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good reply susan, i agree.
-----Original Message-----
From: Susan Moskowitz [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Thursday, September 09, 1999 12:48 AM
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Subject: Re: Please
Kim,=20
I'm sorry to hear that you are already being hassled. It seems to me =
that you really have two seperate problems: a schoolmate who is =
harrassing you and a principal who wants to avoid his responibility to =
handle the situation. It is his responsibility to protect you (and =
every other student in the school from peer harrassment ) and his =
responsibility to establish and enforce the school's disciplinary =
procedures. Leaving the decision about what should be done up to you =
merely gives him an easy way to avoid these unpleasant aspects of his =
job. (If you insist that action be taken and the kid or his parents =
object, the principal will be able to say that the action is only being =
taken because you demanded it. If you take a wait and see attitude and =
the harrassment continues, he will be able to claim that you rejected =
his efforts to resolve the problem. My advice is, don't let the =
principal get away with this. Tell him that you will rely on his =
professsional judgement as to how this incident should be handled. That =
way, the principal will have to make the decision and handle =
theconsequences. That, after all, is his job.
Susan =20
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