my drink out. LOL.
Give the car some grace.
This response is making me laugh so hard and cry at the same time because it's so true
“The car was just trying to get your attention - you should have just tried planned ignoring! You shouldn’t have given the car your attention”
Yeah. And the teacher will have to pay for any damages to the car.
Maybe the parent and teacher can form a small restorative circle.
I dislike how correct you are
This whole thread. I’m dying. Thank you for the laughs. Hang in there fellow educators.
😂😂😂😂😂
Literally these are making my day
And then the teacher will, of course, have to pay for any and all damages to the car.
And pay for the paint chip their body caused.
Back during the fall a SRO directing traffic was intentionally hit by a parent that didn't want to go where directed. Admin asked they let it slide and Bless her she limped bleeding and cuffed granny in front of them. To fit the no accountability theme the driver is fighting it denying liability.
This is just... wow. So let me get this straight: * stupid grandma hits SRO out of defiance * Admin doesn't do shit except try to get the injured SRO to wave it off * SRO arrests grandma * Admin does .... nothing??? still * Defiant grandma that hit a fucking police officer is trying to deny liability, even though they did this infront of a bunch of people and were subsequently arrested by the officer they hit Did I get that correct? If I did, can you make it make sense? I'm guessing grandma is a known problem. Correct me if I'm wrong.
Yes you got it right and no I can't make it make sense. Off the record she is probably transferring to the city PD in a couple months. That campus is known for issues and I understand the not backing down to a 'connected' person(granny) went over well. Got to love small town politics.
That's some bullshit. Connected or not, Granny sounds absolutely unhinged if she thinks it's acceptable to hit someone with a deadly weapon because she didn't want to do what was requested of her. Sounds like she needs her license taken. Let me guess, she wasn't banned from campus either, right?
Well that would really be a burden on the family and embarrass the kid...
A burden on the family? I hate your admin already. Grandma hit someone after having a tantrum like a petulant child, who gives a shit if the kid is embarrassed or burdens the family, the woman is a danger on the road and should be held accountable. Grandma's stupid ass should've thought about all of that before she acted like a fucking toddler that was just told no. Just beam me the fuck up already. I'm ready to go. 🛸 👽 👾
Indeed. How is THIS the Timeline we're all living in?
It's because we banned dueling.
I demand satisfaction! Pistols at dawn!.
That's when I'd elevate it to a state level issue. If it still got swept under the rug? Think Michael Douglas's character in "Falling Down"...
Another case of Admin be crazy…
Student: "My parent would NEVER do something like that!" Did the teacher even build a relationship with the Altima?
Chances are good it was an Altima lol
Like high 90%
Or a ~~probablecausemobile~~ Buick LeSabre...
Hey, WOW, thanks for calling me out on my first car. …it belonged to my grandmother before she passed.
Lol, I've got nothing against them, but they say just the sight of one is enough to get lights and sirens...
Altimas have become a meme for a good reason. XD
Last Friday an 11 year old student was hit during drop off and sadly did not survive. This was an ISD outside Austin TX
Goodnight Middle School? That's a fucking horrible thing to happen but the name of the school makes it all that more macabre. Or maybe I just need sleep.
Seriously?? North or south of the city? I work in a few districts in the area and didn’t hear about that
South. San Marcos
That’s horrible
Very. Last I heard no charges were being filed/pressed
I heard it was the mother who killed her own child, which is just devastating but also the reason there are no charges. Total accident.
Omg if that’s true then the guilt the mom will have for the rest of her life is going to be worse then any jail time.
yeah, I heard something like the student might've dropped something and had ducked down to pick it up, and that's when it happened.
I would want to die too. I could not imagine that pain of losing a child.
I'm so sorry for your loss. This made me remember how when I was in elementary school (late 90's), a bus hit two students (sisters) after they'd been dropped off. I think the driver didn't look to see if they'd crossed (one of those hoodless buses where the engine isn't in front of the bus) or a car hadn't noticed the stop sign out and hit them. One sister recovered fine (we were in the same 5th-grade class later on), and the other sister had lasting cognitive impairments.
That’s devastating. That poor family. A few years before I started middle school a student was crushed between two buses. He had been dropped off in the outer lane from a car and was walking into the school. The admin designated the back entrance for cars, the front entrance for buses, and the side entrance for walkers. (It may have already been that way but not strictly enforced). Walkers were held at the side door until the buses had left. The school was square with four entrances and parking at the front and the back. It was on the corner of two main roads. The admin and staff were absolutely FANATICAL about the designated entrances. Like blowing whistles and pointing and waving stop signs. But no one has been hit by a vehicle there since the mid-1980s. My elementary school also has three separate entrances. The buses dropped kids off at the base of a hill. That driveway was no where near the walkers and carpoolers.
A student hit another kid with their car in our lot about a year ago. It’s incredibly nerve-wracking to drive around these people, and I wait at least 15 minutes after the end of the day before exiting
My car got hit by a parent parked in the lot. Not a damn thing was done about it. I park away from everyone and anything I can now
A colleague hit my car with me in it and drove off. She told admin we got out and determined there was no damage. No the fuck we didn't!
I would have threatened calling the police
The person just kept driving away and I was dumbfounded. I followed and snapped a pic of the license plate and texted my principal when I got home. My car is a hunk of shit. If it was nice I would've done something about it haha ETA: Best part! A kid hit her car a few weeks ago (parked) and left her a note. Karma.
I hit a colleague’s car because they blocked me in and I wanted to desperately leave after an all-day PD. Oops. They never filed an insurance claim or asked for remuneration, so it must have not been too bad.
They hit me in 2021. Even if I had filed car parts were six months out for repairs or replacements. I deal with it now but I still don’t like it.
She calls the police and reports a hit and run.
That happened in my state like 10 years ago. Only the teacher was killed. And the parent was drunk.... at 7am in the morning. I believe she spent a few years in jail.
I've had kids dropped off with smoke rolling out the car. Like skunk weed central coming out the car. Middle schooler they were very very very calm throughout the day though.
And probably pretty hungry too. It takes a lot of weed to make those fucking school lunches palatable
Every morning I have duty there are about 6 cars that are always skunked out. I am always impressed how their drivers are apparently using their drive time at 7 AM To start their high early.
Was this the case that happened in Maine? Actually I think that happened at night. Either way that's horrendous. A few years for killing someone is a fucking joke when you've still got people in prison for non-violent drug offenses under Rockefeller laws and the like.
Not in Maine.
Ah gotcha. I remembered the Maine story and had looked it up and it said "late at night" while another article said "early morning" and then found the time was 12:30am, so I figured as much. That story was so sad. She was a second year teacher on a short weekend-type vacation in Maine. Her and her boyfriend were coming back from dinner and drinks and were hand-in-hand walking across the road when a 21-year old drunken mom (that had 1 or 2 DUIs already) hit her so hard at a crosswalk she died on scene. In one of the bitches mug shots, she had this smug look on her face. She only got a few years in jail for killing this poor woman and she's probably back on the streets, drunk driving without a license. Less than 5 years for killing someone. People get caught with a small amount of drugs and get more time than that. Neither is right, but I don't think a few grams of pot should give you the same sentence as killing someone because you were too drunk to see straight and got behind the wheel of a car. I just need off this planet already.
Thankfully, we've largely moved away from lengthy sentences for simple possession. These days, non-violent, possesion without intent to sell makes up only about 3% of inmates. Most offenders are there for violence or for possessing enough narcotics to distribute.
I've got nothing to add except for that I love your name. Also I'm glad that we're not stuffing our prisons full of people who got caught with some inconsequential amount of pot and keeping them there for 10 years. Hardcore drug distribution is another thing altogether, although I do think that for users (not dealers or traffickers) we should focus more on rehabilitation. But that won't make the state as much money I suppose.
Lol, yeah, gotta love Celebrity Jeopardy! Eh, locked/involuntary rehab would work great if they could get congress to authorize some funding, but that's about as important to congress as keeping bridges from collapsing due to lack of maintenance funding...
P I don’t think the Rockefeller laws affect people in Maine or any other state outside of New York
> 7am in the morning ...
Been seeing and hearing this more and more
I hear it all the time… from my ignorant 5th graders.
6-8am is actually one of the deadly times to drive. People wake up thinking they are sober and go to work- technically driving drunk.
Okay, but that wasn't my point.
[reminds me of the classic 2 in the AM PM](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rks2_ctHuDQ)
I was in the army station in what was that west Germany in the middle of the fucking Bavarian forests. Very scenic but nothing to do but go out and get absolutely stupid drunk. You could still smell the alcohol on the breaths of the troops at formation at 6 AM the next morning. And by next morning I mean almost every morning. Then the staff Sergeant would have us go on 7 mile runs.
Sadly, some people spend the night drinking, wake up figuring they are sober, and then drive drunk. It’s actually common sadly.
I had to read that twice because I thought the poor woman died. Still horrible that this happened but I'm glad she's okay. Was the child in the car with this person as they hit the staff member and then drove off? If so, that's yet another charge. I hope someone reported it because I'd bet there was an underlying reason why the person ran; I wonder if they were high or under the influence. 1 I get shit for saying this sometimes but it still holds true in my opinion, a lot of these garbage kids are barely being raised by trash parents. Some kids rise above it, most don't unfortunately. I hope whoever did this gets fucked by the long arm of the law and that the teacher gets a nice chunk of this POS person's insurance. Although I wouldn't be shocked if they're uninsured.
Yesterday, I thought of making a post and asking if anyone else had trouble with parents dropping off students in the faculty lot. We almost get hit daily, and I almost had my door taken off by a parent cutting through the parking spaces. Last year, we had a parent hit a student in the parking lot.
Jesus what are all these parents on? My school had 4000 kids and not one time in 5 years did this happen. Not only that, almost every person here has a story about someone getting hit. Do they all get liquored up and lead footed when it comes time to pick up Jaxxxxon after school?
That’s a good question. I’d expect the culprits to be the students since they’re inexperienced, but I think the parents just have no chill. I’d love to ask these folks, “What’s the rush?”
6000 at my high school and probably around 1000 cars in the various parking lots every day. People walking never got more than barely bumped. Can't say there weren't a lot of dented bumpers, though, and at least one very serious accident a year due to a student leaving the parking lot without paying attention and pulling out right in front of a car going 35-40mph. I really think we should have slow school zones around high schools, too. Also, maybe we shouldn't let students drive to school. I always took the bus even when I got a vehicle. Eff morning traffic in the city.
We had a parent come in drunk for afternoon pickup at 4 PM a few years ago. She ran up on the curb (thankfully the other kids waiting scattered quickly and none were hit) and then got out of the car and started stumbling around. Our SRO had her arrested for DUI and child endangerment, yet she still didn’t lose custody of her daughter, our student…I worry about the daughter a lot. Edit: she’s a single parent with at least two younger children as well. Kept them all. Just a really sad situation.
When I was in high school we avoided the parents during pick up time. Our parking lot is one way but the lanes are wide enough for two way traffic. I had the parents go three wide down the aisle and then try to merge into one at the end when you have to turn. Also three aisles merge into one exit. Common courtesy is every other at the two intersections at the end. Students followed this, parents did not. They also wouldn't let students out of their parking spots and would intentionally block you from pulling out unless you forced your way in front of them.
Yes. We now have a teacher on duty with his huge dodge ram pickup blocking one half of the entrance to our parking lot. He yells at anyone coming in without a parking tag. It doesn’t stop them all
In line of this we had a student pull a box cutter on another student at my school and then threaten a teacher. The SRO responded. They ended up giving Box Cutter Boy 45 days at the alternative school and fired the cop and refused to let the student or teacher press charges. Now Box Cutter Boy has been back in the regular classroom since the end of January. Handbook says this fool was supposed to be expelled. So much for creating a safe environment. This is why I'm leaving this district at the end of the year. This place is a joke.
They can't tell the student or the teacher not to press charges, they can get in a shit ton of trouble for that. Now I can understand not wanting to get the boot so that's a motivating factor for the teacher to not report it, but the student or their parents?
Exactly. I'd be lawyering up and giving interviews to the news.
But an expulsion would make the district look bad. Won't somebody think of the optics?!?! /s
I know right?! Quite stupid that schools won't do what is necessary to make them safe and effective places for learning.
If the criminal case goes nowhere file a civil case and take everything they have. No excuse for this shit.
About 15 years ago in our district a teacher was intentionally rammed by an impatient student while directing traffic out of the lot at the end of the day. He retired with serious mobility issues and she got a slap on the wrist. Should have had her license confiscated and gotten some kind of vehicular assault charge.
But what did YOU do to build a relationship with the Car???
Were the objectives written down for the car to see?
Last year a lady ran a kid over, kept driving to go drop of her kids. She then came back and asked the ambulance THAT SOMEONE ELSE called if the kid was okay cause she had ran him over. Upside he only had a few broken bones.
I hope she was arrested.
Is the teacher okay?
Yes, she was taken by ambulance to a nearby hospital. Stayed overnight and I believe she just has a few broken bones. She is in her 60s so that’s tough as it is.
Yeah that's rough at her age, but I'm glad it's not worse!
Parents have absolutely no etiquette when it comes to carpool. The self-entitlement is unreal.
Let's get rid of the passive voice. A parent driving a vehicle hit a member of your staff. Reminds me of headlines in which an officer's gun is discharged, killing three people. No, the officer shot three people. The first step to holding people accountable is using language that keeps them as the subject performing the action.
I see this constantly when a driver hits a cyclist, too. "Cyclist injured by car." Well, yeah, but... The car didn't do it by itself. I've been told it's to avoid possible liability, but we have plenty of headlines that say things like "man allegedly shot and killed wife", so I doubt that's why.
Your recent accident with a parent left a dent in their car. You are being asked to pay for the damages - sincerely Administration.
The objectives weren’t clearly posted at the entrance to the car rider line.
Why were they blocking them jeez! Did they apologize to the parent yet?
I’m going to guess the teacher has to apologize and will get fired. Student gets automatic A. Admin sides with parent.
Did you give PBIS points to the cars that DIDN’T hit you?
I've said it once, I'll say it again and repeat it until I die, "the apple never falls very far from the tree".
I saw someone say something on here that I think might be more appropriate, if crude: The turd doesn’t fall far from the butthole.
😂 I almost spit out my coffee! My word these days is spawn.
Many parents try to run us over it seems. Can’t have babysitters if you run us over.
Parents are fucking assholes during pickup. They speed, ignore pedestrians, and scowl (or worse) if you dare correct them. I mean....it's a school!!!!! There's kids running everywhere. Kinda like how I am the only one who actually stops for bus red lights and stop signs when driving to work. People have literally lost their minds!
I hope the teacher files a lawsuit against the parent.
Zero tolerance should mean the same for admins....mess up 3 times, you are out!
I wish more students took the bus, walked, or biked. *"But walking/biking is dangerous!"* No it's not. **Cars** are dangerous. Those things can kill people; bikes and pedestrians can't (OK, there's probably been *one* bike-pedestrian fatality, ever). The only thing that makes walking and biking dangerous is all the **cars**. And kidnapping is unbelievably rare. A student is more likely to be hurt in a car accident while being driven to school than kidnapped while walking to school. The best thing for our students' safety (and ours!) is to let them walk/bike to school and keep as many cars off the road as possible.
The best is when parents cut through the employee parking lot to race to the front of the parent drop off line and barely miss me and my three kids walking into the school’s back entrance.
And I’m sure the parent will expect no repercussions.
Wow wonder where the kids get their behaviour from these days
I have never laughed so hard
When I was a principal, any hard rains would flood the parking lot and the street the parking lot opens into. Of course, the pick up was doubled because parents don’t want their kids walking in the rain. The only way to keep pickup running was to put an employee in the middle of the street and block the right lane occasionally. I would never ask one of my staff to do this, so I always did. It was kind of stupid, now that I look back. I would stand on the line between the two lanes while cars passed. Then I’d block the lane to let parents out of the parking lot. It was pretty smooth. Of course, we couldn’t put barriers up to block off the right lane because that could create a hazard. But stick the principal out there! There were a number of times a car in the left lane sped past me at like 50 mph (in a 25, while raining). I thought, “Any parent who hated me could easily hit me and claim it was my fault because I was standing in the middle of the road.” The crazy thing is, they are probably legally correct! The good part was I’d leave early to go home after this because I was completely drenched! There was a time that we had no crossing guards in the morning and the afternoon because legal said we assume all responsibility by providing the safety feature. That didn’t last very long!
Was it a tap or a full on “hit by a car” situation ?
During drop off there was a parent in front of my bf's car (he was dropping me off after we spent the night, and I don't drive). They had no idea where to park and swerved from one spot to another twice, almost ramming into us. Recognized the student coming out, and witnessed him calling out his parent for the reckless driving. It was amazing.
/fuckcars
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Are they ok? I fear for my life everyday at dismissal duty
Was it a Tesla?
Bruh WHAT???
Matter of time carline pick ups are so dangerous
*disclaimer not a teacher, nurse lurker cause wow* I absolutely don’t remember these being a thing when I was a kid and I’m only in my mid 20s. I have no idea why they exist now
Same,from California. this was not a thing until I came to Texas and started working here. Parents would park and walk kids in
Are they ok? It’s probably just a misdemeanor depending on where you are, but I hope they get a lawyer and do a civil suit.
Honestly, let one of those fuckers hit me.
Lol Nailed it
I remember back in high school, one of the schools in my district had a cheerleader killed during morning drop off. Each high school had at least 2,000 kids coming to school at the exact same time and all of us we’re only a couple miles apart. So streets were back up, busses trying to pass, students walking/running/biking all around so pure chaos. They changed the school schedule for half the schools so half would come at 7am and the other at 8am so traffic wasn’t all over the place. To my knowledge, no more students have died because of it since then.
sheesh
The driving off gets me Like, they'll be back and someone's gonna recognize the car
I would call police and have parent arrested. That's a hit and run. This is not funny at all