Article in Calvert Newspaper
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Coventry17
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From the article about the incident:
"Hodge claims his daughter was mistreated by the school nurse based on color. He said Bathsheba was given ice for the injury and sent back outside.
Hodge said her daughter was not asked in the nurses office if she wanted to lie down. He said ‘‘white” students occupied two of the beds at the time."
I don't think they'd make the claim if it weren't true, especially since it's so easily proven one way or the other. Again, I don't think there's any issue of race here. The parents are obviously a little squirelly, and they want to inject race as an issue. But, I do believe the school bears some responsibility for mishandling this initially.
"Hodge claims his daughter was mistreated by the school nurse based on color. He said Bathsheba was given ice for the injury and sent back outside.
Hodge said her daughter was not asked in the nurses office if she wanted to lie down. He said ‘‘white” students occupied two of the beds at the time."
I don't think they'd make the claim if it weren't true, especially since it's so easily proven one way or the other. Again, I don't think there's any issue of race here. The parents are obviously a little squirelly, and they want to inject race as an issue. But, I do believe the school bears some responsibility for mishandling this initially.
Coventry17
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cattitude said:
Why are you so ready to call the father a liar? I can almost guarantee you, if the child were held in the school nurse's office and the parents were called to come pick her up, there would have been no complaint made.
Coventry17
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cattitude said:
I agree
Coventry17
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cattitude said:
And you do?
Coventry17
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I agree that a lawsuit is ridiculous. Believe me, I am by no means in the parent's corner on this issue, per se. What I am saying is if the school had acted correctly at the start, none of this would have come to fruition. It's not the school's responsibility to diagnose. That's why a parent should have been called to pick the child up so that the parents could seek a medical diagnosis.
FastCarsSpeed
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Coventry17 said:
You do realize a broken arm and a broken wrist are two very different things???
With a broken wrist usually it's more of just a fracture to one or more of the bones. The wrist does NOT tend to swell for some goofy reason. (Guess not alot of tissue). I have met the nurse at the school and she doesn't seem to be someone that would shrug off an injury that easily. The girl probably had a fractured wrist and could still move it but was a little sore. wrist injuries go unnoticed sometimes.
As for this area being racially prejudiced, I think your nuts. I think its all over but people here will totally call BS when they don't think something is racially motivated.
johnjrval424
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Clarifications
First - the alleged incident happened at St. Leonard Elementary School.
What would lying down do to help a wrist?
If his daughter is told not to speak to the administration about the alleged incident, then how is the administration going to hear his daughter's side of the story? Probably because it wasn't as bad as the parents made it out to be.
Are we grasping at straws here? Is this the "REAL" issue - that the daughter's education, as a result of their homeschooling, wasn't up to par with her grade level and he took that as a personal insult?
Did this guy graduate from school? Isn't this statement a little
contradictory?
No kidding - maybe because every attorney he contacted told him he didn't have a case? That's what I'm thinkin...
First - the alleged incident happened at St. Leonard Elementary School.
What would lying down do to help a wrist?
If his daughter is told not to speak to the administration about the alleged incident, then how is the administration going to hear his daughter's side of the story? Probably because it wasn't as bad as the parents made it out to be.
Are we grasping at straws here? Is this the "REAL" issue - that the daughter's education, as a result of their homeschooling, wasn't up to par with her grade level and he took that as a personal insult?
Did this guy graduate from school? Isn't this statement a little
contradictory?No kidding - maybe because every attorney he contacted told him he didn't have a case? That's what I'm thinkin...
Coventry17 said:
I broke my wrist on Fourth of July when I was 11. We figured it was just a sprain, so I played for the rest of the day, went swimming and watched fireworks that night. It was still hurting when we left the fireworks, so my Ma took me to emergency to get it checked and sure enough, it was broken.FastCarsSpeed said:
I broke our Em's wrist (butt-launched her and she landed wrong) when she was little and we figured it was just a sprain. It was her Mom that took her in to get the x-ray a couple days later and found it was broken. So you just never can tell.
That said, one place you never want to be ever in your whole life is in an emergency room on Fourth of July.
Tina2001aniT
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Are we even sure that the nurse did not call home? My daughter goes to that school and she seems to like to go to the nurses office, and the nurse is FOREVER calling me. She will tell me exactly what A is complaining of and by the tone of her voice usually leads me to if I should pick A up or not. But then again my daughter is white, that must be why the nurse treats her so well, I forgot....
purplepassion
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My son goes to St. Leonard also. We have never had any problems with the school. My son always wants to go to school. We live in White Sands and they are many African American families in our neighborhood. My son plays with many of them and is best friends with one boy and often spends the night. Not once have I heard any of the other families complain about the school. If there had been any problems I am sure there would have been conversations going around with the parents.