felipe_the_dog t1_iu5rroh wrote
Reply to comment by daedalus_was_right in Sub shortage adds to teacher stress: Many report depression, burnout and more after COVID-19 burdens by rollotomasi07071
I never really understood why the admins don't support the teachers when there are disputes with the parents. If it's a public school at least, tell the parents to kick rocks. What's the risk here? Apologies if I'm being naive.
daedalus_was_right t1_iu5t5jt wrote
Parents sue school districts on a fairly regular basis.
RosaKlebb t1_iu6l1rl wrote
Yeah liability is huge in that environment. Not to say everyone with a grievance with school is frivolous suit happy but there are very easy lines to cross that can have things implode.
Someone I know from college successfully sued their high school when they got a drug test forced on them on the suspicion of “they look high”. I think at the time there needed to be protocol to notify parents and some other stuff, and basically the teacher making the claim’s husband is a town cop who doubles as school safety officer and she more or less sicc’d him on the student to intimidate them to take a drug test with all sorts of threats for them refusing until they did just to leave the nurse’s office.
Family pretty much nailed the school.
caesar____augustus t1_iu60bo4 wrote
It's a lot easier to cave to parents. A lot of times parents won't even deal with counselors, building admin etc and will go straight to the superintendent, who will then put pressure on building admins to deal with the issue as quickly as possible. That usually means the teachers get hosed.
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