This one student...
There is a boy that I have in one of my classes. We are going to call him George. I had some behavior trouble with this child early on, and we have since moved on from his temper tantrums in my class. He isn't the hardest worker, but when he is at school, he does try. However, he has some serious absence problems. He had 17 absences from the first 9 weeks, and then he was gone for an entire week last week. So I began to worry. When George came back after his week off, I asked him why he was gone. He informed me that he was working and he couldn't come to school. Now, this child is 11, so he has no business having a job. I didn't think that was the entire story though, so I told him we needed to talk to his mother. He doesn't have a phone at his house. Hmm, ok, well what is your address and I'll run up to your house during my prep and talk to her. Well, he says they aren't living at that house anymore.I got a bit suspicious at that point. I asked him where he was living and he told me that it had been changing every night, but tonight they were staying with a friend of his mom. He said the vice principal had more information about why he had been absent so much and that I should talk to him. So I did. Apparently, George's mother was beaten badly by her boyfriend and they are trying to hide from him. So they go to a different place every three or four days so he can't find them.
I decided that I really needed to go visit this mother, so after school yesterday I took George home. The school's resource officer came with us, just as a precautionary measure. I talked to the mom for quite some time, and she seemed genuinely afraid of her ex-boyfriend. She is also willing to work with us on getting George to school on a regular basis, and possibly forcing him to quit his job to focus more on school. Which was awesome.
She agreed to come into the school and fill out paperwork to file a restraining order on her ex-boyfriend, and she said she would also fill out the paperwork to get assistance to help her with George. Now, the school's resource officer and I have agreed that if she doesn't make it into the school for her appointment, we are going to seriously consider pulling George into protective custody. Seems drastic, but it needs to be done.
At the end of the day yesterday, I was emotionally drained.
posted by lobo5747 @ 8:13 AM
9 Comments:
Good post
Wish I had crowns and other sparkly prizes, but all I can do is say thank you for the service that you provide to America's youth. What you do is amazing. As a current student of middle grades education, I can only hope that I have as much courage and fortitude as you do in our chosen occupation. Thanks for writing about it too--certainly works as a reality check, to my romantic notions of children eager to learn and full of admiration for their wise, sage-like teacher...:)
Sad :(. What's his job, anyway?
Oh wow that is so sad.
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I'm glad you stepped up. I wouldn't just keep the protective custody card in your hand, though. The big challenge is for Mom to realize that she needs to take more definitive action than bobbing around while her abusive ex-boyfriend chases after her. The police should be involved, and she'll need the courage to call 'em up -- not wave a piece of paper in his face -- if something more heinous goes down. And that maybe she should seek some protection of her own.
That's pretty hard considering maybe some part deep inside of her is willing to withstand the abuse because she still loves him. And that needs to be aired out and discussed if you have a minute or two. She'll listen and she'll thank you.
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