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Nov. 13th, 2018 08:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
So.
In my last entry I had noted that the kid that was bullying Finn (and his friend) was out of the afterschool program now. Well, I have since learned that on Friday his friend tackled both Finn and his friend and grabbed them both by the neck and arm. And Finn's arm's bruised.
Worse, the daycare never told us what happened. Finn told us. And when I contacted the program they lied to me. They said that Finn hit the kid and the kid hit back. But the bruising on his arm is totally inconsistent with a hit and is consistent with a grab.
I am pissed.
And I contacted CPS and am taking steps to getting some alternative afterschool childcare.
In my last entry I had noted that the kid that was bullying Finn (and his friend) was out of the afterschool program now. Well, I have since learned that on Friday his friend tackled both Finn and his friend and grabbed them both by the neck and arm. And Finn's arm's bruised.
Worse, the daycare never told us what happened. Finn told us. And when I contacted the program they lied to me. They said that Finn hit the kid and the kid hit back. But the bruising on his arm is totally inconsistent with a hit and is consistent with a grab.
I am pissed.
And I contacted CPS and am taking steps to getting some alternative afterschool childcare.
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Date: 2018-11-14 02:57 am (UTC)Have you taken a photo of the bruise to show CPS?
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Date: 2018-11-14 03:12 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-11-14 05:05 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-11-14 07:03 pm (UTC)Here we have:
Kids are are harassing other kids routinely.
With little to no intervention.
Allowed the time and space to attack each other.
Once again with no intervention.
It is not reported to the parents.
When confronted, they have a story the runs counter with the physical evidence.
This does not sound like a safe environment.
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Date: 2018-11-14 07:54 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-11-14 07:05 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-11-15 01:11 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-11-26 01:39 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-11-15 02:23 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-11-26 01:45 am (UTC)Having been bullied pretty badly for 3 years (in middle school) I feel like bullying is really a form of abuse, just like domestic abuse. Because it is a pattern of behaviors to maintain power and control over someone else. Some bullying/abuse can be completely non-physical but still damaging, but it often escalates to being physical, as well as damaging property, threats of violence, etc. In some cases it can even get into sexual abuse.
In Finn's case, it did escalate to assault, but it also falls into a pattern where these two kids have been abusing him for over a year now, which has included threats to kill him and destroying him projects at the after school program.
And it has been allowed to go on because no one has stepped in to stop these two kids.
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Date: 2018-11-26 12:25 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-11-26 01:45 am (UTC)