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    Post Is it Illegal for a School to Ban a Parent from Coming Inside

    My question involves criminal law for the state of: VT


    My child is in Kindergarten. I walk her to class occasionally, as do many other parents. It is something we are allowed to do.

    One of the teachers at her school (not her teacher) does not "like me" due to the fact I am currently dating one of her ex's. She has recently (mid school year) went to the school board and said my presence makes her uncomfortable and she feels unsafe when I am at the school. I have never spoken to her or threatened her in any way in or out of the school.

    I was informed yesterday that I am no longer allowed to walk my daughter to class or be in the school due to the fact that she doesn't feel comfortable when I'm there. Do I have grounds for a discrimination suit? Or any suit? I am consulting with a lawyer next week, but don't feel that it is fair that other parents are allowed and I am not for the simple reason that someone doesn't like me.....I have had problems with the school since the beginning of the year due to this teacher.

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    Default Re: Is the School Threatening/Intimidating Me

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    I was informed yesterday that I am no longer allowed to walk my daughter to class or be in the school due to the fact that she doesn't feel comfortable when I'm there. Do I have grounds for a discrimination suit? Or any suit? I am consulting with a lawyer next week, but don't feel that it is fair that other parents are allowed and I am not for the simple reason that someone doesn't like me.....I have had problems with the school since the beginning of the year due to this teacher.
    How exactly were you informed? Was it by a letter from the BOE or from the principal or a phone call? What?

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    Default Re: Is the School Threatening/Intimidating Me

    I got a call from the HR manager of the school board. Saying "they have decided" that I can no longer be in the school or walk my daughter to her class.

    I asked why I was not being allowed to, but other parents still were. He stated that "they are not in the same situation as you" I am unclear what that situation is other than someone's insecurities/feelings, that I can't help.

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    Default Re: Is the School Threatening/Intimidating Me

    So the HR manager of the Board calls you and says that the Board has decided that you can no longer be in the school. Well that would take some formal action by the Board to implement. That means that at one of their meetings they would have had to discuss the issue (perhaps as a matter in closed session) then come out of closed session and placed their decision on the record and why they made that decision.

    Obviously, they did not hear from you in their deliberations and you have no idea what this teacher told the Board.

    So, I'm not going to preempt the attorney you will be seeing but I would be writing a letter to the BOE asking for the records of discussion and the action they took for starters. The BOE is subject to your state's sunshine law (open public meeting law) and they have to conduct their business in accordance of it.

    A call from the HR manager has absolutely no authority here.

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    Default Re: Is the School Threatening/Intimidating Me

    Thank you for your reply! I know NOTHING about school boards so I did not know that a meeting/deliberation would of had to happen, so again, thanks!!

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    Default Re: Is the School Threatening/Intimidating Me

    Just curious, how do the kindergarten kids get to school when a parent does not walk them? Bus? Or is a five year old expected to walk themselves to school with no adult supervision?

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    Default Re: Is the School Threatening/Intimidating Me

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    I got a call from the HR manager of the school board. Saying "they have decided" that I can no longer be in the school or walk my daughter to her class.

    I asked why I was not being allowed to, but other parents still were. He stated that "they are not in the same situation as you" I am unclear what that situation is other than someone's insecurities/feelings, that I can't help.
    I suspect that there were no meetings and no documentation and that the HR manager just did a favor for the teacher by making a call that he likely had no authority to make.

    If it was me, I'd ignore that, keep walking my kid to school, and just let somebody try and stop me.

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    Default Re: Is the School Threatening/Intimidating Me

    You know that school boards do not have HR managers, right?

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    Default Re: Is the School Threatening/Intimidating Me

    I would call their bluff and walk her to class anyway.

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    Default Re: Is the School Threatening/Intimidating Me

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    You know that school boards do not have HR managers, right?
    Yes I thought that this was a bit weird too. Also that even if this was an HR Manager (of the school board, of the teachers, whatever), making a call like this is in no HR Manager job description I've ever heard of. (And yes, I have heard of HR Managers overstepping their bounds, but never in any scenario even remotely resembling this one).

    OP are you absolutely sure it was an HR Manager associated with the school or board that made this call?

    (And to some of the others posting here, I don't think OP was told to stop walking her daughter to school - nobody can prohibit that, and certainly not a possibly-faux HR Manager, I think OP was told to stop walking her daughter to class - which I took to mean OP cannot go into the school with her daughter, she must leave her daughter at the school door.)

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