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I am the son of an older hispanic women who works for the board of Ed. here in NY.she is a Para prof. working a 1 on 1 with a physically disabled child.being a women who has struggled to get were she is now since her english is not too good, there are peolpe (co-workers and Principle) at her job who have been taking advantage of her and looking for any excuse that they can get to her terminated.

The most recent inncedents have been were she was with her 1 on 1 child in the bathroom. since the child is physically disabled her duties are to clean the child (wich i dont think is right to begin with), ass she was cleaning the child and bent down to tie her shoe laces the little girl smugged her hand full of soap on my mothers head. she didn't notice that the girl did this until two other girls notified her what she did. she then took what she could off her head and smugged it back on the girls shirt and told her " dont do it again"!!...Later on when they got back into the classroom the girl stood by the teachers desk to grab the teachers attention, she then told the teacher that my mother her parra had pushed her and without disscusing it with my mother she went straight to the principle to tell him that the child had been abused.

my mother was called by the principle and was told by him in a harsh matter that "YOU HAVE A SERIOUS CASE OPEN OF CHILD ABUSE" she tried to talk with him but he told her " I CANT LISTEN TO YOU UNTIL I DO MY OWN INVESTIGATION" he had shut her down not knowing there were witnesses on her behalf. at this point she was confused and scared so she went to talk to the the teachers to ask what they had told the principles but she was just givin false testimony and shuned from the reality of everything that was going on.

the next day she had spocken to the union representative and the rep had told her to tell the story infront of him and she will listen even tho she didn't want to speack infront of him due to what happen the day prior. it seems like at this point he found ot that there were witnesses to the story so now he felt obligated to listen since my mother was already trying to seek a lawyer.



she was in a classroom when she was givin a call from the secretary asking her to come down and bring a letter that she had recieved that came from the principle. she had told the secretary that she will bring it on monday together with a diffrent form saying that she does not approve of it (call 1).

the secetary had then called back and told her that he said to come downstairs that he has a copy(trying to preasure her) and my mother said the same thing again (call2).

on the third call the principle was the one on the fone and yelled over the phone tellin her to "COME DOWN NOW"! three times. my mother had spocken upp and said to him that "I AM NOT A CHILD!! and then he repeated and yelled at her again over the phone "COME DOWN NOW!! two more times.

at this point she was puzzled and even more scared than she was before. she confessed to me that she was shocked and froze by the fone for a minute before actually going downstairs.

and when she finnaly did she was embarresed since she had the entire office starring at her. My mother has now recieved a letter from the principle talking about some kind of 3 yr punishment... which she didn't whant to sign but he had told her that she had to sign it with no disscusion he also threatined her saying because he is he supervisor and she didn't emidiatly respond to his calls that she could be out for a week without pay.

after he threatined her with that she asked him "do you think im happy whith the way you have been treating me, you are trying to get me fired so cruely with a case that wont even allow me to get bennifits". " IF THOSE TWO GIRL WOULDN"T HAVE BEEN THERE WHAT DO YOU THINK WOULD HAVE HAPPENED WITH ME"?? He replied "YOU ARE LUCKY"!

this principle is one thats known for terminating anyone who does not rub him the right way or who is not involved in his personal circle of trust.....please let me noe what actions can b takin against him, my mother has had health issues ever since and doesn't whant anyone to become another victim of his.....
 
From what you've posted, I don't believe your mother was treated unfairly. She ignored the principal's request to go to his office several times. Should he have yelled? No, but your mother should have gone to the office. She was insubordinate, and if she didn't get a letter for that, then she IS lucky.

I assume that the letter was a disciplinary letter for her personnel file regarding the incident with the student. In all teacher/para contracts I've seen, the principal was completely within his rights to place the letter in her file, and to expect her to sign it. Signing it only indicates that she has received it, not that she agrees with it. She can still submit her rebuttal to be attached to the disciplinary letter in her personnel file.

I also don't think there was any unfairness regarding the incident with the exception that he didn't listen to her explanation. On the other hand, he may have wanted to wait until she had a union rep available to witness the discussion. She has that right.

It's unfortunate that the child accused your mother of pushing her, but the teacher was not wrong to report it to the principal.

Another consideration is the child's IEP. It may outline specific methods of controlling behavior that your mother violated. Of course, neither you nor I have access to the IEP, so we don't know.

Finally, your mother was wrong to wipe soap on the child's clothing. That was not professional, and in my district it would absolutely result in suspension, and possibly termination.

Unfortunately, I don't think your mother has any legal options here. Even in union jobs (and especially school union jobs IMO), it isn't very difficult to find reason for termination just because your boss dislikes you.
 
ok thank you for your advice, but remember that this is a man who has wrongfully targeted and terminated people in the past.there was a time period were he would follow her around to to deliberatly haras her werever she went..sending her to one place and then to another and another and ect.... he would assign her to one child and bounce her back and forth until one point she had multipple children to para to when it should only be 1...is dat fair?? or even legal? i am still sure that there is some kind of legal option here, right now me and my mother are going to the hospital because ever since she has had trouble sleeping cause she only thinks about that. I truly believe that it has traumatized her in some kind of way and i feel soo bad for her. isn't there something that he is doing thats unproffesional?? there are cases were he almost got into physical confertations with school employees. overall i need to find something that can hold up in court cause if we dont react soon enough eventually he will find a way to cause her/ my family harm.
 
It all depends on what the IEPs say. Does your mother know what the IEPs of each of these students say? If the principal is violating the terms of the IEP, then he (or the district) can be reported to the New York State Board of Education. This is not a police matter, nor is it a matter that your mother can take to court.

The only option for your mother is to file a grievance with the union. She should talk with her union rep again. Or, she can find other employment.

I know you want to hear something else, but I don't see any grounds for a lawsuit.

Someone else may offer additional advice, so check back.
 
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