Easy there...no need to get personal and compare me to the administrator in the previous post. I do not have that admin's mentality. I would've handled that situation completely different. Quit making assumptions because you're making a lot of them concerning me.

Ha...on your post, you invited a lawsuit over an "illegal search" which in my opinion shows you are willing to to disregard laws because you have the greater good of "protecting 2,100 students". That is a dangerous mindset and leads to situations like my fiend had to deal with. So you in my mind are just like all the administrators I've ever dealt with. Every one of them that I've met think they have power over "sue happy lawnmower" parents. They know parents like I don't have deep pockets nor the time to spend to fight so they bully with the idea they're protecting either my kid or other kids. I've luckily never dealt with an illegal search but I've dealt with administrators in the wrong before and it is an uphill battle for parents.

You've shown your colors in your original post.

I strongly recommend parents to get involved run for school board if you can sacrifice the time, get on PTO committees, get to know your school board memebers, attend as many meetings as you can, educate yourself with State and district policies but also IDEA.

You and I will just have to agree to disagree. You don't know me, I don't know you...let's just call it even.

Every time I've searched a kid, I've asked their permission to do so and I always inform the parent. If they said no, we didn't conduct a search. I'm not a bully. However, I make certain that I am within policy before I go down a road that may lead to a search.

Because of the nature of our society and the war on public education, we have to investigate every little thing that comes our way. The one time we let something slide could potentially be the one time something bad happens and then what? Parents demand changes and people get fired because they didn't investigate a "tip". Public school administrators are imperfect people working in an imperfect world.

If I'm guilty of my true colors being that I protect the students in my school, then so be it.

I agree with all of that, but I would also add that parents need to get to know the school's administration. Open lines of communication between parents and administrators can solve a lot of issues and miscommunications. The parents of my school know that they can reach out to me at any time, 24/7.

I agree there should be rapport there . Most times there is more good than bad. The bad is what lead me to run for school board and get on the board. The district was also having alot of other issues such as failing to identify and test kids for disabilities like Dyslexia. They had no dyslexia program and no licensed dyslexia therapist

Since been on the board our district now has a Pre-flight and take flight program and 3 licensed dyslexia therapist. Kids are identified early as kindergarten. We have a STEM/AVID option starting at the 5th grade level, chrome books, IPads and other technology being sued in the classrooms, good teachers are valued and paid great well to retain great staff but to be competitive to gain great teachers.

That's great! Funny you mention dyslexia because that was the topic that drove a wedge between my family and our school administrators.

It isn't feasible for every parent to sit for school board and be a positive change for the district though. At the minimum, a parent should be the advocate for their child because some administration thinks they know what's best when they barely know the child. The unfortunate part is Some parents don't have the resource of time or money which makes advocating for their or other children difficult.

Our district had one dyslexia therapist (going for licensing). She was not good and had a predetermined mold for boys. Our son has dyslexia but he didn't fit her mold so she insisted he had other mental issues and needed to be in the special ed program and not in her dyslexia program. She discounted analysis from Scottish rite where the head of the program, Dr. Black specifically sat with us and told us he had dyslexia and with instruction, he would excel.

Our main issue was this dyslexia teacher happened to be married to the assistant superintendent and had power...but was useless in her position. Nobody would side with us because they were scared of her power. So we were stuck and powerless in that district.

The best option was for us to pull him from their program but keep him in their public school. We didn't have a ton of resources so we couldn't pay for private school. We paid tens of thousands of dollars For a private licensed dyslexia tutor after school every day for several years Immediate improvement was shown.

9 years later, that "special ed" student "who would have his lunch eaten by 3rd grade" and had some other "brain malfunction" taught himself German and is in all AP and advanced classes in high school. It's still a struggle at times for him but he fights through his dyslexia without using his accommodations.

We didn't have the resources to make a positive change for the district but we did have enough for a positive change for our child. That lady moved on to another district where her husband is now superintendent. I feel for that district. We moved out of state of which is lacking in dyslexia and learning disabilities.

We would carry guns to school all the time. When columbine hit we had an assembly in the auditorium where the superintendent said no more guns on campus and the older kids threw quite a tantrum over it because guns are cool and deer season and we had a pretty bad hog problem and the 4-H kids were about to be lined up against the wall and shot for it.

We kept carrying guns to school, though. Even when we got a "security guard", we would have guns. When the drug dogs started coming around, we would have to report if we were keeping any weapons in our cars just to keep things smooth. The unwritten rule was never bring them indoors, though, which I think was appropriate.