I
have seen school districts using calls to child protective services
agencies as a means of chilling parental advocacy. Of course, these
calls are couched under the heading of "doing our jobs",
"better safe than sorry", and "we are mandatory
reporters.
" All of these justifications would have more
credibility if the calls were more even-handed and applied to school
personnel who may have committed acts of abuse in the classroom.
These claims are met with wide-eyed innocence with the administration
dismissing such accusations with a blanket immunity that "school
people do not commit acts of abuse."
My glib answer is that
school personnel do not take virtue pills in the morning and they are
just as able to be an abuser as any parent. At a minimum, any
call to child protective services also needs to be grounded upon a
reasonable basis.
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